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The Murder of Mr. Ma
For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new, as two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London…
Tags: 1920s London, 2025 CALA Best Book Award, Action-adventure, Chinese immigrants, Gong'an fiction, Murder investigation
Position: 1049 (102 views)
The Meaning of Qi—A Linguistic Approach
Position: 220 (505 views)
The Many Meanings of Meilan
Twelve-year-old Taiwanese American Meilan Hua struggles to fit in when her family moves from Boston’s Chinatown to a small town in Ohio. When Meilan discovers the meanings of her Chinese name, she inhabits different personas to deal with her…
Tags: Middle grade
Position: 583 (369 views)
The Many Meanings of Meilan
"Meilan Hua's world is made up of a few key ingredients: her family's beloved matriarch, Nai Nai; the bakery her parents, aunts, and uncles own and run in Boston's Chinatown; and her favorite Chinese fairy tales. After Nai Nai passes, the family has…
Position: 676 (326 views)
The Many Masks of Andy Zhou
Andy Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents and, now, his grandparents in from Shanghai, or the helpful sidekick for his best friend Cindy’s plans and schemes. So when Cindy decides they should try out for…
Position: 1072 (62 views)
The Life of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee: a Scholar, a Library Leader, an Ambassador
A video on the life of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, one of the founders and a past president of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). It accompanies the Spotlight on CALA Members featuring Dr. Lee and it is created on the occasion of celebrating…
Tags: Biographies, CALA, CALA founder, CALA pioneer, CALA presidents, Librarianship, Library dean, Library pioneer, Life histories, Video
Position: 14 (778 views)
The Library As Partner In Career Services: A Necessary Outreach
Traditionally, academic libraries have supported career services by developing career collections to enhance students’ professional development. This presentation will focus on selected examples of how academic business librarians could partner with…
Position: 1079 (31 views)
The Legend of Auntie Po
Mei and her father work in an 1885 Nevada logging camp. Mei enjoys cooking for her camp family, developing feelings for Bee, and telling tall tales of Auntie Po. That is, until the company demands that the camp stops hiring Chinese workers in the…
Tags: Teen
Position: 549 (386 views)
The integrated library system’s APIs, an open-source web 2.0 catalog, and university computing live happily ever after
Birong A. Ho, a Systems Librarian at Western Michigan University Libraries.
Position: 398 (450 views)
The Integrated Library System’s APIs
Introduction to Web API coding for library online cataloging system (Voyager), including features, structure of system, with corresponding API coding (PHP).
Position: 79 (589 views)
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Digital Reference: A Survey of Its Popularity As A Reference Tool And Technologies Used By The US Academic Libraries
A Survey report for how academic libraries provide and market digital reference, plus, what technologies they used.
