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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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Public Libraries in Bridging the Digital Divide

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

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Publish or Perish: Escape Room Edition

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Slide presentation recounting Emma Bekele and Angel Tang's efforts to develop and run an escape room for undergraduate students

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Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis of Assessing Student Information Literacy Skills: The Power of Librarian-Faculty Collaborations

Librarians at the Moore Library of Rider University conducted a focus group with 12 undergraduate students during the summer of 2011 and modified an online test
used for determining students’ information literacy (IL) skills in required composition…

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Re-org, retreat and reach out : how we make technical services successful.

This presentation shared the experience of how University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM) Department adopted a project management methodology to reorganize technical services in an academic library setting. The…

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Reaching beyond ourselves: Celebrating 40 years of CALA (1973 - 2013)

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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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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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