Day: July 23, 2008

肖珑接着讲评估。 Xiao continued her talk on assessment. She mentioned CNKI’s embargo issue, which cleared my mind about Dushu, whose 2008 issues are already in, but not the late 2007 ones. She used 中国图书馆学报 as a sample, which has already completely stopped with CNKI?! We have no clue. It’s really annoying for CNKI’s lack of transparency! It’s good to get Xiao’s opinion on some economic e-resources, but the comprehensive assessment fits in Beida better than UBC, for we have limited resources in Chinese. I’m looking forward to her session on service with digital resources.

李华维先生鼓励我们设定更高的目标，成为各校的知识管理权威，难呀！他的全部内容都是围绕着管理。我们在各校的职位虽然不一定权威，但是在当今日趋扁平的组织结构中，我们每个人都要管理一些项目，只是涉及到的人员多少的问题。我不认为自己有能力激励他人，但是 an excellent librarian!陈兄又没能按时下课，明天晚上又加了一堂。Copyright has been a tricky and sensitive issue to us, and lots of questions that may deserve an evening session. How do we know what we buy have copyright problems? CPL has pulled out all their Chinese DVDs.

Shi Chao’s PPT and the clips were snazzy. I could tell most of people didn’t really get what Duxiu is for without the hands-on, and how powerful it is. I am thinking to get Duxiu without Chinamaxx.

Dr. Fidel was already waiting by the entrance of Suzzallo, and we were busy talking and catching up with each other on the way to the Village. She insisted to treat me for we are in her place. I had the best food since I arrived in Seattle and the best talk. I would love to become elegant and understanding as Raya when I am getting old.

Xiao Long, AUL of Peking U, gave a practical and open lecture in the morning on e-resources and their usage at academic libraries in China. I found it very useful and will go through those that we don’t have, such as 新华在线、时代圣典, etc. My group is more interested in the comparison among the same type of databases and dissertations. I found it very refreshing to see the Open Access development in China. Most of the Chinese OA journals are not part of a larger aggregation, but are published independently. Relatively more OA journals are published in the fields of health sciences.

师兄陈传夫超紧张地开始，却兴奋地刹不住车。我们的问题实在太多啦，横跨中西、来自我们的工作实际操作，把陈兄忙得不亦乐乎，时间到了也丝毫没有给小柯让位的意思。Poor Mr. Ke, from CNKI, finally grabbed the instructor’s machine, and started the demo of the new personal digital library, while most of people still in the copyright mood. The setup is a bit complicated, but Yunshan, a real scholar next to me, thinks it’s useful once we go through its endless setup steps.史超walked into the lab like a student who’s late. Will be really interesting to listen to his session, since all the previous speakers mentioned about SuperStar.