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Bridging Gaps: Assessing Diversity Initiatives in GLAMs – a DLF Inquiry

The Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Diversity Subgroup of the Library Federation Committee on Equity and Inclusion (DLF CEI) conducted an online survey in spring 2022 on the diversity and inclusion efforts of GLAM organizations. The…

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Advancing Digital Literacy Through Tribal College Technology Hubs

Native communities across the U.S. continue to face significant digital and literacy divides—not from lack of interest, but from enduring gaps in access, infrastructure, and culturally aligned support. This poster explores two national initiatives,…

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Bridging the Gap between Library Services in Academic Libraries Worldwide: A Visiting Librarian Model

This article discusses an experience of the University of Central Florida (UCF) Library when hosting a visiting librarian from Tongji University Library in Shanghai, China, in 2015. Unlike most other visiting programs in the U.S., UCF's hosting…

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Building a Community with Virtual Programs: QPL’s Story During & After COVID-19 Pandemic

Stories from Queens Public Library. Poster presented at the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Annual Conference 2022 poster session.

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Building a Specialized Database of the Culture of Yi People

To build a specialized database with local characteristics is one of the future directions for the academic library at prefectural level in China. The academic library can play an important role in preserving the local cultures. It is also an…

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Building a Tag Library for the CALA’s Social Media Channels

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) has created several social media channels since 2012 with CALA members and friends participating from around the world, including the CALA's Facebook public page, WeChat space, YouTube Channel,…

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Building an institutional repository at a liberal arts college

Institutional repositories (IRs) are being used increasingly as infrastructures for self-created digital collections at large academic and research libraries. This paper demonstrates how a small liberal arts college can build an institutional…

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Building Asian and Pacific American Library Leaders for the Future: A Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by APALA)

CALA President’s Program 2022 - Building Asian and Pacific American Library Leaders for the Future: A Panel Discussion (co-sponsored by APALA)
Date/Time: 6/25, Saturday, 11-1 pm ET (CALA Membership/Poster Session from 11-12 pm and CALA Panel…

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Building Family Branch in Rural Area: An Action to Create the Literary Village

Both material resources and knowledge resources are insufficient in rural China. Therefore, the establishment of a family library branch in poor areas is not only an extension of the library services, but also an effective way to guarantee fair…

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Building New Interfaces for Shocker Open Access Repository

Wichita State University Libraries recently upgraded its DSpace based institutional repository, Shocker Open Access Repository (SOAR), to the new version 1.6.2 with an XML-based interface “Manakin”. Manakin gives the possibility of creating different…

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