The 54th General Assembly of the Japan Association of National University
Libraries was held at JAL Resort Sea Hawk Hotel (Fukuoka) on June 28, 2007
hosted by Kyushu University Library.
After the opening address by Professor Kazuhiko Saigo, President of JANUL,
the greeting from Professor Tisato Kajiyama, President of Kyushu
University and Professor Setsuo Arikawa, Director of Kyushu University
Library. Before the proceedings, Professor Yata, Director of Niigata
University Library and Professor Hayakawa, Director of Kagoshima
University Library were nominated as the chairperson and the vice-chairperson,
respectively and got approval.
In the proceeding, there was firstly the progress report of the Association's
activities after the 53rd General Assembly last June.
Then the following issues were discussed: election of the Directors;
approval of the report on the accounts of JANUL in FY2006 and its audit;
approval of the report on the accounts of JANUL Award and its audit;
approval of the proposed business plans for FY2007;
approval of the proposed budget for FY2007; and so on.
Next, Mr. Yorihiko Katsuno, Director of Information Division, Research
Promotion Bureau, MEXT explained the recent moves about national universities,
the moves about academic research, especially the activities of the Subdivision
on Science, Council for Science and Technology, the recent moves about
scholarly information infrastructures, budgetary request for FY2008,
and so on.
Further, the awarding ceremony of 2007 JANUL Award was performed and Shimane
University Library won the award on their information disseminating activities
in "the project for holding exhibitions, lectures and symposium about the rare
books and publication of their results."
In the afternoon, workshops was held and the following three topics were
discussed actively: library management, human resources system and training
of library staffs; future course of library systems and user services;
operation and promotion of institutional repository. The results of the
discussion were reported in the plenary session for summarizing the General
Assembly.