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An echo in the city

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Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn't want big; she…

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Coping with Constant Obsolescence: A Lifelong Task

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Knowledge and skill obsolescence is a common obstacle in individual, organization, and society development. Thanks to the modern technologies, the rate of obsolescence accelerates rapidly in the information age. In the library workplace, obsolescence…

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Telling Chinese American Librarians' Stories: Tze-Chung Li

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Dr. Tze-Chung Li was the premier Chinese American Librarian for his accomplishments. In his career, Dr. Li was the founder of the Chinese American Librarians' Association (CALA), the first Chinese scholar to be Dean of a library school, and founder…

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Celebrating diversity, welcoming the world: Developing a Chinese webpage at Rutgers University Libraries

Growing out of a recent project to create multilingual online Welcome pages at Rutgers University Libraries, this paper describes the project, from its origin to the public release of the first group of webpages, with a special emphasis on the…

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Libraries as gateways of learning and librarians as capable facilitators

Investigating and discussing how librarians in academic libraries change their roles and services following the changes in the libraries due to emerging technologies applied in the libraries.

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Welcome Colleagues in An Inclusive Hybrid Environment

Lightning Talk at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

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Unveiling Global Chinese Businesses Early 20th Century

Presentation at the 2025 CALA Canada Annual Conference

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Fan Cataloging Practices: From Fan Fiction Database to Library Catalog

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

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Modularity in FOLIO: Principles, Techniques and Tools

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From its earliest inception, FOLIO was conceived not as an ILS (Integrated Library System), but as a true Services Platform, composed of many independent but interdependent modules, and forming a foundation on which an ILS or other library software…

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