I am honored to ser ve you as CALA?s President, 2015-2016. My presidential theme is 'Success through Synergy and Inclusivi ty: The impact of team-based leadership.' I w i l l lead CALA to optimize synergy, value diver si ty, promote creativi ty through col laboration, and offer leadership tr aining and oppor tuni ties. Let?s make a di f ference! With strong suppor t from the CALA Board and members, I look for ward to working w ith al l of you and making this a fulf i l l ing and productive year. ("Greetings" continue on page 2)

CALA Newsletter No. 113, Fall 2015

CALA Newsletter (ISSN: 0736-8887) is the off icial publication of the Chinese Amer ican Librar ians Association. The CALA Newsletter is published tw ice a year in spr ing and fal l . URL: http://cala-web.org/newsletter .

Pr esident : Lian Ruan, lr uan@il l inois.edu

Vice Pr esident /Pr esident Elect: Qi Chen, q123@msn.com

Execut ive Di r ector : Li Fu, ai l i faha@gmail.com

Newslet ter Edi tor i al Team :

Sai Deng, sai .deng@ucf.edu

Xiaojie Duan, xiaojie.duan@usm.edu

CALA NewsletterMESSAGE FROM THE CALA PRESIDENTCONTENT

-   Gr eet ings (P. 1-5)

-   Inter v iews (P. 6-9)

-   News & Announcem ents (P. 10-20)

-   Awar ds (P. 21-25)

-   Publ i cat i ons (P. 26-30)

-   Mem ber News (P. 30)

-   In Mem or iam (P. 31)

-   Confer ences & Tr avels (P. 32-35)

-   Ex hibi t s (P. 35)

-   Chapter High l i ghts (P. 36-38)

-   Inter nat i onal Col l abor at i on (P. 38-40)

-   Album s (P. 41-42)

-   CALA Docum ents (P. 43-89)

HIGHLIGHTS-  Dance of the Libr ar ian (P. 6-7)

-  Jour ney back f r om the Hack ing (P. 10)

- " The Chinese Am er i can Dewey" (P. 21-24)

-  2015 Dunhuang For um (P. 32-33)

What t o Br eak t he Wint er wit h: CALA Pr ogr am dur ing 2016 ALA Midwint er Meet ing in Bost on

Jan. 8?11, 2016

(Al l CALA meetings w i l l be held both in per son and online via Anymeeting)

Top 3 hotels prefer red (Selection based on pr ice avai lable and distance from the convention center ): 1. Hyatt Regency, 2. Renaissance Water front Hotel, 3. InterContinental Boston.

Jan. 9, 2016 Satur day

7:30 am-8:30 am - EC Meeting 1 w ith ALA (CALA) Emerging Leaders (ELs). Mentor and coach ELs plus social time. Attendees include 2016 ELs and their mentor s. Previous ELs and mentor s w i l l be invi ted. The suggested CALA project ideas for 2016 ALA EL Program w i l l be shared and discussed.

8:45 am-9:45 am - EC Meeting 2 on President and ED?s Midyear Repor ts. Review and discussion on both r epor ts.

10 am-12 pm - EC Meeting 3 on Committee/Task Force Action Plans and Midyear. Repor ts Review and make comments on ALL committee and task for ce?s action plans and midyear r epor ts from 10am-11am and online meeting discussion from 11-12 pm.

12:15 pm?1:30 pm - CALA Member Group Lunch Gather ing. Al l CALA members are invi ted and location TBA.

2pm?4pm - Board Or ientation and Leadership Development Training OPEN MEETING. Open session to al l attendees w ith a focus on CALA and caucuses. A panel of speakers w i l l address the audience.

4:30pm-5:30pm - EC Meeting 4 w ith Chapter Presidents. The meeting agenda w i l l be drafted based on action plans and midyear r epor ts.

7pm?9pm - Board Meeting (II) OPEN MEETING [note: Board Meeting (I) was held in SF in June 2015]. The Board meeting agenda w i l l be drafted based on review ing the action plans and midyear r epor ts.

Jan. 10, 2016 Sunday Nothing scheduled

Jan. 11, 2016 Monday

6:30 am -7: am - ALA Sunr ise Ceremony (an annual ALA event). CALA president is r equir ed to attend. Vice President and ED should be present. Al l other EC members and CALA leaders/members are encouraged to join.

by Lian Ruan

In addition to the meetings for the CALA Board, the Executive Committee of the Board (EC), and general

membership, CALA successful ly held a number of programs and events dur ing the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco from June 26 to June 29, 2015. CALA Board Or ientation continued i ts Leadership Training Ser ies on Financial Management and

Fundraising for Non-Profi t Organizations, presented by Professor Ling Hwey Jeng. The CALA lunch gather ing attr acted 36 par ticipants, including l ibrar ians from China. Additionally, the CALA

Annual Program focused on the theme of ?Par tner ship beyond CALA: Training Leaders of Color for Action,? w ith invi ted keynote speaker Barbara Kay

Str ipl ing, ALA President, 2013-2014. Panel speakers included Ei leen K. Bosch, APALA President 2014-2015, sabel Espinal, former REFORMA President, Janice Rice, former AILA President, Dr. Zhi j ia Shen, former CALA President, and Kelvin Watson,

BCALA President 2014-2015.

The CALA Poster Sessions, enti tled ?Showcase of Your Achievements,? provided an ideal platform for CALA members to display poster s on di f ferent topics to showcase, discuss, and share achievements in r esearch, ongoing work, best practices, innovative ser vices, and community development in

an informal scholar ly setting. The CALA Awards

Banquet celebrated CALA members and their accomplishments. Among the w inners, Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee won the ALA Melvi l Dewey Medal Award, the highest honor awarded by the Amer ican Librar y Association beginning in 1953. Other notable awards went to Camila Ali r e, who won the ALA Equali ty Award, and Patty Wong, who earned the CALA Distinguished Ser vices Award. Please f ind more information on the CALA website: http://cala-web.org/Programs and photos on the CALA Facebook page at: https://w w w.facebook.com/pages/CALA-Chinese-Amer ican

-Librar ians-Association/281336511932864.

