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"Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he…

This is part of the CALASYS Mini-grant program. 
Awarded by the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library, which is the statutory fire academy library and the only fire…

This study employed an escape room motif to engage students to use information literacy course material to solve puzzles. Students practiced research techniques in a classroom environment that bypassed their expectations of traditional course…

This presentation explores the use of artificial intelligence to enhance metadata creation and management at the University of Central Florida. Focusing on the automated generation of FAST subject headings for institutional repository and library…

A number of factors are driving open access to full-text journals: constantly rising prices of journal and database subscriptions, granting agencies requirements for recipients to submit their research publications into open access repositories, and…

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) is an ALA affiliated ethnic librarian association. The value of diversity is essential to the accomplishment of its mission, objectives, and strategic goals. This poster session will present how CALA…

With the rapid change in technology and connectivity, it has become necessary for libraries to have a revamp. A library is no longer just a catalog of books, newspapers and other reading or viewing materials. We wish to create a connected website for…

Care to be aware! Stop by this session and get a brief introduction about information security and what role we all have in keeping information safe. Remember, Control + Alt + Delete when you leave your seat!

Research Fronts in Library and Information Science (LIS) in the West is a volume in the book series titled Research Fronts in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the West. Based on the analysis of a significant amount of recently published research…