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  • Collection: CALA Midwest Chapter

Information sec__ity , what’s missing? UR!

2016 CALA MW_Brown_sec--ity.pdf
Care to be aware! Stop by this session and get a brief introduction about information security and what role we all have in keeping information safe. Remember, Control + Alt + Delete when you leave your seat!

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Help-seeking in the academic library in the digital age: a review of the research and a conversation

2016 CALA MW_Burns_HelpSeeking In the Library.pdf
Asking for help with library research can be difficult for students for many reasons. In this presentation, I will discuss some of the research on the topic of help-seeking. Many students still use a traditional approach by talking to a librarian at…

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CALA Midwest Chapter 2002 Annual Program, Chicago

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Photos of the annual program for Chinese American Librarian Association, Midwest Chapter, Chicago, 2002

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A Job or a Career: How to market yourself to land on your dream job

2016 CALA MW_Qi Chen_How to find your dream job.pdf
What is your dream job? Different people will have different opinions of a dream job, more money, more conformable, more fitting your life style or …? Getting a dream job is your most important investment. You should plan your search very carefully…

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Community Engagement

Chinatown Branch of the Chicago Public Library continues to serve as a social hub and a community center for culture, information, education and technology to all people. People are welcomed to the library to learn, work, play, gather and participate…

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Fostering Teacher and Librarian Partnerships: Designing an Information Literacy Program to Support the High School to College Transition

A lightning talk at the 2017 Chinese American Librarians Association Midwest Chapter Annual Conference Program

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Together We Make It Work! – Metadata Collaboration in UIC Libraries

This presentation is a case study that discusses the successful collaboration between different departments within our university library to improve our metadata. The collaboration combined library faculty and staff knowledge of metadata standards…

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Thinking about the future: trends and signals for the library of the future

ThinkingAbouttheFuture.pdf
Thinking about the future of our profession and the communities that we serve can seem like a daunting challenge. But there are steps we can take right now – exploring the trends and signals we encounter in our everyday lives – that can help us begin…

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Docear: a new tool to help researchers in searching, organizing, and creating academic literature

2016 CALA MW_Fu Zhuo.pdf
Scientists and researchers are always exploring better and more effective ways to search, organize, and create academic literature. Based on such a need, a new software, Docear, also Known as an ‘academic literature suite’ was first developed in…

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Reading Preferences of Suburban Library Patrons

This is the first part of an on-going study examining the reading behaviors of adult library patrons. Using multiple years’ circulation statistics from four public libraries in the north suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, we try to identify the trends in…

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