Keynote: Moving Up to Leadership Ladders: Opportunities and
Challenges for Chinese American Librarians

Title

Keynote: Moving Up to Leadership Ladders: Opportunities and
Challenges for Chinese American Librarians

Subject

Description

Presentation at the 2025 CALA Canada Annual Conference

Creator

Zhang, Shali

Publisher

Chinese American Librarians Association

Date

2025-05-05

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

Text; Presentation

Abstract

With more and more Chinese Americans/Canadians join the library profession in U.S. and in Canada, many of them seek and take advantage of various learning opportunities that prepare them for the leadership positions in all types of libraries. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Shali Zhang will share her personal journey toward a research library leadership position in the United States and look into the opportunities and challenges for Chinese American/Canadian librarians in seeking library leadership positions.

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Files

Keynote_ Moving up to Leadership Ladders.pdf

Citation

Zhang, Shali, “Keynote: Moving Up to Leadership Ladders: Opportunities and
Challenges for Chinese American Librarians,” CALASYS - CALA Academic Resources & Repository System, accessed May 30, 2026, http://ir.cala-web.org/items/show/1454.