Executive Board Meeting 1995

April 6, 1995
Thursday, April 6, 1995
Lobby Restaurant
Washington Hilton and Towers Hotel
Washington, DC

Minutes

Present:

James Cheng, Joy Kim, Hisako Kotaka, Karl Lo, Ed Martinique, Andrew Wang, and Abraham Yu.

The meeting was called to order by James Cheng at 8:15 p.m. Refreshments were provided by Andrew Wang. Mention was made of the topics prepared for the general membership meeting to be held the next day.

I. Election Results

The officers present tallied the ballots for the next Executive Group. The results were recorded to inform the membership at the meeting the following day.

II. General Membership Meeting

Karl Lo will speak about the need to popularize and broaden the application of OCLC CJK. Some points made were: the friendliness of the software, the lowering of prices, advances in searching techniques leading from library technical services to public services. Although machine-readable cataloging relies on a plurality of internal codes, all different from EACC, the Users Group should try to link up with the more than 400 members of OCLC in the Asia-pacific region. Lo remarked that the potential for coorperation was still very much viable; the Unicode will make OCLC a truly international utility. Kotaka said that by refining its search techniques OCLC was moving more and more from technical applications into public services. Cheng opined that the new software should provide character displays for all uses, not just for cataloging. If OCLC would canvas the library field to learn what it desired, it then could move to furnish solutions to answer these desires. Kotaka emphasized the importance of OCLC searches being possible using a regular PC in an academic background.

Wang said printed copies of the annual report would be distributed at the general meeting . He would report on the bugs that were found in the new CJK PRISM system. OCLC had investigated the technical problems, some of which were external to the Center. The bugs that were prevalent were fixed. The lengthy connecting time was less a technical issue than one of the member usage. PRISM uses a central processing unit that must work for thousands of libraries. Validation has become more complex; it is not really a fault in the system. It was suggested that the working relationship between the OCLC CJK Users Group and the RLG CJK Users Group should become closer.

Abraham Yu said he would give the final report of the CCC Non-Roman Core Recod Task Group. (See Appendix 1 to these minutes.)

Amy Tsiang was scheduled next to report on the experiences in using the OCLC CJK Plus PRISM system at the UCLA East Asian Library. (Her report was published in CEAL Bulletin no.106 (June 1995) on pages 35-38.)

Yu would then report on the enhancement and linkage of the Name Authority File with the bibliographic database. (His report was published in CEAL Bulletin no.106 (June 1995) on pages 1 to 17.

Lo will then open the meeting to discussion. He closed the Executive Board meeting just before 11:00 p.m.

(Recorded and respectfully submitted by Ed Martinique)