Digital Resources Committee DRC

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Digital Resources Committee(DRC)

• Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D.
• Chair of the DRC
• Science, Technology Business Division
• The Library of Congress

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Agenda

• The List of New Members
• Report on the Todai Session
• Oya Zaidan visit--Haruko Nakamura
• New Goals
• Suggestions/comments to the DRC
• Questions to Nikkei, Asahi, and Japan Knowledge

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New Members of the DRC and their Tasks

• Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D.
• Chair of the DRC
• Syun Tutiya, Ph.D.
• Advisor to the DRC

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Members at Large

• Beth Katzoff, DRC Secretariat
• Robert Britt, DRC Web Master/Information Provider
• Kiyoyo Pipher, Contact Point/Information Provider
  
• Michiko Ito, Communicator (Commercial Venders,
  consortium)
• Haruko Nakamura, Communicator (Commercial
  Venders)
• Eiko Sakaguchi, Communicator (Government
  Institutes, NII JST)
• Yuki Ishimatsu, Digital Projects
• Affiliations and contact information are
  provided in handouts.

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Visiting Oya Zaidan

• Questions from the DRC
• Off campus usage
• Transferring obtained information from Oya
• Citing information obtained
• Availability
• Price of the database

• Issues and Concerns
• Off campus usage is not acceptable
• Print out is allowed, but no e-mailing
• Discouraging to cite the complete list
• Termination of service this March?
• Membership 15,000
• Attitudes of Japanese libraries

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Todai Session September 1, 2006

• Commercial Venders
• Asahi
• Nikkei
• Yomiuri

• Librarians
• North American University Libraries
• Library of Congress
• Japanese University Libraries
• NII
• Guests

Detailed summaries are in the handouts.
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New Goals
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Do you have any comments on the DRCs new goals?
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Do you have any questions to Nikkei, Asahi,
Japan Knowledge, NII?