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  • 2013-03-19
Visiting Distinguished Guests
Visiting Distinguished Guests

Dr. Deanna Marcum, former associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress (LC) and Dr. TongLi Chen, former director of the Asian Library at Illinois University visited the NCL on the 15th of March, 2013. Besides making a courtesy call to our Director-general Tseng, they discussed and exchanged on digitization of publications, legal deposits, manuscripts collection as well as the long and sustained relationships between NCL and LC. This was followed by a visit to the Special Collection Division and the results of LC and NCL digitization. Since the year 2005, the LC and NCL officially signed a digitization of rare books cooperation agreement. This was extended to 2007 until the end of 2012. This mutual agreement was signed by Dr. Deanna Marcum in her position as the then LC deputy librarian. This project was funded and supported by the National Science & Technology Council “Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives Program” (TELDAP) program and the Ministry of Education. This enabled the progressive digitization of titles from Sung, Ming, Ching and Korean ancient documents. The digitized outcomes are posted in the NCL “Rare Books Image Search System” providing a global service, opening Taiwan to world renowned libraries as a herald in the digitization cooperation on Chinese documents and archives. This indeed has its historical significance. Caption: Former LC Deputy Librarian, Dr. Deanna Marcum and NCL Director-general, Tseng Shu-hsien

Last Update Time:2013-03-21