(Photos provided by Lian Ruan)

Greetings

CALA PROGRAMS & EVENTS DURING 2015 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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CALA PROGRAMS DURING 2016 ALA MIDWINTER MEETING

CALA ALA Midw inter programs w i l l take place on Januar y 9, 2016 (http://w w w.cala-web.org/node/1670). Highlights include meetings of the Executive Committee of the Board (EC) w ith CALA?s ALA emerging leaders and CALA chapter presidents, the CALA member group lunch gather ing, Board or ientation and leadership development tr aining, and the Board meeting. I was also invi ted to join the Dr. Mar tin Luther King Jr. Holiday Obser vance and Sunr ise Celebration on Januar y 11.

CALA LISTSERV POLICY

In August, the Board approved the CALA Listser v Policy. As i t states, ?the purpose of the CALA LISTSERV shall be to disseminate CALA-related information to the CALA LISTSERV members, and to faci l i tate the exchange of professional information and stimulate conversation and dialogue via an electronic forum.? It fur ther states that ?membership of the CALA LISTSERV shall be l imited to cur rent CALA members only, or as speci f ical ly author ized by the CALA Board of Dir ector s, and in such case, only w ith speci f ic purposes or justi f ication for said exception.? To learn more about the policy, please go to http://w w w.cala-web.org/l istser v.

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CALA 2020 STRATEGIC PLAN

Greetings

The CALA Board has hosted f ive online meetings as of November 2015. On November 5, at the four th meeting, the Board approved the CALA 2020 Strategic Plan which identi f ies the fol low ing six str ategic areas to focus on: membership r ecrui tment, r etention, and engagement; leadership tr aining and development; local chapter development; professional development oppor tuni ties through tr aining and mentor ing; professional networking through cutting-edge technologies; and CALA?s impact on local, state, national, and international levels. The plan w i l l help CALA maximize str engths, uti l ize exper tise, sharpen ski l ls, and heighten the association?s far -r eaching impact on CALA and the LIS f ield. The plan can be found at http://cala-web.org/node/1668. Since fal l 2014, the CALA 2020 Strategic Plan Task Force has worked di l igently w ith members and leaders on shaping a new future for CALA. Please f ind the histor y of the planning process at the Task Force web page, https://intr anet.cala-web.org/node/3. Thank al l of you so much for your enthusiastic par ticipation and strong suppor t!

CALA COMMITTEE/ TASK FORCE REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENTSThank you for the enthusiastic r esponse to my cal l to ser ve CALA. The long l ist of CALA appointments includes 32 energetic teams that consist of 20 committees and 12 task for ces, in addition to seven categor ies of CALA representatives w ith members to other organizations (see more about the CALA appointments at http://w w w.cala-web.org/node/1646). In October, after working hard w ith team members, al l chair s submitted action plans along w ith budget r equests to the president. I set up the Chair s Listser v to faci l i tate communications and information shar ing. CALA?s success r el ies on the capable leadership of individual chair s and the effective teamwork of members. Go CALA!

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CALA PRESIDENT BUDGET PROPOSAL

Based on budget r equests for new programs and events and last year?s President Budget Proposal, the CALA President Budget Proposal was submitted to the Board for r eview and discussion in ear ly November. At the suggestion of Board members, the President Budget Proposal added a grant that suppor ts chapter presidents' tr avel to the CALA Annual Conference. This grant w i l l help increase the par ticipation of chapter presidents in CALA board meetings, and i t w i l l help to r ecrui t future CALA leaders at chapter and national levels. The Board approved the President Budget Proposal on November 16. Equipped w ith strong suppor t from the Board, CALA committees, task for ces, and representatives are rocking and rol l ing to achieve CALA goals.

LOCAL CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT AND CHAPTER PRESIDENTSAll chapter off icer s are in place. Congratulations to al l chapter chair s for a job well done! I established the CALA Chapter President Club Lister v to enhance communications, r esource shar ing, and suppor t among chapter s and between national and regional chapter s. Al l seven chapter presidents submitted their action plans to lead their chapter s to a better future. Please see the name l ist for seven chapter off icer s at http://cala-web.org/node/1645.

ALA EMERGING LEADER PROGRAMThe CALA Executive Committee of the Board (EC) approved the continuation of sponsorship for two emerging leaders ($1,000/each) for the ALA Emerging Leader Program. Please join me in congratulating Xiaojie Duan and Jennifer Zhao who were chosen to be par t of this great program. ALA?s press r elease states that there are 50 selected par ticipants who w i l l attend the ALA 2016 class of Emerging Leaders. To f ind more about the press r elease, please go to http://w w w.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/11/emerging-leader -par ticipants-class-2016-announced.

You may f ind the complete namelist at http://w w w.ala.org/educationcareers/si tes/ala.org.educationcareers/f i les/content/Selected2016ELs_AlphaList.pdf.

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Greetings

PARTICIPATION IN THE IFLA CONGRESSSeven CALA members attended the 2015 IFLA Wor ld Librar y and Information Congress in South Afr ica. They are Clara Chu, Mar io Gonzalez, Michael Huang, Raymond Pun, Janine Schmidt, Xuemao Wang, and Shali Zhang. Congratulations to Michael Huang who was elected as a standing committee member in the health and biosciences l ibrar ies section (http://l ibrar y.stonybrook.edu/michael-bai lou-huang-elected-i f la-standing-committee-health-biosciences-l ibrar ies-section/). Pun presented three conference papers; one for the pre-conference organized by the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section, and two others for the Metropoli tan Librar y Section and the Librar y Ser vices to People w ith Special Needs Section. 

