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CALA Annual Program – Partnership beyond CALA: Training Leaders of Color for Action
Location: MCC - 2010 (W)
Time: Sunday June 28, 2015. 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Keynote speaker: Barbara Kay Stripling
Panel speakers: Eileen K. Bosch; Isabel Espinal;…

With a goal to examine the role of Chinese American librarians in Library and Information Science (LIS) diversity in the 21st century, the authors conducted a study funded by the ALA (American Library Association) Diversity Research Program between…

Libraries as Partners for Emergency Preparedness in Times of Crisis is a two-year project (Aug. 2023-Jul. 2025) funded via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries program [LG-254819-OLS-23]. It…

In collaboration and partnership with the iSchool in Illinois, academic libraries, public libraries, and state libraries across the U.S. and China, Chinese Librarians Scholarly Exchange Program (CLSEP) has trained 411 Chinese librarians from 142…

Metadata librarians' engaging in the university knowledge community is becoming a trend in recent
years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly…

Mei and Yun’s grandfather is known for his mooncake creations, but when a prince visits and tastes them, grandfather is arrested for how terrible they are! The two twelve-year-old twins must travel through the City of Ashes to the emperor's palace to…

Is there a method to collect input from all library staff when developing and updating a strategic plan that is aligned with the institution’s mission and vision ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard? Developing a valuable and meaningful…

This book has won the 2008 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction Honorary Mention).

Paper presentation overview: One of the most work-intensive tasks for digital image collections is creating the image metadata. At UIC, this work was traditionally done by the archivists. We've recently expanded that workflow to engage catalogers…