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Public Libraries in Bridging the Digital Divide

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

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Protection of Library Users' Privacy - An Analysis of US States' Laws on the Issue

The right of having privacy is related to the safety of everybody in a society. Therefore, it is a topic that should concern everyone. In the library field, it focuses on the protection of library users' personal registration and circulation records,…

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Prospects for connecting community and engaging students for an academic resource and repository system

CALASYS is the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s academic resource and repository system. The purpose of the system is to collect, organize, and store scholarly publications, library and information science related resources created or…

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Prompting Progress: An Eight-Week AI Literacy Cohort for Academic Advisors – A Program Evaluation Report

This is part of the CALASYS Mini-grant program.
As generative AI floods higher education, academic advisors—often the first humans students consult—must learn to partner with the technology, not compete with it. This eight-week,…

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Promoting Open Educational Resources: Incentives and Strategies

Open educational resources (OER) have become more and more popular among academic institutions and libraries across America. They are usually referred to as freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, as well as other digital assets that are…

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Promoting Local Cultural Collection Through Digital Curation

This poster presents an attempt to showcase a local coming-of-age ceremony using digital methods and discusses the potential of local libraries and archives to foster a deeper connection with cultural heritage in the digital age.

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Promoting Library Advocacy, Diversity, Family Literacy, and Global Outreach

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), an ALA affiliate, participated in the 2011 Poster Session at the Diversity and Outreach Fair to showcase its mission, programs, and services for diverse audiences of all ages. The presentation…

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Promoting Chinese Cultural Heritage in the Working Environment and the Community

As Chinese American librarians, it is our mission to promote Chinese cultural heritage to help maintain our identity and roots. To integrate this vision into the working environment as well as the community requires dedication, creativity and…

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Promoting and teaching information literacy on the Internet: Surveying the websites of 264 academic libraries in North America

A survey was conducted between July and November 2012 to determine how academic libraries in the United States and Canada marketed and delivered information literacy on the Web. A random sample of 264 institutions was taken from Peterson's Four-Year…

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