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CALA Annual 2021 Presidential Program: Libraries as Catalysts for Serving Diverse Communities

What do you know about race, art, civil rights, and the socio-political forces that guided the hip-hop generation? Have you heard of the Building a Pipeline of Community Connection that helps to build a staffing model that fosters diversity, equity…

Tags: American libraries, CALA, Chinese American Librarians Association, Communities, Diverse communities, Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, EDI, Human resources, Library, Recruitment, Staffing

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CALA Midwest Chapter 2002 Annual Program, Chicago

Photos of the annual program for Chinese American Librarian Association, Midwest Chapter, Chicago, 2002

Tags: Chinese American, conference, Event, Librarian, Libraries, Photos

Position: 158 (347 views)

Academic Libraries in Ghana and Their Strategies for Coping with the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In March 2020, institutions of higher education shut down in compliance with the directives of the President of Ghana to curb the spread of COVID-19. In July 2020, when the lockdown restrictions were eased, universities resumed teaching, learning,…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Coping Strategies, COVID-19 Pandemic, Ghana, University libraries

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Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity and Outreaching to the Global Community

The ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services selected 33 presentations for the 2017 Diversity and Outreach Fair, held from 3 – 5 p .m. on June 24 in the Special Events area in the Exhibits Hall at McCormick during ALA’s Annual…

Tags: CALA, Caucuses, Chinese American Librarians Association, Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Library, Outreach Librarianship

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Libraries and Communities Response to COVID-19

Tags: Community, COVID-19, COVID-19 response, Library, Response to COVID-19

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Building Partnerships Supporting Non-Native Language Speakers

Would you like to gain useful approaches to discovering partnerships that weave diversity through your library’s community? Harper College Adjunct Librarians will showcase how they successfully built meaningful and constructive collaborations with…

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Scoping the Chinese American Librarians Association Services with a National Survey

CALA Assessment Survey Poster 2018_final.pdf

To make the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) a stronger organization and to serve its members more efficiently and effectively, CALA’s Assessment and Evaluation Committee designed an online survey and distributed it to all members…

Tags: ALA Diversity Fair, Assessment, CALA, Chinese American Librarians Association, Member perception, Organization evaluation, Survey

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GIS and Senior Services During Pandemics

This presentation gave insightful introduction of Geographic information system (GIS) and how it makes big impacts on public libraries services through various GIS apps.

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Location and Shelf Mapping from OPAC Search Results: With Reference To Wichita State University

Purpose Ð The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic mapping of holding locations to the animated maps in a library catalog which aims to resolve complex shelving situations, augment the user experience in locating library materials and enrich…

Tags: Cataloguing, Dynamic mapping, ILS, Location mapping, OPAC public interface, OPAC Search Results, Shelf mapping, SketchUp 3D, SQL query, WSU Libraries

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Dynamic Map Display in Web OPAC: An Experiment at Wichita State University Libraries

Adding more features to the web OPAC or making the Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) more compatible to external web services has been a tendency in recent years. Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries' Dynamic Map Project enriched the…