Association for Asian Studies
Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA)
Subcommittee on Technical Processes
2002 Annual Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 7-9 p.m.
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Park Suite 8222
Washington, D.C.
Present: Gregory Green (Arizona), Fe Susan T. Go (Michigan),
Larry Ashmun (Wisconsin), Robin Paynter (Oregon), John Badgley (Washington), Raymond
Lum, Chan Phan (Harvard), Lian The-Mulliner (Ohio), Allen Riedy, Shintia Argazali
(Cornell), Richard Richie (Yale), Judy McDermott, Sirikanya B. Schaeffer, William
Tuchrello (Library of Congress), Virginia Jing-yi Shih (Recorder, Berkeley), Rohayati
Paseng Barnard (Chair, Hawaii), Yadi Yasin, Arifin Pramono, and Sheu Kuwok Liong
(Special guests from Library of Congress Jakarta Office).
I. Welcome and Introduction
II. Update on LC Southeast Asia Technical Services
- Arizona: Thai (outsourced to OCLC Techpro), copy cataloging.
- Berkeley: Hired a South/Southeast Asia cataloging assistant
to perform copy cataloging for South and Southeast Asian materials. Created
original Vietnamese cataloging records upon requests only.
- Cornell: 3 FTE original catalogers (Indonesian, Thai and
Vietnamese), 3 inputters for descriptive cataloging.
- Harvard: Perform copy cataloging, Vietnamese backlog in process.
- Hawaii: Hired a new cataloger without Southeast Asian language
expertise to perform Southeast Asian original cataloging, significant mainland
Southeast Asia cataloging backlog. An original cataloging is taking Thai language.
- Michigan: Thai and Vietnamese original cataloging; hired
students to help with Burmese and Indonesian cataloging.
- Ohio: The Southeast Asia cataloger, Swee-lan Quah has retired.
A job announcement will be posted for recruiting a cataloger with Indonesian/Malay
language expertise.
- Oregon: Thai, Vietnamese (outsourced to OCLC TechPro)
- University of Washington: A halftime Vietnamese cataloger
conducts Vietnamese cataloging, graduate students are hired to perform Thai
and Indonesian copy cataloging.
- Yale: The Southeast Asia cataloger has resigned since October
2001. A job announcement has been posted to recruit a Southeast Asia cataloger.
Two cataloging assistants perform Thai, Vietnamese and Tagalog copy cataloging.
III. Recommended Subject Headings, Name Changes (such as Irian Jaya to
Papua, Ujung Pandang to Makassar)
Rohayati Paseng Barnard has agreed to serve as the funnel coordinator and follow up with Lynn M. El-Hoshi at the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office on CORMOSEA subject heading proposals that Virginia Shih forwarded to CORMOSEA in 1999. Any final proposals submitted to the Library of Congress will be sent to CORMOSEA listserv for information sharing.
IV. UNICODE
Allen Riedy, William Tuchrello, and Rich Richie commented briefly on UNICODE. Robin Paynter indicated that there were sporadic initiatives out there, however, there were still no well-coordinated projects that were specifically focused on Southeast Asian vernacular languages.
V. Download LC Thai Records Demo
Due to technical difficulties, Yadi Yasin was unable to conduct the web-based demo on downloading LC Thai records but will offer the demo at the Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Program Southeast Asia meeting on April 4, 2002.
VI. CAPSEA Updates
William Tuchrello addressed the question if CAPSEA (Cooperative Acquisitions Program for Southeast Asia) could provide bibliographic records for CAPSEA institutions from Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. Field offices do not directly provide cataloging records and send to bibliographic utility. Only descriptive cataloging records are offered. Thai and Lao bibliographic records are created at LC New Delhi Office.
CAPSEA plans to offer Thai records under CAPSEA webpage instead of bibliographic cataloging paper records.
Overall cataloging at CAPSEA Jakarta Office:
- In-process records include fixed and variable fields and a summary note.
- 15-20% cataloging title increase each year.
- Focus no more than 3 months backlog, tremendous reduction lag time.
- Produced Chinese romanized records 100-150 titles per year.
VII. Technical Aspects of Myanmar Digital Library
John Badgley referred to the proposal of "Virtual Library of Near East and Southeast Asia" that he sent to CORMOSEA listserv. This proposal will serve as a reference base for the Myanmar Digital Library in terms of Burmese language expertise and technical expertise. It is hoped that the proposal will be funded and it would become a CORMOSEA project.