The 2016 IFLA Congress w i l l be held in Columbus, Ohio. In June 2015, at the CALA Board Meeting in San Francisco, the Board approved a contr ibution of $3,000 to the ALA/IFLA Annual Conference Scholar ship ($1,000/award). CALA members w i l l benefi t from the scholar ships to attend the congress. The scholar ships fund congress r egistr ation for CALA members.

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SCHOLAR EXCHANGE & SHARING WITH CHINA Chinese Libr ar ians Scholar ly Exchange Pr ogr am in I l l i noi s. 28 par ticipants from 22 Chinese univer si ties attended the 2016 exchange program at the Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign, which I have helped organize since 2005. The 2016 program is in i ts 11th year, and thus far al l par ticipants have joined CALA as members. CALA Executive Dir ector Li Fu gave a presentation ti tled ?Evaluation of Leadership Development in Amer ican Academic Librar ies and CALA?s Leadership Training Program.? Chinese l ibrar ian par ticipants highly appreciated kind suppor t of CALA members in coordinating si te visi ts and scholar ly exchange at Columbia Univer si ty w ith Dir ector Jim Cheng and Chengzhi Wang; MIT w ith Eugenia Beh; UC Berkeley w ith Jianye He; San Hose State Univer si ty w ith Yiping Wang and Diana Wu; Univer si ty of San Francisco w ith Zheng Jessica Lu; and Google w ith Xin Xiang. Howard Si lver, Head of Data and Special ized Ser vices at MIT Librar ies, w rote about the visi t for their newsfeed at http://l ibrar ies.mit.edu/news/l ibrar ies-visi tor s-china/19685/.

The Inst i t u te for Chinese Academ ic Leader s: Valu ing the Best of Tr adi t i on Whi le St r ategi cal l y Managing Change. I was invi ted to give a speech in July on the tr ends of U.S.-China l ibrar y r elations to Chinese l ibrar y dir ector s at the Ohio Univer si ty Librar ies. At the event, I also met several CALA members, including Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Dr. Camila Ali r e, Dean Xuemao Wang, and Dr. Yan He. To learn more about the Insti tute, visi t the blog at https://w w w.l ibrar y.ohiou.edu/2015/09/ohio-univer si ty-l ibrar ies-

hosted-insti tute-for -chinese-academic-leaders/.

(Left picture: Cour tesy of Tyler Stabi le, Ohio Univer si ty)

(More scholar exchange & shar ing w ith China news on the next page)

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Photo by Lian Ruan.

Greetings

Yunnan. The CALA Executive Committee of the Board (EC) and the Librar y Information Working Committee of Yunnan Province have agreed on a Letter of Intent on Continuing Cooperation between the two organizations for upcoming cooperation and visi ts through 2019. Executive Dir ector Li Fu and I signed the Letter of Intent in October. CALA is taking the lead in planning the 2016 program. More to come.

The 2015 Annual Confer ence of the Libr ar y Society of China and the Chinese Libr ar y Ex hibi t i on. The Annual Conference and the Exhibi tion w i l l be held in Guangzhou, China from December 15 to 17, 2015. The theme for CALA?s Academic Session is enti tled ?The Librar y?s Role in Social Advancement: Cur rent Trends in Academic and Public Librar ies in the United States.? CALA speakers include Dr.

Lian Ruan on new tr ends of academic l ibrar ies in the United States; Haipeng Li on academic l ibrar y management and the role of leadership in academic l ibrar ies; Michael Huang on the evolving role of academic health sciences l ibrar ies and l ibrar ians; Angela Yang on new and innovative ser vices in public l ibrar ies; Andree Y. Lee on information l i teracy education in distance learning; Liya Deng on expanding the role of public l ibrar ies: agents of change in connected learning environments; Dr. Raymond Wang on the roles of school media special ists and the community col lege l ibrar ians; and Dr. Clara M. Chu on l ibrar ies empower ing communities: a tr ansnational per spective. Special thanks go to Michael Huang, CALA Representative to the Librar y Society of China, for coordinating the CALA program. (Photo cour tesy: Dunhuang Academy)

CALA?s Car ing and Loving Fund was ini tiated by Executive Dir ector Li Fu in 2014 in honor of her late husband. The fund is used when a member is in urgent need for help, exper iencing an emergency such as i l lness, death in the family, or unforeseen disaster. This year, I appointed a task for ce on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Board (EC) to take charge of the fund activi ties. Co-Chair s Jinxiu Guo and Andrew Lee have reached out to CALA members in need. These members appreciated CALA?s assistance and thoughtfulness. Please contact Jinxiu Guo at j inx.guo@gmail.com or Andrew Lee at yl i7@gmu.edu i f you know a CALA member in need of help. Vickie Doll , a CALA member, worked w ith CALA Midwest Chapter President Zhuo Fu and others to set up a donation website at https://w w w.gofundme.com/9m3funfy for Lisa Zhao (CALA President, 2013/2014) who has fought hard against brain cancer for more than 14 months. As of November 12, in just two months, $13,705 has been raised. Thank you for your generosi ty! Please continue to spread the word about this fundraising website and to lend your kind suppor t to Lisa and her fami ly. As 32 teams car r y out individual team action plans, ever y CALA day is getting more exci ting. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (Where many help to gather f i r ewood, the f lames shoot high)! Thank you so much again for your generous suppor t to CALA and to me! Should you have any questions, please don?t hesi tate to contact me via emai l at lr uan@il l inois.edu, or by phone at (217) 265-6105. Best Wishes and Happy Holidays!

