Minutes:

1. 1999 OCLC CJK Users Group Meeting Agenda

Discussion was centered on the agenda for the 1999 OCLC CJK Users Group Annual Meeting to be held on Saturday, 13 March 1999 in Boston. The following was decided:

1) A General Membership Meeting will start with the Chair's Report by Yu, which will include: announcement of new Executive Board officer election results; introduction of outgoing as well as incoming Executive Board officers; and mentioning of Mr. Edward Martinique's retirement, in appreciation of his excellent service to the OCLC CJK Users Group as well as to East Asian studies librarianship in general.

2) The Chair's Report will be followed by OCLC's presentation of a token to each outgoing Executive Board officer in recognition of service. Yu will ask Houk to make necessary arrangements in this respect.

3) In view of the fact that RLG East Asian Studies Librarians' Forum will be open only to staff members at RLG member institutions, it was decided that a report from the Forum to be taken place on Friday, 12 March 1999, will be necessary. This 20-minute report session will be placed early in the morning so that the reporter will have ample time to rush to the CEAL Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop which will be held concurrently. Morimoto will make this report.

4) The Program Committee will follow the General Membership Meeting. Chou will further work on finalization of speakers, time allotment to each speaker, and exact topics. Chou provided a possible Program Committee Meeting schedule:

Representative from Kuo chia t'u shu kuan (China)
CIP and Cooperative Cataloging Program in Taiwan
20 minutes

Dr. Ching-chih Chen
[topic to be determined]
20 minutes

Representative from Chicago Public Library
Experience in Use of OCLC CJK 3.0 at Chicago Public Library
10-15 minutes

Ms. Daphne Wang
Experience in Use of OCLC CJK 3.0 at University of Oregon
10-15 minutes

5) Two hours, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., will be allocated to the OCLC Report session. Yu will communicate with Houk to inform him about this time assignment and ask him to make necessary arrangements within OCLC as to exact OCLC speakers, topics, and scheduling for this two-hour OCLC Report session. At the same time, Yu will also inform Houk that the following topics should be addressed in one way or the other:
- status of OCLC's follow-up actions with the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean electronic datafile lists that the Users Group submitted to OCLC;
- users' reaction to the vernacular search/display functionality through the Z39.50 program component within OCLC CJK 3.0, especially those sites that have successfully implemented this functionality;
- OCLC CJK activities outside North America;
- CJK training issues;
- Chinese record conversion within WorldCat in connection with LC's switch of romanization schemes from Wade-Giles to pinyin;
- CORC Internet cataloging project as it relates to CJK operations.