Reports from The Association for Asian Studies Committees

 

      Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA)  Subcommittee on Technical Processes

                                                 2007 Annual Meeting Minutes 

                    Thursday, March 22, 2007, 4-6 pm 

  Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Salon K 

                          Boston, MA         

                                                

I. Introductions and Announcements

Raymond Lum, Chair of CORMOSEA announced that CORMOSEA had been awarded funds by Southeast Asia Council for the Committee’s expenses including travel funds to send a member of CORMOSEA Subcommittee on Technical Processes to attend the ALCTS/CCS CC: AAM (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Cataloging and Classification Section, Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials) meeting at the annual ALA (American Library Association) conference and ALA Midwinter meeting.

Cheng Yen Khoo has been representing CORMOSEA at CC: AAM since May 2004.  She has attended two ALA Midwinter meetings in Boston in January 2005 and San Antonio in January 2006.  Her three-year term as the Southeast Asia representative will conclude at the ALA annual meeting in Chicago in June 2007. It is essential to have a CORMOSEA representative attend the two ALA annual meetings to keep up with the changes of cataloging and classification related to Southeast Asia technical services. Both Virginia Shih and Cheng Yen Khoo offered to decide between them who will represent CORMOSEA to attend the meetings.

II. Southeast Asia Cataloging Staffing and Projects Update   

University of California, Berkeley – Virginia Shih reported that the Library hired Southeast Asian students as language informants to work with cataloging staff on processing the Southeast Asia vernacular material.

University of California, Riverside – Kuei Chiu reported that Riverside has a temporary non-Southeast Asia oriented catalog librarian and a library assistant to help with cataloging.

Cornell University – Gregory Green reported that they are creating original cataloging records for Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese language material.University of Michigan – Susan Go reported that they can’t handle all the languages but do the best on the most important languages including Indonesian and Thai. They are also cataloging in Thai with