Experience of a Chinese Librarianat WLIC

Ben GuNational Library of China

My positions in NLCAcquisitions librarianDirector of acquisitions & cataloging

departments (Chinese and foreign)Director of ISSN China CenterDirector of Online Library Cataloging Center

My roles in IFLAStanding Committee member of the

Cataloguing Section, 2005-2013Secretary of the Cataloguing Section, 2005-

2009ISBD Review Group member, 2007-PresentEditorial Board member, International

Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 2011-Editorial Committee member, IFLA Journal,

2011-

My experience in WLICBeijing 1996Copenhagen 1997Oslo 2005Seoul 2006Durban 2007Milan 2009San Juan 2011

Interesting ConferencesSeoul, Korea: Asian cultureDurban, South Africa: different cultural

experience, especially in some cultural eventsMilan, Italy: musical elements in cultural

events (opera house and church)…

SessionsOpen

Opening SessionClosing SessionCultural EventsOpen Programmes

Not very open (with permission)Standing Committee meetings (observers

allowed)Working Group meetings

Cultural Evening, Seoul, 2006

Standing Committee Meeting, 2009

ISBD Review Group Meeting, 2007

Sharing experiencesPhotos: Flickr, Facebook, etc.Blogs: sina.com.cn, Blogspot, etc.Video: YouTube, etc.Miniblogs: Twitter, weibo.com, etc.…

My Blog Posts in Milan, 2009Day 2: Chinese Language Interpreters Day 2: Standing Committee MeetingDay 3: Opening Session, Exhibition and Conc

ertDay 4: Working Group MeetingsDay 5: ISBD and UNIMARC MeetingsDay 6: Standing Committee, New Book Relea

se, Council MeetingDay 7: Other Businesses…

Personal WebsiteChinese Translations of Cataloguing-Related

Presentations:http://www.bengu.cn/homepage/library/ifla_chi

nese_papers_milan2009.htmDone by Chinese colleagues and organized by

me.

Sharing experiencesTranslating presentations: VolunteersWriting reports: Bosses and newslettersWriting articles: Analyzing presentations and

summarizing conferences – Journals and newspapers

Reporting to my colleagues of the National Library of China

ClusionsMake full use of the opportunity:

ProfessionalCultural

Communication with international friendsSharing experiences with librarians unable to

attend WLIC

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