Week 1:
Instructors will create a syllabus and a reading list which will be sent to trainees in advance. (July 26—July
31)
Week 2: Instruction (August 1-August 7)
Sunday Evening: Dinner reception and opening ceremony (6:00-9:00)
6:00 Dinner reception
7:30 Welcome, Rush Miller, Director, Summer Institute
7:45 Welcome, Hong Xu, Executive Director, Summer
Institute
8:00 Keynote speech “Research Trends of East Asian
studies and their challenges to East Asian librarians” Evelyn
Rawski, University Professor, Chinese History, University
of Pittsburgh
8:30 Keynote speech “Librarian training in the 21st
century” José-Marie Griffiths, Doreen E. Boyce Chair & Professor, School of Information
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
| Time |
8:30-11:30 |
1:00-4:00 |
4:00-5:00 |
| Mon. |
Collection Development I: Acquisition Practices, Publishing
Industry in China, Methods to Build a Quality Chinese Collection
(Tai-loi Ma)
|
History of Chinese Books and Printing
(Huanwen Cheng)
|
Self Study |
| Tue. |
Collection Development II: Principles of Collection Development,
Measurement, Resource Sharing, East Asian Collection and its
Relation with Parent Library
(Diane Perushek)
|
| Wed. |
Leadership, Library Management, Outreach, and Fund Raising
(Hua-wei Lee)
|
| Thu. |
Electronic Resource & Reference Tools for Chinese Studies
(Calvin Hsu)
|
| Fri. |
Trends of Scholarly Publishing and Digital Library Services in the New Century
(Peter Zhou) |
Library Instruction: The Best Practices (Amy Knapp) |
Week 3: Instruction (August 8—August 13)
| Time |
8:30-11:30 |
1:00-4:00 |
4:00-5:00 |
| Mon. |
Knowledge of Chinese Rare Books
(Ge Wu) |
Chinese Reference Works &
Bibliography
(Ge Wu and
Haihui Zhang)
|
Self Study |
| Tue. |
Cataloging and Preservation of Chinese Rare Book Collections
in the U.S
(Soren Edgren) |
| Wed. |
Metadata for Digital Information Organization
(Hong Xu)
|
| Thu. |
Technical Services: Cataloging and Authority Control of Chinese
Language Materials
(Abraham Yu)
|
| Fri. |
Trainees’ Project Presentations
(Hong Xu) |
Friday6:30-9:00 Dinner Reception &
Closing Ceremony
at Dynasty Chinese Restaurant in Cranbery.
Keynote Speaker: Rush Miller “Envisioning
Future Library Services for the Academic Community”
Closing: Hong Xu (Summary Report) |
Note:
Internship during the two-week instruction period can be provided
as part of class assignments.
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