“Get the Champagne out of the Bottle":
China-North America Library
Conference and
Post-Conference Initiative
Annual Meeting of the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section (AAMES) of
the Association of Colleague and Research Libraries (ACRL)
New Orleans, LA
June 25, 2011
Anchi Hoh, Ph.D.
Special Assistant To The Chief
Asian Division, Library of Congress
202-707-5673, adia@loc.gov
March 29, 2011
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• “Get the champagne out of the bottle”
- Librarian of Congress Dr. James H.
Billington
• Further human understanding and wisdom
by sharing the unparalleled treasures of
the Library with people everywhere.
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China-North America Library
Conference Background
• The first China-US Library Conference,
organized by the National Library of China
and the American Library Association, was
held in Beijing in August 1996, prior to the
62nd IFLA Congress.
• The 2nd Conference was held in Flushing,
New York and Washington D.C in August
2001 with the theme of Strategic Policy
Directions for China/US Library Cooperation.
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China-North America Library
Conference Background
• The 3rd Conference was held in Shanghai in March 2005,
sponsored by the National Library of China, the Library
Society of China, American Association of Research Libraries,
the Library of Congress, and hosted by Shanghai Library.
– Topics: Digital resources construction and services,
theories and practices in information and knowledge
management, research in patrons’ requirements and
utilizing behavior, the core value of digital library and its
realization, and cooperation in knowledge management
and service in both countries.
• The 4th Conference took place in October 2007, OCLC
headquarter, Dublin, Ohio, jointly organized by the National
Library of China, the Library Society of China, Library of
Congress and Association of Research Libraries.
– Theme: Cooperation Among Libraries, Museums, and
Archives Within and Between China and the United States.
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China-North America Library Conference
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The Fifth China-North America Library Conference in
Beijing, China, September 2010, aimed to identify postconference initiatives that are mutually beneficial.
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China-North America Library Conference
• Scope
– To enhance the mutual exchange, strengthen the
digital sharing, and meet the challenges both the
Chinese and American libraries facing in this field.
• Mission
– To promote the profound research and exploration in
digital resources sharing, and to further mutual
exchanges and cooperation.
• Hosts
– National Library of China, the Library Society of China
and the Library of Congress, USA.
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Current North America Organizing
Committee
Members
Deanna Marcum
Associate Librarian for Library Services
Library of Congress
Jay Jordan
President and Chief Executive Officer
OCLC
James K. M. Cheng
Librarian
Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard
College Library
Harvard University
Haipeng Li
University Librarian
Au Shue Hung Memorial Library
Hong Kong Baptist University
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital
Programs and Hodson Director of the
Digital Research and Curation Center
Eisenhower Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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Ingrid T. Parent
University Librarian
Office of the University Librarian
University of British Columbia
Gary E. Strong
University Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles
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Current North America Organizing
Committee
Members (Cont’d)
Betsy Wilson
Dean of University Libraries
University of Washington Libraries
Ethan Zuckerman
Berkman Fellow & Technologist
Global Voices
Senior Advisors
Peter R. Young
Former Director, National
Agricultural Library
Former Chief, Asian Division
Library of Congress
Franklin Odo
Chief
Asian Division
Library of Congress
Sha Li Zhang
Assistant Dean for Collections and
Technical Services
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Anchi Hoh
Assistant Chief
Asian Division
Library of Congress
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Conference Theme
• Theme
– Sharing Digital Resources: Challenges and
Opportunities
• Participants
– Experts and scholars from
North American libraries,
Chinese public libraries,
university libraries,
research libraries, etc
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Highlights of Dr. Marcum’s
Keynote Speech
• Vision:
– A vision of the Global Digital Library created by the Council of
Directors of National Libraries (CDNL). CDNL, which is chaired
by Penny Carnaby, director of the New Zealand National Library,
has initiated a project to develop a Global Digital Library. The
CDNL initiative is intended to produce a distributed library,
through which national libraries would expose metadata for
digital library objects of all kinds for harvesting. The “long-term
vision” is as follows:
“…the development of a global distributed digital library -–
comprehensive, open, seamlessly-connected, and
universally accessible on the Internet –- giving ready
access to library materials in the collections of all the
national libraries of the world….”
(“CDNL Vision for the Global Digital Library,” http://www.cdnl.info/ accessed 2 August 2010.)
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Highlights of Dr. Marcum’s
Keynote Speech
• Libraries have traditionally provided
opportunities for patrons to connect with
resources and services where creative
intellectual, educational, and
entertainment activities thrive. The
library’s guiding concept has been as a
place where all are free to pursue their
interests.
