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A southern Chinese city through the eyes of a British missionary: Preliminary analysis of the text of a historical travelogue
Walks in the City of Canton is a book written by John Henry Gray of Christ's College, Cambridge who came to China and stayed as a missionary for many years, and it was published in 1875. This project did a preliminary analysis of the text of this…
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CALA and CALA Chapters Survey Report 2023
Like other professional associations across various fields, CALA has been struggling to sustain membership, specifically recruiting and motivating volunteers and identifying members who can serve as volunteers. To examine the effects of CALA members’…
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Diving into the university knowledge community:
navigating the expanded role of
the metadata librarian
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…
years. In preparing for this change, it can be challenging for the metadata librarians to step out of the "back room", engage in scholarly…
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Getting to know SCUA
David Benjamin joined the UCF Libraries as Head of Special Collections & University Archives in September 2015. David comes from the University of Arizona where he was the Assistant Director of the Volkerding Study Center at the Center for Creative…
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Linked data in the library
This presentation is a brief introduction to acknowledge the understanding of linked data, which yields hope to link separate objects in a meaningful way. The topic and potential of linked data has been hotly debated and very exciting. However, the…
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New Library Technologies, Practices, and Impacts: CALA Southeast Chapter and Southwest Chapter Joint Conference
The conference schedule for CALA Southeast Chapter and Southwest Chapter Joint Conference that took place on June 13, 2016.
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Reaching beyond ourselves: Celebrating 40 years of CALA (1973 - 2013)
The CALA 40th Anniversary Issue, Reaching Beyond Ourselves: Celebrating 40 Years of CALA (1973-2013), is without doubt a unique collection of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) history. It contains pictures, biographies, citations…
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon Chang, a history professor at Stanford and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project, wrote the remarkable…