Lian Ruan

CALA President, 2015/2016 November 17, 2015

CALA'S CARE AND LOVE FOR MEMBERS

Dunhuang Academy. The 2015 Dunhuang Forum: International Conference on Digital Library and Cultural Relics Preservation and Use in the Big Data Environment was organized by Dunhuang Academy in cooperation w ith organizations l ike the Graduate School of Librar y and Information Science at the Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign. I t was held in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes from August 24 to August 28, 2015. I was invi ted to give a presentation enti tled ?Digi tal Dunhuang & CALA: Collaboration in Scholar ly Shar ing and Exchange,? and met many CALA members,

including Wei Peng, Shengping Xia, Tianxiu Yu, YanpengSong, Lipeng Xu, Liqing Jin, Xiaoyang Zhang, and June Zhang. On November 9, 2015, working w ith var ious sponsors, I hosted the 2016 Mi l lerComm event of the Center for Advanced Study at the Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign. The event was enti tled ?Mind and Murals, the Buddhist Cave Paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China,? presented by Eugene Y. Wang, the Abby Aldr ich Rockefel ler Professor of Asian Ar t at Har vard

Univer si ty. More col laborative projects are in the works and CALA w i l l play an integral par t in them. Please stay tuned.

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Many CALA m em ber s and f r i ends i n the l ast CALA banquet appr eciated your passionate and pr ofessional dance, and you wer e i nt r oduced as a facu l t y l i br ar i an and r esear cher at the sam e t im e, can you tel l us m or e about your sel f?

I grew up and completed my College education in Taiwan. I had B.A. degree in Spanish Language and Li terature. Business w ith Latin Amer ican countr ies was booming in the 1980s. Dur ing my col lege years, I was able to work as Spanish Secretar y and Spanish language teacher for corporate cl ients. After having accumulated some savings, I came to Amer ica to pur sue fur ther studies.

I r eceived MLS from the Univer si ty of Wisconsin-Madison, worked one year as a Spanish cataloger for the Cali fornia Spanish Language Data Base,

and felt the needs to be more know ledgeable on technology-related issues. I r eturned to school for fur ther study and received my second master degree in CIS from the New York Insti tute of Technology.

I l iked to be challenged and always set up goal(s) to lead myself for dir ections. My cur rent posi tion as a

faculty l ibrar ian at the City Univer si ty of New York has fulf i l led a great par t of my l i fetime goals to become a professional l ibrar ian, scholar, and researcher.

Most people outside the l ibrar y wor ld thought that l ibrar ians are tr adi tionally conser vative, wear ing glasses, and dressed in plain outf i ts, etc. But the image of myself and many other l ibrar ians could tel l the tr uth? that we are di f ferent and we are a fun group of individuals w ith energy, passion, and interests.

I am a dancer  and I l ike to dance Zumba, bel ly dance, waltz, r umba, salsa, and much more. I love to

express my feel ings through the music and dance movements. In the 2015 ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, I provided enter tainments in CALA Banquet on June 28, 2015 in

San Francisco Chinatow n Imper ial Palace Restaurant. I was the belly dancer who contr ibuted two Middle-Eastern dances in the CALA Annual Event. I have been tr uly enjoying being myself on stage since I star ted learning dance 12 years ago. I t?s fun and enter taining and I 've per formed dance for over ten years. I encourage al l of you to pur sue your per sonal ambitions and interests.    

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(Photo on the upper r ight side: Sheau-yueh Janey Chao, the l ibrar ian.

Photos in the middle: Sheau-yueh Janey Chao, the belly dancer.)

"Hopef ul ly my 'Love of Lif e' coul d set up somet hing t o cheer up ot her s t o f ol l ow t he same way." - Sheau- yueh Janey Chao

Interviews

DANCE OF THE LIBRARIANAn interview by Sai Deng

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I hear d that you have som e col l abor at i on wor k w i th the pr evious CALA pr esident Car ol Gee, could you give us som e detai l s? Also, for how long and in what ways have you been involved in CALA?

Carol and I col laborated to w r i te a book about the histor y of Yuan family and we were suppor ted by two PSC-CUNY (The Professional Staff Congress at the City Univer si ty of New York) r esearch tr avel grants for the past few years by conducting oral histor ies and inter views of the descendants of President Yuan Shikai based on the col lected documents

and inter views. We had a book contract signed w ith Edw in Mellen Press. The book is expected to be published in 2016.

I ser ved as the CALA Nor thEast Chapter Vice-President (2001-2002) and President of Nor thEast Chapter (2002-2003), Edi tor -in-Chief of Occasional Paper Series (2014-2017).

I not i ced that you have m any publ i shed wor ks, can you tel l us m or e about your l i br ar i an wor k and r esear ch?

I am in charge of Cataloging at Baruch College Librar y in CUNY. I 've

been working here for 25 years. My research interests focus on Chinese family histor y, genealogy, overseas Chinese studies, Chinese migration histor y, international l ibrar y col laboration and resource-shar ing.   

(See my 2015 publications under the "Publications" column of this issue).

How do you m anage your t im e devoted to r esear ch and dance? What does a t ypi cal day or weekend look l i ke for you?

Besides being a ful l time l ibrar ian M-F, I am taking belly dance lessons on Monday and Wednesday evenings

(12 years) and practicing ballroom dances on Thursdays (10 years). On Saturday morning, I work out in the gym (10+ years) and cur rently teaching belly dance on Saturday afternoon (1 year ).

I work on my research studies and w r i tings on dai ly basis and also fol low up unfinished business on Sundays.  

Do you have any other hobbies? Is ther e anyth ing el se you 'd l i ke to shar e w i th your

fel l ow l i br ar i ans?

Other hobbies include tr avel (I lead dancing on Royal Car ibbean Cruise and Carnival Glor y to New England), mountain-cl imbing, hiking, camping, photography, choreography (lead group dance for my dance students), talking Spanish w ith native speakers, and cooking (make Chinese dumplings).

Here?s something else that I?d l ike to share:

I have great exper iences on proposal w r i ting and has been taking a role as l ibrar y proposal evaluator in New

York State for more than decades:

Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC), Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program (RBDB). Reading Team to evaluate l ibrar y grant proposals submitted to the New York State l ibrar y grant programs, 2001-Present.

Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Information Systems Advisory Group, Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program (RBDB). Reading Team for the evaluation of grant proposals provided by the New York State Librar y grant programs, 1999-2005.

I w i l l be glad to help CALA for funding proposals or being a consultant/ r eviewer / edi tor in publications, thanks.

(Photo on the left side: Janey was covered in World Journal for her lecture given on Sept. 20, 2015 w ith Carol Yuan Gee, 2015 CALA President.)

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Andrew Lam is one of the CALA 2014 Best Book Award w inners and his Two Sons of China tel ls a compell ing stor y of an Amer ican Soldier and a Chinese Communist as they engage the Japanese in guer r i l la war fare dur ing Wor ld War II . I t is based on the l i ttle-know n, r eal-l i fe Amer ican Dixie Mission of 1944.

How did you get to hear about the Chinese Am er i can Libr ar ians Associat i on (CALA) and decide to subm i t an ent r y to the CALA Best Book Awar d?

When I star ted w r i ting my f i r st book, Saving Sight, about my work as an eye surgeon, I googled ?Chinese Amer ican authors? because I was cur ious about who was out there. Through that search I discovered CALA. Later on, my publisher and I thought Two Sons of China could be a good candidate for the book award.

We not i ced that you took an atypi cal r oute to becom e a novel i st , what do you th ink the biggest chal l enge in your path?

In my day job I?m a r etinal surgeon. I also have four kids. A lot of people f igure my biggest challenge is f inding

the time to w r i te, but i t?s not. For me, the r ate-determining step as a w r i ter is always inspir ation. You never know when you?ll come across a stor y that gets you really exci ted because you just have to share i t w i th other s. You can?t predict when you?ll be str uck by a great idea for a new stor y. When these special moments happen to me, the

w r i ting seems almost effor tless.

For example, although I?d long-aspir ed to w r i te a book that would help people better understand WWII in China, i t wasn?t unti l I discovered the tr ue stor y of the Dixie Mission? a group of Amer ican off icials sent to Yenan to investigate Mao?s Communist guer i l la f ighter s in 1944? that a l ight bulb went off in my head and I r eal ized that this could be the basis for a great stor y about a war -time fr iendship between two soldier s, one Amer ican and one Communist Chinese. After this epiphany, I couldn?t wait to get star ted w r i ting i t.

As a Chinese Am er i can, does your i dent i t y af fect your subjects and your appr oaches in w r i t i ng novels and how?

All w r i ter s w r i te best about what they know. I am an exper t at a few things. I?m a professional eye surgeon. I know what i t?s l ike to be a son, husband, and father. I studied mi l i tar y histor y at Yale. And I?m Chinese Amer ican. Al l of these elements f ind their way into my w r i ting because these facets compr ise who I am as a person.

So yes, being Chinese Amer ican informs a lot of what I w r i te. Even though I have never l ived in China and have never inter viewed a Chinese sol ider from WWII, I have a l i fetime of exposure to Chinese culture and histor y that enabled me to w r i te know ledgably about this time and place.

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(Photo on the left side: Andrew Lam.)

"I f ind sur ger y chal l enging and st imul at ing. But I've f ound wr it ing t o be ver y f ul f il l ing as wel l ." - Andr ew Lam

Interviews

INSPIRATION OF A SURGEON An interview by Sai Deng

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For Two Sons of China , did you wor k towar d your ending or did you f i nd the ending dur ing the w r i t i ng pr ocess? How do you weigh?the value of r esear ch, ex per iencing and im aginat i on i n cr eat i ng your epi c novel??

I knew from the outset that I wanted my novel to be about an Amer ican soldier and a Chinese guer i l la f ighter who star t out w ith nothing in common but form a brotherhood in battle that is severely tested by outside for ces beyond their control. I knew that at the end of the book these two heroes would make great sacr i f ices for each other, and I actually pictured the ending scenes of my book ver y ear ly on.

For me, the histor ical r esearch that goes into w r i ting is not only ver y

impor tant? i t?s also the most fun par t of a project for me. I t?s a thr i l l anytime I can include actual histor ical events, character s, and conversations into my nar ratives. In Two Sons of China, show ing the perspectives of Mao, Zhou Enlai , and the r eal Amer icans who interacted

w ith them was one of my goals. And much of what I w rote about the Dixie Mission r eal ly happened that way.

What does w r i t i ng?m ean to you in your l i fe? What would you tel l people about the im por tance of Libr ar ies? What do you have to say to the Chinese Am er i can l i br ar i ans?

In my day job, I gain a lot of fulf i l lment from helping my patients. I f ind surger y challenging and stimulating. But I?ve found w r i ting to be ver y fulf i l l ing as well . Wr i ting al lows me to be creative, to share my know ledge of histor y w ith other s, and to convey my passion for

cer tain stor ies that I think ever yone should know about.

Librar ies are one of the best insti tutions in our society. As a chi ld, I spent many hours in the l ibrar y r eading ever y nonfiction book in the kids? section that I could f ind. I think Chinese Amer ican l ibrar ians play a ver y impor tant role because i t?s so impor tant to ser ve the needs of this community. Opening r esources and improving their accessibi l i ty to this ethnic group improves know ledge, engenders civic engagement, and enhances our society. So THANK YOU

for al l you do to accomplish these impor tant goals!

(Photo on the left side: Cover of Two Sons of China.)

