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Embedded Librarian Practice: Transparency in Teaching Threshold Information Literacy Concepts to Social Work Students

Embedded librarianship has been one of the core practices of the library profession that academic librarians have successfully used to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships within their subject areas. This approach has proven to be…

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Academic Libraries’ Support of Student Learning through Designing a Library-based Research Information Literacy Course

This poster illustrates the process of designing a credit information literacy course as a viable alternative to the traditional one-shot library instruction mode. The poster showcases the significance of building a semester-long information literacy…

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The Life of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee: a Scholar, a Library Leader, an Ambassador

A video on the life of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, one of the founders and a past president of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). It accompanies the Spotlight on CALA Members featuring Dr. Lee and it is created on the occasion of celebrating…

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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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Beyond The OPAC: Creating Different Interfaces for Specialized Collections in an ILS System

Purpose - This paper aims to discuss the experiment in creating featured collection web sites from specialized data in the Voyager integrated library system (ILS). The specialized interfaces for different collections aim to offer flexible…

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Optimizing Workflow through Metadata Repurposing and Batch Processing

This article focuses on metadata repurposing and batch processing to improve cataloging workflow in a medium sized library. Some metadata repurposing cases at Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries are addressed, including transferring of an…

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Customized Mapping and Metadata Transfer from Dspace to OCLC to Improve ETD Work Flow

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present methods for customized mapping and metadata transfer from DSpace to Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), which aims to improve Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) work flow at libraries using…

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Deciphering the Myth: Where to Publish

Handout created for the CALA Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference 2014, Las Vegas, NV. June 29, 2014.

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Improving the CALA's Social Media Experience: The First CALA Social Media Survey

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at…

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Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity and Outreaching to the Global Community

The ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services selected 33 presentations for the 2017 Diversity and Outreach Fair, held from 3 – 5 p .m. on June 24 in the Special Events area in the Exhibits Hall at McCormick during ALA’s Annual…

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