Meeting Reports: Open Meeting 2006 in San Francisco

Yerba Ballroom, San Francisco Marriott, on Friday, April 7, 2006, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

• Welcome and Introductory Remarks:
  Toshie Marra, NCC Chair
• Remarks in Memory of Dr. Donald Howard Shively:
  Amy Heinrich, Columbia University
• Report on NCC Chair-Elect Election:  Presentation Text (PDF)
  Sachie Noguchi, Chair, Nominating Committee for the Chair-Elect Position
• Report on Global ILL Framework (GIF) and ILL/DD Committee Activities:
  Sharon Domier, Co-Chair, and Chiaki Sakai, ILL/DD Committee, and Ikuo Sasakawa, and Osamu Inoue, GIF Project Team, Committee on International Scholarly Communication, Japan Association of National University Libraries
• Report on Multi-Volume Sets (MVS) Project 2005/2006:
  Haruko Nakamura, Co-Chair, MVS Committee
• Report on Japan Art Catalog (JAC) Project Western Art Catalog Collection:
  Amy Heinrich, Columbia University
• Update and Future Plans of NCC's E-Resource Training Initiative:
  • Electronic Resource Training Workshops:
    Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director
  • Information Literacy Resources Homepage: Knowledge Mine for Information Literacy in Japanese Studies:
    Tokiko Bazzell, E-Resource Webpage Coordinator, and Yoko Okunishi, NCC Staff
• 2005 Japan Foundation-National Diet Library Training Program for Information Specialists for Japanese Studies:
  Dawn Lawson, New York University, and Fabiano Rocha, University of Toronto
• Digital Resources Committee (DRC) Update and Discussion on Current Issues Regarding Japanese Digital Resources:
  Tomoko Steen and Robert Britt, Co-Chairs, and Members of the DRC
• What Can CiNii & Webcat Plus Do?
  Ayano Hattori and Mai Sekido, Contents Division, National Institute of Informatics
• New Stage of the Digital Library of the National Diet Library of Japan: Digitization of Japanese Books and Digital Archive Portal: Presentation Text (PDF)
  Kazuharu Honda, Assistant Director, Book Service Division, Public Services Department, National Diet Library
• Hojinka: The Evolving Information Environment in Japan:
  Tokiko Bazzell, NCC Chair-Elect