Transcript CEAL 2011 - Simon - The Council on East Asian Libraries

Cooperation in Constricting Times
Models and Prospects
The Center for Research Libraries
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Global Resources Network
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
A shared collection of 5 million books, journals, archives,
documents, and newspapers
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
A shared collection of 5 million books, journals, archives,
documents, and newspapers
Communities of interest identifying and sharing information
about critical and at-risk source materials
Coordinated Collections
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Cooperative Resource Development
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Collaborative Programs
Coordinated Collections
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• On average, CEAL members are collecting only
a fraction of recorded monographic output
• Collecting is relatively static, while production
continues to increase
• 27% of collecting is held by 10+ libraries
Cooperative Collection Development
• LARRP Distributed Resources Program
• South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program
workshop
– Korean Collections Consortium
Cooperative Acquisitions
• CRL Purchase Proposal Program
• Shared Purchase
– NCC Multi-Volume Sets Project
Recent Purchase Proposal Acquisitions
• Shanghai Political and
Economic Reports, 1842-1943
• Chinese Filmscript and
Advertisement Collection
1946-1985
• Shi shi Xin Bao (The China
Times [Shanghai]) 1911- 49
Shared Purchase Acquisitions
• China Inland Mission, Pts 1-2
• British Intelligence on China
in Tibet, 1900-1951
Cooperative Resource Development
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Cooperative Digitization
• World Newspaper Archive
• LLMC-Digital
• French / Cuban pamphlet projects
– World Digital Library
– Chinese Rare Books digitization
World Newspaper Archive
World Newspaper Archive
• Interest in East Asian module(s)?
– Community governed
– Community-sourced content
– Archiving provisions being put in place
English Language Newspapers
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Canton Register
Celestial Empire (Shanghai)
China Mail (Hong Kong)
China Press (Shanghai)
Hong Kong Daily Press
Hong Kong Telegraph
North-China Daily News
North-China Herald
South China Morning Post
[1827-1843]
[1874-1927]
[1845-1968]
[1914-1949]
[1864-1941]
[1881-1951]
[1855-1951]
[1850-1941]
[1904-2009]
Chinese Language Newspapers
• Beijing ri bao (北京日報)
[1956-1968]
• Da gong bao (大公報)
[1929-1966]
• Hua zi ri bao (華字日報)
= The Chinese mail
[1895-1940]
• Nanfang ri bao (南方日報)
[1949-1969]
• Shen bao (申報)
[1872-1949]
• Shi bao (時報) (Shanghai)
[1909-1937]
• Shun tian shi bao (順天時報)
[1901-1926]
Law Library Microform Consortium
Digital Collections and Services at
CRL
• CRL strategic goal: providing research and
teaching resources in digital format
• In-house conversion: over 700,000 pages/yr
• Strategic Digitization Programs: 1.5m 2009
Chinese Pamphlets
Political communication and mass education in the early period of
the People's Republic of China
Collaborative Programs
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Area “Microform” Projects
CAMP
– Cooperative Africana Materials Project
LAMP
– LAMP
MEMP
– Middle East Microform Project
SAMP
– South Asia Microform Project
SEAM
– Southeast Asia Microform Project
SEEMP
– Slavic & East European Microform Project
GRN Projects
– Collaborative Initiative for French Language
Collections
– Cooperative African Newspapers Project
– Digital South Asia Library
– German-North American Resources Partnership
– Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
– International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
GRN Projects: DSAL
• Digital materials for reference and research on
South Asia
– South Asia Union Catalogue
– Linguistic Survey of India gramophone recordings
– Journal preservation / indexing
GRN Projects: GNARP
• Consortial purchase/subscription to Germanlanguage databases
– World Biographical Information System (WBIS)
– DigiZeitschriften (“German JSTOR”)
– Brockhaus / Duden Encyclopaediae
Community
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Thank You
James Simon
Director, Global Resources Network
[email protected]