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Disrupting White Supremacy Through BIPOC Solidarity

What does it mean to be in solidarity with other Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color. (BIPOC)? This webinar will be a discussion of why solidarity is vital and what it might look for us to engage in it. As Asian/Pacific Americans, we benefit…

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Smiling Library

Smiling Library (微笑图书室) is a private non-profit organization in Shanghai, China. As shown in this video, the Smiling Mission is to offer reading promotional activities to rural and semi-rural primary schools in China, including Chengdu and rural…

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Using Wikidata to Create Knowledge Graphs for Library Collections

Wikidata_KG_CALAposter_2022.pdf
As a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform for structured data, and a community-building knowledge base, Wikidata stores people, spaces, times and other entities, and their semantic relationships. Wikidata Knowledge graph is a knowledge base that…

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Enhance the Discovery and Interoperability of Culturally Rich Information: the Chinese Women Poets WikiProject

ALA 2022 poster v4.pdf
Traditionally, special collections such as culture and heritage collections and their name authority data were cataloged using local cataloging standards with limited data interoperability. The library community has questioned for a number of years…

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Building a Community with Virtual Programs: QPL’s Story During & After COVID-19 Pandemic

ALA Poster 2022_Hong.pdf
Stories from Queens Public Library. Poster presented at the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Annual Conference 2022 poster session.

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The English Conversation Group for International Students

EnglishCoversationGroup.pdf
The English Conversation Group (ECG) at the Leddy Library has been offering virtual sessions for the first time in the program’s history since the Fall 2020 semester during COVID-19 pandemic. Using virtual teaching technology, the ECG is trying to…

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Academic Libraries’ Support of Student Learning through Designing a Library-based Research Information Literacy Course

CALA 2022_Poster.pdf
This poster illustrates the process of designing a credit information literacy course as a viable alternative to the traditional one-shot library instruction mode. The poster showcases the significance of building a semester-long information literacy…

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Can we? Should we? Considerations When Selecting a Research Data Repository

Poster_CALA_CDX_2022.pdf
In Spring of 2022, members of Technology and Resource Management at UHCL Libraries set out to assess internal data management policies. After surveying the data management landscape in academic libraries, we have created a set of considerations for…

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Rules of Engagement: Seven Things to Remember When Engaging Student Populations

The presenter will discuss seven key issues librarians and library professionals should mindful of when developing student programming and interacting with student populations. This presentation will provide a basic framework for those who are…

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Promoting Open Educational Resources: Incentives and Strategies

Open educational resources (OER) have become more and more popular among academic institutions and libraries across America. They are usually referred to as freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, as well as other digital assets that are…

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