2. Honoring Mr. Eugene Wu

It was suggested that OCLC CJK Users Group will prepare a letter honoring Eugene Wu. Abraham will ask Executive Board members acceptability of this idea. In the meanwhile, Hideyuki will draft a letter for Abraham's review. Then, since Eugene Wu himself may not be attending the upcoming OCLC CJK Users Group meeting to be held in D.C. but is still accessible through Harvard's electronic mail system, Abraham will send an electronic message informing him of the Group's intention of honoring him at the Group Meeting and asking him to designate and send his representative to the Meeting. A letter will be signed by Abraham, with co-signatures of those attending the Meeting.

3. OCLC CJK 3.0

Marty Withrow outlined OCLC's current plan with OCLC CJK 3.0. While records in the database itself will remain EACC-based for a while, OCLC CJK 3.0 will implement Unicode on the client side. Thus, Windows NT will be required to run the programme. This is a change in direction from the one as originally planned. Gary said that a letter with regard to necessity of Windows NT, rather than Windows 95, will be prepared and sent to the users.

Marty further said that, in order to respond to the OCLC CJK Users Group request for making the system function as local OPAC's with local data attached, OCLC now planned to make OCLC CJK 3.0 incorporate Z39.50 OPAC functionality. Through this scheme, as long as each local system stores 880 field data and provides Z39.50 server capability, users will be able to search through OCLC CJK 3.0 their own local system database and see CJK vernacular information together with local data, such as local notes, local call numbers, shelving locations, and circulation status.

Marty agreed to address the issue of Unicode at the Program Committee session. He further agreed to do demonstration of CJK 3.0 in development at the Group Meeting in Washington, D.C.

4. OCLC's Actions/Plans

Gary said that OCLC will be able to prepare a plaque and a certificate in recognition of Eugene Wu's contribution for delivery at the Group Meeting. This will be in addition to the Users Group recognition of Eugene Wu.

OCLC plans to proceed with further integration of CJK software with "main stream" programmes so that eventually OCLC CJK will become a part of Passport. OCLC CJK 3.0 is just a beginning of this integration effort. While a new price structure with the OCLC Access Suite was recently announced, OCLC will further examine this issue of pricing. CJK capability in CatME will be in the future development.

Additional Wine records will soon be loaded in WorldCat; and OCLC member libraries will be able to borrow materials from Waseda University Libraries through use of the OCLC ILL module.

The version of OCLC CJK incorporated in the OCLC Access Suite fixed the printing problem, but the authority exporting problem was not addressed in that version upgrade.

5. Issues to be Mentioned at the 1998 Users Group Meeting

Abraham informed Gary of issues that will be mentioned at the 1998 Users Group meeting. They are: Integration of CJK software with Passport for Windows; CJK Program Invitational Meeting; pinyin/Wade-Giles search/display on OCLC CJK; automated romanization of vernacular phrases; vernacular word processing functionality; and some linkage or synchronization between bibliographic records and authority records.

6. Users Group Meeting Presentation Logistics

PowerPoint files for use at the Users Group meeting should be submitted through Abraham beforehand to Gary so that they will be incorporated for seamless flow with OCLC's presentation files. Hideyuki will let Program Committee presenters know this and ask them whether they have other equipment needs.