8:30-8:35 a.m.         Welcome and Chair Report – Hsi-chu Bolick

8:35-8:40 a.m.         Bylaws amendment – Ken Klein

8:40-8:45 a.m.         Election results – Karen Wei

8:45-10:30 a.m.       Emerging library practices for managing East Asian collections in North America

8:45-8:55 a.m.         Vendor Records: A Brief Survey 

  Karen Wei, Head, Asian Library University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

I.                   Technical Services:

A: Use of vendor records in acquisitions & cataloging

8:55-9:10 a.m.      Outsourcing Cataloging (Chinese & Japanese records): The Experience of the East Asian Library, University of California Berkeley

                              Evelyn Kuo, Head of Technical Services, East Asian Library, University of  California at Berkeley

9:10-9:20 a.m.        Japanese Vendor Cataloging: Yale's Case

Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Catalog Librarian, Yale University

9:20-9:30 a.m.        The Library of Congress' Experience with Vendor Cataloging of CJK Materials 

Philip Melzer, Acting Chief, Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division, 

Library of Congress            

9:30-9:40 am.        Questions

                               B:  E-book acquisitions & cataloging                

9:45-9:55 a.m.         Acquiring Chinese E-Books: Where to Start and How to Get Here–University of Pittsburgh Library's experience

Hong Xu, Head of East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh

9:55-10:05 a.m.        Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what? -- Options to provide catalog access to e-books   

Shi Deng, Head, CJK Acquisitions/Cataloging Unit, Metadata Services, University of California at San Diego

10:05-10:15 a.m.      Questions

                              II. Expanding library service with:

10:15-10:30 a.m.      First Search / Open WorldCat / WorldCat.org

David Whitehair, Connexion Client Product Manager, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

10:30-11:30 a.m.      OCLC Update

Andrew Wang, Executive Director OCLC Asia Pacific Services & New Initiatives

11:30-12:00 p.m.      Break (light lunch)

 OCLC Connexion Overview

12:00 -2:00 p.m.   

• David Whitehair, Connexion Client Product Manager OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
• Sarah Elman, Associate Curator, East Asia Library, Yale University
• Teresa Mei, East Asian Catalog Librarian, Cornell University Library

Connexion Overview Session will focus on helping RLIN21 users with their migration to Connexion client. 

 David Whitehair, Connexion client product manager, OCLC, will present an overview of the CJK-related functionality 

 of Connexion client, including new features that were added to the Connexion client 1.70 release in December.  

Sarah Elman, Associate Curator, East Asia Library, Yale University, and Teresa Mei, East Asian Catalog Librarian, 
Cornell University will share some of their experiences with migrating from RLIN21 to Connexion client.
 
We will have plenty of time for discussion! 
Even if you already use Connexion client, we welcome you to attend this session, 
join in the discussions,and share your experiences with Connexion client which will help RLIN21 users 
to plan their migration.  

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 Minutes

Welcome and Chair Report – Hsi-chu Bolick, Chair

Hsi-chu Bolick, Chair, convened the meeting at 8:30 a.m.  Ms. Bolick welcomed all the participants and opened the annual meeting.
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Bylaws Amendment – Ken Klein

With a notable of increasing Users Group members in 2007, the Bylaws was reviewed and an amendment was proposed to Article IV – Officers (6), by deleting current language “a member-at-large” and replacing it with “two members-at-large.”  Mr. Klein, immediate past-chair of the Users Group, brought the amendment to the floor for voting.  The amendment was approved.

Election results – Karen Wei, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect

Karen Wei served as chair of the Nominating Committee which consists of: Ai-Lin Yang, Hiroyuki Good and Jaeyong Chang.  Ms. Wei announced the election results. The incoming officers for 2007-2009 will be:

Chair: Karen Wei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Sharon Domier, University of Massachusetts in Amherst
Chinese Officer: Sarah Elman, Yale University
Japanese Officer: Setsuko Noguchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Korean Officer: Hyokyoung Yi, University of Washington
Member-at-Large: Wooseob Jeong, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Member-at-Large: Shuyong Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Use of vendor records in acquisitions & cataloging, Presentations

Vendor Records: a Brief Survey – Karen Wei
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Outsourcing Cataloging (Chinese & Japanese records): the Experience of the East Asian Library, University of California Berkeley – Evelyn Kuo  

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Japanese Vendor Cataloging: Yale's case – Keiko Suzuki

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Report on Vendor Cataloging of CJK Material at LC – Philip Melzer 

Click for Remarks

E-book acquisitions & cataloging                

Acquiring Chinese E-Books: Where to Start and How to Get Here-University of Pittsburgh Library's experience – Hong Xu

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Once you acquire thousands e-books, then what? -- Options to provide catalog access to e-books – Shi Deng, University of California at San Diego 

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Expanding library service with