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Jour ney back f r om t he Hacking: CALA's Websit es and Syst ems af t er t he Hacking on July 7, 2015

Weiling Liu, CALA Webmaster (2015-2016)

On July 7, 2015, as we know, CALA?s main website and a few other si tes were unfor tunately hacked and went dow n. A few weeks later, the main website and some l istser vs were up on a new Web address (web-cala.org). We changed the website hosting provider after the hacking due to many reasons. After

exper iencing w ith the new provider for about one month, we felt that the exper ience was posi tive and moved to the new ser ver. Dur ing the past few months, al l possible r estor ing effor ts have been made. Now the main website, membership database system, chapter websi tes and a few other application systems are back to business. The systems/websites that are cur rently avai lable include the fol low ing:

1. Main website: http://cala-web.org

2. Intr anet (Membership Database) https://intr anet.cala-web.org (used to be my.cala-web.org)

3. Voting/Sur vey system

4. CALASYS (CALA Academic Resource & Repositor y System): http://i r .cala-web.org

5. CALAlist: calal ist@cala-web.org

6. Internal l istser vs for the Board, Chair s and Chapter presidents

7. Chapter websi tes

a. GMA: http://gma.chapter s.cala-web.org/

b. MW: http://midwest.chapter s.cala-web.org/

c. NCA: http://nca.chapter s.cala-web.org/

d. SCA: http://w w w.southerncali fornia.cala-web.org/

e. SE: http://w w w.southeast.cala-web.org/

f . SW: Southwest Chapter (SW)

Due to some technical hurdles, the main website was not able to be r estored as before. The new banner was adopted w ith customizations from a draft design created by Tingting Peng, a student at the Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign. Al l the pages need to be r el inked. Although most public pages are now avai lable, there are sti l l many broken l inks. The Web Committee is working di l igently on getting al l the pages restored. I would l ike to

take this oppor tuni ty to thank Tingting Peng for her f ine design, and thank the Web Committee members for their hard work in r estor ing the pages whi le car r ying out their routine assigned tasks. Thank you, ever yone, for your patience and understanding.

Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would l ike to discuss w ith or show to other congress attendees? Why not present your work in the IFLA Poster Sessions?

The Congress Organiser s are now Call ing for Applications to hold a Poster Session at the Congress that is to be held in Columbus, OH in the USA from 13-19 August 2016. 

Presenter s of a poster w i l l be expected to be present on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 August 2016 in order to explain their poster and to hand out any leaflets, or other information mater ials, they have avai lable for viewers of their poster. Each presenter can therefore only present one poster.

Full detai ls of the Call for Poster Session Applications as well as the online application form can be found on the IFLA WLIC 2016 website.

Applicants are asked to descr ibe how they intend to i l lustr ate the project in the poster format. The poster has to be an exper ience in i tself for the one who looks at i t?and should show awareness of the format of a poster -session and i ts purpose.

Deadl i ne The deadline for applications is 01 Februar y 2016. Quest ions? Please contact: poster s@if la.org.

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Cal l f or Post er Session Appl icat ions IFLA Wor l d Libr ar y and Inf or mat ion Congr ess 2016?Col umbus, OH, USA

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CHICAGO ? The Amer ican Librar y Association (ALA) has been awarded a 2015 Laura Bush 21st?Centur y Librar y Program grant from the?Insti tute of Museum and Librar y Ser vices?(IMLS). The $50,000 grant w i l l be used to provide 50 $1,000 scholar ships to help a diver se group of l ibrar ians, l ibrar y staff and l ibrar y students in the United States attend the?International Federation of Librar y Associations and Insti tutions?(IFLA)?Wor ld Librar y and Information Congress?(WLIC) in Columbus, Ohio,?Aug. 13-19, 2016. Laura Bush Program grants suppor t the r ecrui ting and educating of l ibrar y students, continuing education for those alr eady in the profession, r esearch and new programs that bui ld insti tutional capaci ty.

Fellowship grants w i l l be provided to individuals in the ear ly or middle stage (20 years or fewer ) of their careers who are not alr eady actively engaged in IFLA. The project w i l l help to ensure the next generation of par ticipants and leaders on the global stage from the United States ful ly r epresents the diver si ty in the community and countr y. Only U.S. ci tizens and permanent r esidents of the United States w i l l be el igible to r eceive these scholar ships.? The scholar ships w i l l help cover costs r elated to tr avel, hotel, meals and registr ation. Interested par ties are invi ted to?apply?by the?deadline of?Dec. 31, 2015.

This grant (IMLS grant number RE-00-15-0108-15) is par t of a larger scholar ship program led by the IFLA 2016 National Committee to fund at least 50 ful l scholar ships to l ibrar ians from around the wor ld, pr imar i ly from developing countr ies, as well as 50 additional $1,000 scholar ships for Nor th Amer ican l ibrar ians beyond those funded by the IMLS grant. Over 90 l ibrar y associations, l ibrar ies, and l ibrar y foundations have pledged $400,000 to date.

Contact:

Michael Dow ling,

Dir ector

mdowling@ala.org

International Relations Off ice

ALA awar ded IMLS gr ant f or IFLA 2016 Congr ess Fel l owships

News & Announcements

IFLA 2016 Nat ional Commit t ee Fel l owship Gr ant Appl icat ion

(Application l ink: http://2016.i f la.org/congress-information/conference-par ticipation-grants

/i f la-2016-national-committee-fel lowship-grant-application)

The IFLA 2016 National Committee, through generous donations from the Nor th Amer ican l ibrar y community, w i l l offer up to 50 ful l fel lowships to l ibrar ians from outside Nor th Amer ica (U.S. and Canada) to attend the IFLA 2016 Congress in Columbus, Ohio.

The fel lowship w i l l cover tr avel, accommodation, a per diem food al lowance, and conference registr ation fees. Pr ior i ty w i l l be given to younger professionals w ith a minimum of 5 years exper ience in the f ield of l ibrar ies who do not usually attend IFLA Conferences.

Applicants must be el igible to obtain a visa for tr avel. Applications should include a one-page Cur r iculum Vitae or r esume (including educational background), submitted as a PDF attachment; and a statement (250 words maximum) regarding how your professional col leagues in your countr y w i l l benefi t from your par ticipation in the IFLA conference.

The application deadline is 31 December 2015. Al l applications w i l l be acknow ledged via emai l upon receipt. Selection of the fel lows w i l l be made in Januar y 2016 w ith noti f ication in ear ly Februar y 2016.