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Five Sub-Themes
• Resource Sharing Policies and
Perspectives
• Digital Infrastructure and Repository
Technology
• Research Data Sharing
• Sharing Digital Preservation Methods
• Shared Digital Access, Retrieval and Use
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Sub-Theme 1
Resource Sharing Policies and Perspectives
• Issues and topics include:
– Policies to facilitate bilateral collaboration
• Open content access, open service standards
– Digital content acquisition and sharing policies, structures, and
procedures
• Provisions for special collections and for geospatial content,
rare books, audio-visual materials, etc.
• Provisions for multimedia content
• Perspectives for digitally reformatted and born digital content
– Intellectual property rights
• Content ownership and access/use policies for sharing digital
resources
• Digital resource access licenses
• Use restrictions for sharing digital resources
– Multi-type institutional collaboration
• Models of digital resource sharing and development
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Sub-Theme 1 Speakers
• Zhang Yanbo
Director of the National Cultural Information Resources
Sharing Management Center
• Carole Moore
Chief Librarian
University of Toronto Libraries
• Paul F. Uhlir
Director, NRC Board on Research Data and Information
The National Academy of Sciences
• N.Am. Co-Moderator: Gary E. Strong, University Librarian,
University of California, Los Angeles
• N.Am. Co- Recorder: James Cheng , Librarian, HarvardYenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard
University
• Participant: Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University
Librarian, Cornell University
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Sub-Theme 2
Digital Infrastructure and Repository
Technology
• Technical repository infrastructure requirements
– Interoperable architecture
– Digital content transfer, validation, verification, and
management
• Format management and metadata standards
– Metadata schema and standards
• Trusted long-term planning for scholarly
communication
– Authentication and verification
• Maintenance, administration, and security issues
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Sub-Theme 2 Speakers
• Zhu Qiang
Professor & Director, Peking University Library
• Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of
the Digital Research and Curation Center, Eisenhower Libraries,
Johns Hopkins University, USA
• He Defang
Director of the Institute of Science and Technology Information of
China
• Peter R. Young
Former Director, National Agricultural Library and former Chief,
Asian Division, Library of Congress, USA
• N.Am. Co-Moderator: Ingrid Parent, University Librarian, Office of
the University Librarian,University of British Columbia
• N.Am. Co-Recorder: Haipeng Li, University Librarian, Au Shue
Hung Memorial Library, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Participant: Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Libraries
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Sub-Theme 3
Research Data Sharing
• Data-driven research services
• Unique identifiers for digital data and
information content
– Linking data with publication information
• Management of compound digital objects
– Static and dynamic digital content objects
– Linking distributed digital data content
• Multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
trans-disciplinary research data sharing
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Sub-Theme 3 Speakers
• Xiao Ximing
Professor, the department head and PhD supervisor of Library
Science Department at School of Information Management, Wuhan
University
• Christine L. Borgman
Presidential Chair & Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, USA
• Jiang Ying
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Library
• Lee Dirks
Director, Education & Scholarly Communication, External Research
Microsoft Corporation
• N.Am. Co-Moderator: Isabel Stirling, Associate University
Librarian, University of California, Berkeley
• N.Am. Co-Recorder: Anchi Hoh, Assistant Chief, Asian Division,
Library of Congress
• Participant: Peter Zhou, Assistant University Librarian, Director,
C.V. Starr East AsianLibrary, University of California , Berkeley
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Sub-Theme 4
Sharing Digital Preservation Methods
• Long-term preservation, access, and
sustainability
– Data conservation, curation and preservation
• Digital preservation technology methods
– Digital transfer and migration
• Long-term digital archiving
• Collaborative cooperation
• Workforce development
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Sub-Theme 4 Speakers
• Zhang Zhiqing
Deputy Director of the National Library of China
• Richard E.Luce
Vice Provost and Director, Emory University Libraries, USA
• Liu Xiaoqing
Associate Librarian of Zhejiang Library
• Thomas Garnett
Associate Director for Digital Library and Information Systems,
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, USA
• N.Am. Co-Moderator: Nancy Cline, Roy E. Larsen Librarian of
Harvard College, Harvard University Libraries
• N.Am. Co-Recorder: Zhijia Shen, Director, East Asia Library,
University of Washington
• Participant: Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
• Participant: Yuan Zhou, Curator for East Asian Collection and
Director of Public Services (Interim)
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Sub-Theme 5
Shared Digital Access, Retrieval and Use
• Explore, search, discover, retrieve issues
– Classification and tagging
– Semantic web
• Reuse and repurposing of digital content
– Provenance
• User surveys
• Multi-language access and retrieval
• Social networking applications
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Sub-Theme 5 Speakers
• Li Lijun
Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Archives
• Kevin Guthrie
President of ITHAKA, USA
• Xiao Fei
Director of the Information Network Department of National Museum
of China
• Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC, USA
• N.Am. Co-Moderator : Jay Jordan, President and Chief Executive
Officer, OCLC
• N.Am. Co-Recorder : Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for
Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Participant: Martin Gomez, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public
Library
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Observers
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Larry Alford
Dean of University Libraries, Temple
University Libraries, Samuel Paley Library
Albert Hoffstädt
Publishing manager & senior editor, Asian
Studies, Brill
Charles James Horton III
Senior Vice President, Managing Director of
East Asia Pacific, ProQuest
Shuyong Jiang
Project Director, IMLS Funded TGAG ChinaUS Library Collaboration Project, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alice Keller
Editorial Director, Library and Information
Science & History
De Gruyter Saur
Kent Lee
President and CEO, East View Information
Services
Deborah Loeding
H.W. Wilson Company
Tai-loi Ma
Curator, East Asian Library and Gest
Collection, Princeton University
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Frank Menchaca
Executive Vice President, Publishing, Gale,
A part of Cengage Learning
Robert Seal
Dean of Libraries, Loyola University
Libraries, Loyola University
Fucheng Shen
Chief Representative, Ex Libris Beijing
Representative Office
Winston Tabb
Sheridan Director and Dean of University
Libraries, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library,
Johns Hopkins University
Sharlene Tilley
Executive Director, International Marketing,
ProQuest
Andrew H. Wang
Vice President, Asia Pacific Region, OCLC
Online Computer Library Company
Jidong Yang
Head, Asia Library, University of Michigan
Hugo Zhang
Managing Director, Elsevier S&T in China,
Reed Elsevier Information Technology
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POST-CONFERENCE
INITIATIVE
• “China-North America Collaboration on
Chinese Rare Book Digitization and
Metadata Sharing.”
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PROJECT PROPOSAL
• Project Goal:
- Through the assistance and collaboration
of rare book subject experts and repository
technology experts in China and North
America, to create a national digital
repository of the comprehensive holdings
of Chinese rare books among the East
Asian libraries in North America.
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COLLABORATION
• To achieve this goal, this project calls for a
broad collaboration among the East Asian
libraries in North America.
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INVITATIONS TO 13 EAST ASIAN
LIBRARIES IN NORTH AMERICA
• Harvard-Yenching Library at
Harvard University
• Asian Division at the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C.
• Gest Oriental Collection and
East Asian Library at Princeton
University
• East Asian Library at the
University of British Columbia
• University of California,
Berkeley
• Columbia University
• University of Toronto
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Yale University
Cornell University
New York Public Library
University of Chicago
University of Washington
University of California, Los
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• Stanford University
• other East Asian collections in
North America that also hold
Chinese rare books
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DRAFT PROPOSAL
• Initial progressive implementation plan that
consists of at least the following two phases:
• Phase I
Conducting an online survey of the holdings of
Chinese rare books among the thirteen East
Asian collections in North America.
• This survey will be able to inform the number of
Chinese rare book titles that need cataloging and
call for the assistance of subject experts in China.
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DRAFT PROPOSAL
• Phase II –
Identify a number of East Asian partnering
libraries to convene an initial meeting and
discuss collaboration. Discussion topics
should include best practices, collaboration
model, funding resources, cataloging
solutions, metadata standards sharing, and
other potential partners, etc.
• This core group (library directors and key
curators) will be invited by Dr. Marcum to
convene a Steering Committee.
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Steering Committee
• Role and Responsibilities
– Report to the North America Organizing Committee
– Hold regular teleconferences to explore collaboration
model and ensure steady progress; communicate via
email and meetings
– Using the current proposal, create project
management documents, including scope,
collaboration model, budget, funding, measures of
success, roles and responsibilities, milestones,
deliverables, risk assessment, work breakdown
structure, communication plan, etc.
– Design detailed implementation plans and involve all
participating libraries in order to pursue the successful
completion of the project.
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NEXT STEPS
• Undoubtedly, such broad-extent undertaking of
the digital preservation of Asian cultural heritage
across North America is unprecedented and
requires extremely thorough planning and
tireless pursuit. A number of institutions
(including Cornell, OCLC, and UBC) have
expressed their strong interest and support.
• This project will be mutually beneficial not only
for the East Asian libraries in North America and
participating academic/research libraries in
China, but also for the scholarly communities
everywhere.
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Questions and Answers
Thank you.
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