Nathalie Monnet explains that the Oriental Section of the Manuscript division will receive new storage space and a new reading room. Monique Cohen has become director of the Département des Manuscrits. Nathalie Monnet is working on a catalogue of rubbings, 3000 titles will be included.

Nicolas Gorelov explains that the Chinese collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Science was not damaged by the fire that destroyed 1/3 of the collection 15 years ago. The collection on European materials on China, however, was destroyed. They are working on a catalogue of Chinese-Russian relations since the 18^th century. A catalogue of translations from Chinese into Russian was completed (including the lost books…) Chinese books are mainly received as donations by Chinese scientific academies, with an average of 1000 new books each year. The collection includes about 800 magazines.

Sue Small reports that the INOPAC system in CJK, in Unicode, is doing quite well. 5,000 books have been catalogued in Chinese, the rest is still in pinyin. The SOAS library received more money to strengthen its collections on modern Chinese language and law.

Hiroko Britain reports that her library had to cancel all the journals that have not been asked for during the last ten years because of lack of funding.

Inga Nyman explains that the Asian library of the Stockholm university library keeps only reference works. Other books concerning China are held at the Östasiatiska Biblioteket of Stockholm.

Annie Troedson explains that the Asian library of Lund university collects mainly books on Chinese language and literature. History and economics are recently also focused. The largest part of the collection is in English.

Bénédicte Héraud, Vincent Durand-Dastès and Christina Cramerotti explain the new French project to build a huge non-occidental library by the year 2004. There is also a nationwide French project for a unified catalogue, which would include CJK. La Maison de l’Asie has adopted a common cataloguing system, Agathe, which is being implemented.

Matthias Kaun explains that he is currently studying Library Information Science at Cologne University.

John M. Streffer reports that his colleagues Keller and Song have retired. He has been cataloguing the Beijing Tripitaka, and informs members that those who wish can download the data (on the web after October 2001). Furthermore, the Staatsbibliothek has cut budgets, lots of magazine subscriptions will be interrupted, less books are acquired.

David Helliwell informs us that Minh Chung has replaced Tony Hyder in the Institute for Chinese Studies Library at Oxford University.

Charles Aylmer informs us that Cambridge University Library has received a large donation of the Zhuanshi zangshu.

Lars Fredriksson was very pessimistic about his library, which he called completely under-staffed and under-budgetted.

Hubert Delahaye, who was not present, asked to read a paper, mentioning that recent acquisitions of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises have just been published in Vol. XIX, 1-2 of Etudes Chinoises.
 
 

Sue Small attended the Taiwan meeting on Chinese resource sharing in October 2000. More information about the meeting in the National Central Library Newsletter, vol. 33 nr 1 (July 2001), pp. 4-8.

Hanno Lecher reported on the AAS meeting, in conjunction with CEAL, in spring 2001, mentioning mainly the CORE project of OCLC, which does preliminary data harvesting. Hanno also organized a panel on library matters for the International Convention of Asian Studies, held in Berlin in August 2001. Cathy Thoelen asks members to make more announcements if interesting meetings, conferences or workshops are organized.

John M. Streffer comments on the meeting, dated May 2001, under the title: German CJK libraries on their way to German union catalogues.

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Matthias Kaun was thanked for his continuing work on the EASL homepage. He explains that he will shift EASL homepage from html/text basis to a database solution which should combine EASL resources with IGCS of Hanno Lecher. A test version can be used here: http://ead.sbb.spk-berlin.de:8080/ogea/index.html

7.2 Entry of libraries

It is again stressed by the chairman that every member is urged to check if the data on his/her library are still correct and to make regular updates. It is suggested that a letter would be sent out to all members on this purpose.

7.3 Discussion List EASL-L

A discussion was going on about the use of the EASL-discussion list. It was concluded that no commercial announcements are accepted, but members can announce their own or their institute’s publications.
 
 

8.2 David Helliwell introduces and demonstrates RSLP (UK) Chinese union catalogue, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/rslpchin/ He suggests that he would be happy to forward this database to an eventual European Union Database.

8.3 Cathy Thoelen reports on the meeting of the German Congshu project. The project will start by cataloguing congshu of Zürich, Tübingen and München. Later on, it will be opened to other libraries.

8.4 A discussion was going on about the requirement of a serials union catalogue. Hanno Lecher mentioned that there is no money to continue updating SSELP, the remaining funds will be used to consolidate the actual database, which will have a cut-off date (1999?).

8.5 Bent Pedersen says he will write to Shanghai and ask if he could receive free access to Quanguo baokan suoyin. Subscription for individual libraries seems too expensive.

8.6 Only Zürich uses the Allegro order module. Interested people can contact them.
 
 

11.2 It was proposed that if any EASL member would attend next year’s AAS meeting in Washington, or any other big meeting, he/she would inform other members.
 
 

The secretary was re-elected.

Tony Hyder will be replaced as a treasurer by Martin Hanke.
 
 

The Twenty-first EASL conference closed with an expression of thanks to Bent Pedersen for his excellent arrangements.
 

Benedicte Vaerman
Secretary
Leuven, 29 October 2001