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New CALA Member ship Dir ect or y Rel eased

September 2015

To recrui t and retain Chinese Amer ican Librar ians Association (CALA) members is always a par t of CALA?s str ategic plan. Ever y President and Executive Dir ector of CALA has exer ted great effor ts by ini tiating appropr iate programs throughout the years. Members in CALA Membership Committees, Fundraising Committees, and individual founders such as Dr. Tze-Chung Li and Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee have also contr ibuted tr emendous effor ts and time in this.

On behalf of the CALA Director y Task Force Committee, we are pleased to present you w ith the new 2015 CALA Membership Dir ector y. As of July 1, 2015, there are a total of 502 active/paid members. Among them, 269 are Li fe Members, and 233 Annual Members (which include 3 Insti tutional Members). In the United States, the total membership breakdow n is as fol lows: Nor theast Chapter has 72 members, Midwest Chapter has 67, Nor thern Cali fornia Chapter has 62, Southern Cali fornia Chapter has 52, Great Mid-Atlantic Chapter has 46, Southwest Chapter has 30, and

Southeast Chapter has 28. The USA membership r epresents 72.91% of the total CALA membership. For overseas and other countr ies, there are 155 members, which makes up 27.09% of the CALA total membership. You can f ind detai ls of the membership distr ibution percentage and compar ison between this dir ector y and the previous one published in 2012-2013 from the section of Review and Analysis of CALA Membership.

Like previous CALA Membership Dir ector ies, this new 2015 CALA Membership Dir ector y maintains the same str ucture and format for membership information. I t includes a descr iption of CALA Organization, a map of CALA Chapter s and areas in the United States, a Review and Analysis of Geographic Distr ibution of Members, Membership Dir ector y and Appendixes. Al l entr ies that are show n in the Dir ector y is draw n from the membership database.

We have many people to thank for the coming of this Dir ector y. We would l ike to thank Carol Gee, CALA president of 2014-2015, Lian Ruan, CALA President of 2015-2016, Li Fu, CALA Executive Dir ector 2014-2016, and the Executive Board for appointing this Dir ector y Task Force Committee and al locating funds to suppor t this project. Our special thanks go to Mar ia Fung and Esther Lee, Co-Chair s of CALA Fundraising Committee for di l igently r aising tr emendous funds to cover the pr inting cost. Special thanks also go to Wei l ing Liu, CALA Web Master, who helped retr ieve membership information and careful ly examine the information. Without the above people?s hard work, this project would not have happened.

We apologize in advance i f there is any mistake in your membership information included in this 2015 Dir ector y. We have tr ied our best to provide your information as accurate as possible. I f you have discovered any w rong information about your membership or have questions r egarding the Dir ector y, please don?t hesi tate to contact us. We would pass that information to the cur rent CALA Membership Committee and they w i l l update i t accordingly. We hope you f ind the Dir ector y a useful tool for activi ties in professional development, networking, communication, col laboration, and fr iendship. We also hope that you can keep this Dir ector y as a proof of sweet memor y of your long-time hard professional ser vices and as a proud CALA member. Your dedicated volunteer ser vices and your continuous endeavors to promote CALA and to maintain your CALA membership are greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your suppor t of CALA!

Yours r espectful ly,

Fu Zhuo, Michael Huang, Min Tong and Sai Deng, the CALA Director y Task Force Committee, 2014-2015

From the CALA Director y Task Force Committee, 2014-2015:

The 2013-2015 CALA Membership Directory was r eleased in September, 2015. About 110 copies have been mai led out per r equest. There are sti l l some left. I f you haven't r equested a pr int copy, and would l ike to have one, please emai l Min Tong (Min.Tong@ucf.edu) and/or Sai Deng (saideng@gmail.com). The fol low ing ar ticle is or iginal ly published as "Preface" of the Dir ector y. For an over view of the membership status as of July 2015, please check out "A Review and Analysis of CALA Membership" (P. 46-47).

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Cal l f or Appl icat ions: 2016 Chinese Amer ican Libr ar ians Associat ion (CALA) Schol ar ships

Application Deadline:?Mar ch 6, 2016 Online Application URL:?http://my2.web-cala.org/node/11

Founded in 1973, the Chinese Amer ican Librar ians Association, an aff i l iate of Amer ican Librar y Association, is pleased to announce the avai labi l i ty of i ts 2015-2016 scholar ships:

- The CALA Scholar sh ip of Libr ar y and In for m at ion Science (This scholar ship awards $1000 to a ful l-time student at an ALA-accredi ted l ibrar y school. )

- The Shei l a Suen Lai Scholar sh ip of Libr ar y and In for m at ion Science (This scholar ship awards $500 to a ful l-time student at an ALA-accredi ted l ibrar y school.)

- Li sa Zhao Scholar sh ip Fund (This scholar ship awards $500 to a ful l-time student at an ALA-accredi ted l ibrar y school.)

- The Huang Tso-ping and Wu Yao-yu Resear ch and Scholar sh ip (This scholar ship awards faculty and students at the Wuhan Univer si ty, China. One award is for a l ibrar y school faculty member ($400) and two awards go to l ibrar y school students ($200 each.)

These scholar ships are designed to encourage professional and leadership development in Chinese Amer ican l ibrar ianship. They are open to ful l-time students of Chinese her i tage who are cur rently enrol led in an ALA-accredi ted master 's or doctoral program of l ibrar y and information science at an insti tution of higher education in Nor th Amer ica (w ith the exception of?The Huang Tso-ping and Wu Yao-yu Research and Scholar ship). The recipient must be enrol led as a ful l-time student at the time the scholar ship is awarded. Applicants may apply for any or al l of the

scholar ships l isted above. Al l scholar ships are awarded in U.S. dol lar s.

