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CALASYS Advanced Training
Advanced training document on how to use and manage the CALA Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS), including how to batch load records, create and edit collections and exhibits. It's created by the CALASYS Committee.
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If We Build It, They Will Come: Improving CALA’s Institutional Repository
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) is an important initiative to curate its members’ research works, the organizational archival materials, and other cultural resources. CALASYS uses…
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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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CALA Social Media Flyer
This flyer includes CALA's current social media channels, such as Facebook, WeChat, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. The purpose of maintaining various channels is to meet its diverse members' needs and offer up-to-date platforms for information…
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Guidelines for CALA's Social Media
Guidelines for The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)'s social media channels, which include the CALA’s Public Facebook page, "CALA Members and Friends" Facebook Private Group, WeChat, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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Opening CALASYS to All Members
Since the Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources and Repository System (CALASYS, https://ir.cala-web.org/) was initiated in 2013, its collections have grown gradually by way of the Committee’s curation and entries with…
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Developing CALASYS in Celebration of CALA 50th
CALA Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS) is the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s institutional repository. It collects and archives CALA’s programs, documents and history, CALA members’ scholarly and professional…
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon Chang, a history professor at Stanford and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project, wrote the remarkable book Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad which…
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Counterstorytelling and Collaboration: Developing the CALA/YALSA Booklist Taskforce
In early 2021, CALA and YALSA developed a taskforce that, in collaboration with ALSC, will create youth booklists highlighting Chinese American creators and stories. The booklists will be released in 2023 in celebration of CALA’s 50th Anniversary.…
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Stories Beyond Borders: Developing the Chinese American and Diasporic Reading List
Created to commemorate the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) 50th Anniversary, the Stories Beyond Borders list features children’s, middle grade, and teen books centering Chinese American and diasporic voices. The list was formed…
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Ten Blocks to the Big Wok: A Chinatown Counting Book
Mia and her Uncle Eddie have adventures throughout Chinatown as they travel to the Big Wok restaurant for dim sum. Accompanying the lively and…