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2021 CALA Southeast and Southwest Chapters Joint Online Conference Program
On May 7, 2021, CALA Southeast Chapter and Southwest Chapter held a joint virtual conference. The event featured an opening speech delivered by Yao Hong, CALA President of 2020, and four presentations. The presentations focused on the challenges…
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A southern Chinese city through the eyes of a British missionary: Preliminary analysis of the text of a historical travelogue
Walks in the City of Canton is a book written by John Henry Gray of Christ's College, Cambridge who came to China and stayed as a missionary for many years, and it was published in 1875. This project did a preliminary analysis of the text of this…
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CALA Meetings, Activities and Awards Banquet at ALA Annual Conference 2009
Photos taken at the 2009 CALA/ALA Annual Conference, covering the CALA's programs, meetings and the awards banquet held in Chicago on July 10-14.
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Diving into the university knowledge community:
navigating the expanded role of
the metadata librarian
Metadata librarians' engaging in the university knowledge community is becoming a trend in recent
years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly…
years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly…
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Linked data in the library
This presentation is a brief introduction to acknowledge the understanding of linked data, which yields hope to link separate objects in a meaningful way. The topic and potential of linked data has been hotly debated and very exciting. However, the…
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Reaching beyond ourselves: Celebrating 40 years of CALA (1973 - 2013)
The CALA 40th Anniversary Issue, Reaching Beyond Ourselves: Celebrating 40 Years of CALA (1973-2013), is without doubt a unique collection of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) history. It contains pictures, biographies, citations…
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Staging Dunhuang Mogao Caves: Treasures from along the Silk Road
Historically a frontier metropolis, Dunhuang was a strategic site along the Silk Road in northwestern China, a crossroads of trade, and a locus for religious, cultural, and intellectual influences since the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.). The 492…
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The hidden treasure -- Elling O. Eide Center
A beautiful space devoted to the culture of Asia has been quietly developing on a tucked-away waterfront property in Sarasota, Florida. This is the Elling O. Eide Center, a non-profit research library and preserve named for its benefactor, Elling O.…
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Welcome and Agenda : CALA Northeast Chapter Annual Conference 2023
Welcome message and agenda for the 2023 CALA Northeast Chapter Annual Conference.
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CALA 50th Anniversary Issue (CALA Newsletter, No. 127, Spring 2023)
The CALA Newsletter is the official publication of the Chinese American Librarians Association, and it disseminates information about Chinese American…