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LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program a Progress Report

LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program a Progress Report. by Joy Kim Chair, Subcomittee on LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program. Goal. To Provide training opportunities to CEAL members who don’t have training support from their employers. Partners.

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LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program a Progress Report

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  1. LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Programa Progress Report by Joy Kim Chair, Subcomittee on LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program

  2. Goal To Provide training opportunities to CEAL members who don’t have training support from their employers

  3. Partners • CEAL: Recruit applicants and Provide scholarship ($500 per intern up to three interns per year) • Library of Congress: Provide training materials, workspace, and training by experienced catalogers • Interns (and/or their Employers): Support for travel, accommodations, and meals

  4. Selection Guidelines(developed by the CEAL Executive Board) The Applicant: • Is a CEAL member • Has no CJK colleague or training support in-house • Works for a library with fewer than 50,000 CJK titles • Has less than two years of professional cataloging experience • Graduated from library school within the past 3 years • Has limited language proficiency for the materials s/he catalogs

  5. Subcommittee Members • Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia) • Abraham Yu (UC Irvine) • Joy Kim (USC), Chair

  6. Charge for the Subcommittee • Recruit Applicants • Recommend Finalists to LC • Oversee the Program • Recommend whether to continue the program or not

  7. Three Applications Received • Asako Yoshida: Reference Librarian/ Bibliographer at the University of Manitoba, Canada, which has 1,000 CJK titles. Spends 15% time on cataloging Japanese & Chinese. • Yuimi Kanno: 2 years cataloging experience, no CJK. Works for the Jefferson County Public Library, Co., which is expanding anime and manga collections • Shelley Wei Ching Sii: 2 years cataloging experience, 2006 graduate. Works for the Logos Evangelical Seminary, Ca., which has 12,000 Chinese books

  8. Subcommittee Recommendation Subcommittee submitted all three applicants with the following considerations: • The applicants are enthusiastic for the program & eager to learn CJK cataloging; • Have great potential to improve their cataloging skills regardless their current level; • Have no training support in-house; • The training will be an investment in the future CJK workforce, especially for Japanese

  9. LC’s Decision LC offered the internship positions to all three • Yuimi Kanno of the Jefferson County Public Library, Co., will intern this summer for a month • Shelley Wei Ching Sii wishes to intern next year • Asako Yoshida’sinternshipmay be delayed until 2008

  10. Subcommittee’s Future Role • Two-year trial program—one more cycle • Monitor the progress and make a recommendation at the end of the trial period

  11. That’s All! Direct Questions or Comments to: Philip Melzer Hideyuki Morimoto Abraham Yu Joy Kim Mary Lin (Chair, TCP)

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