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A cohort within the Emerging Leaders program was tasked by the Philanthropic Advisory Group (PAG) to identify and recommend strategies for ALA to connect with new donors. The focus is on expanding ALA’s fundraising pipeline and enhancing donor…

The American Library Association (ALA) will soon celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2026. To encapsulate this great occasion, ALA is having a commemorative fundraising campaign. For the campaign to be successful, ALA needs to increase donor support…

Haipeng Li is University Librarian at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Prior to his position at HKBU, he was Associate Director of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, and as reference librarian at the…

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

The EndNote Blog has been an effective alternative to traditional ways of troubleshooting issues related to the use of EndNote. The Blog has resolved many common issues related to EndNote that are frequently encountered by many of our users. Better…

In 2015, The American Library Association (ALA) partnered with The Harwood institute for Public Innovation to offer the Public Innovators Lab for Libraries. By serving as a public innovator and having a better understanding of our communities, we not…

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…

This is part of the CALASYS Mini-grant program.
Background: The University of Central Florida Libraries is exploring the use of generative AI to enhance library instruction and research consultation services. Across academic libraries, the adoption…

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

Information is being generated more rapidly and in larger volumes than ever before, challenging researchers to manage an overwhelming influx of data—from search results and journal articles to countless PDFs. Sifting through this information to find…