To apply, please go to?http://my2.web-cala.org/node/11? to access the application guidelines, application forms and reference forms. The application deadline is?12AM?Central Time?March 6, 2016. The recipients w i l l be announced by?Apr i l 30, 2016?and the awards w i l l be presented at the CALA Awards Banquet dur ing the 2016 CALA Annual Conference. I f you have any questions, please contact the 2015-2016 CALA Scholar ship Committee:

Vincci Kwong (Co-Chair )?vkwong@iusb.edu?Indiana Univer si ty South Bend

Jennifer Zhao (Co- Chair )?jennifer.zhao@mcgi l l .ca?McGil l Univer si ty

Huifen Chang?huifen.chang@okstate.edu?Oklahoma State Univer si ty

Yuet Tran?yuet.tr an@stonybrook.edu?Stony Brook Univer si ty

Li jun Xue?lxue@madonna.edu?Madonna Univer si ty

Sharon Yang?yangs@r ider.edu?Rider Univer si ty

Suoling Zhu?zhusuoling@njau.edu.cn, Nanjing Agr icultural Univer si ty

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2016 pet er son announcement

The Donald Peter son Student Travel Award Subcommittee invi tes applications from ar chival science students and recent graduates of ar chival programs.? The award subsidizes tr avel to the SAA Annual Meeting for students presenting r esearch or actively par ticipating in an SAA-sponsored committee, section, or roundtable.

Award and application information fol low below.? The application deadline is Februar y 28, 2016.? If you have any questions r egarding the award or the application process, please contact Rachel Howard, Donald Peter son Student Travel Award Committee Chair, at r achel.howard@louisvi l le.edu.

Pur pose and Cr i ter i a for Select i on

Established in 2005, this award suppor ts students and recent graduates from graduate ar chival programs w ithin Nor th Amer ica to attend SAA?s Annual Meeting. The goal of the scholar ship is to stimulate greater par ticipation in the activi ties of the Association by students and recent graduates. This par ticipation must include ei ther a presentation of r esearch dur ing the Annual Meeting or active par ticipation in an SAA-sponsored committee, section, or roundtable.

El igibi l i t y

Awarded to an SAA member in good standing who is cur rently enrol led in an ar chival education program or who graduated from an ar chival education program in the previous calendar year. Applications are evaluated based

on the mer i ts of the applicant?s essay and letter s of r ecommendation.

Sponsor and Funding

The Society of Amer ican Archivists, in honor of Donald Peter son (1908-1999), New York law yer and phi latel ist, whose deep appreciation of wor ld histor y and preser vation developed ear ly through his stamp collecting and held tr ue throughout his l i fe.

Pr i ze

Up to $1,000 in suppor t of r egistr ation, tr avel, and accommodation expenses associated w ith the SAA Annual Meeting.

Fi r st Awar ded

2006

Appl i cat i on For m and Docum entat i on

Submit three copies of the fol low ing to the address on the application form:

A 500-word essay descr ibing the applicant's career goals and potential impact on the ar chival profession.

Unoff icial tr anscr ipt to ver i fy student status or copy of graduate diploma.

Two letter s of r ecommendation from individuals having defini te know ledge of the applicant's quali f ications. Application form.

Application Deadline

Febr uar y 28, 2016

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Join "CALA" on WeChat !

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CALA Mater Calender get s a new look!

A re-designed and updated CALA master calendar (prel iminar y) is now avai lable online. The new calendar uti l izes Excel spreadsheet to indicate key deadlines that are impor tant or signi f icant to the CALA community. Contact heather.cai@mcgi l l .ca, Chair of the Collaboration and Organizational Development Ini tiatives Task Force, i f you have any comments or suggestions.

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Cal l f or Donat ion f or CALA

Dear CALA members,

The CALA Public Relations and Fundraising Committee (CALA PRFC) has a good tr adi tion to r aise funds to suppor t al l kinds of CALA programs through grants, scholar ship, and awards. These include but not l imited to programs such as Sally C. Tseng Professional Development Grant, Best Book Award, and Outstanding Librar y Leadership Award in Memor y of Dr. Margaret Chang Fung.? Your donation to CALA is tax-deductible.

For the 2015-2016 term, the Committee sti l l sets the pr imar y goal as money donation, whi le time donation (volunteer work) is also welcome. We encourage each CALA member to par ticipate in any of the fol low ing:?

(1) You can donate online by f i l l ing out the CALA online Donation Form at:?http://my2.web-cala.org/node/7

(2) 0.5% of your buying value w i l l be r eturn to CALA i f you make a purchase at Amazon.com through the CALA gate: http://smi le.amazon.com/ref

=smi_ge_r l_rd_gw ?_encoding=

UTF8&ein=23-7417422&ref_=

smi_ext_ch_23-7417422_cl

(3) You can donate money to set up special programs for CALA, and the CALA PRFC w i l l be working w ith you on the detai ls

(4) For any time donation/volunteer

work, please repor t to your chapter President, and you may also want to r epor t i t in your IRS Tax Fi l ing (Chapter Presidents are encouraged to add this i tem to their semi & annual r epor t)

For fur ther information including the CALA Donation Policy, please visi t CALA?s donation page:?http://w w w.cala-web.org/donate.

Please feel fr ee to contact the Co-Chair s of the CALA Public Relations and Fundraising Committee (CALA PRFC 2015-16) for any comments and suggestions: Hanrong Wang (emai l:?hwang@jsu.edu, phone:?256-782-5250) Xiaoyu Duan (emai l:?xduan@ou.edu,?phone:?217-418-9984)

Thank you! Your time and concern is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Hanrong Wang (Co-Chair ),?hwang@jsu.edu, Jacksonvi l le State Univer si ty

Xiaoyu Duan (Co-Chair ),?xduan@ou.edu, Univer si ty of Oklahoma at Norman

Sam Suber,?suber trooper@gmail.com, The Lew is Univer si ty

Xin Xiang,?stonexiang@google.com, Google

Zhao Xing,?babla_zx@163.com, Bei jing Normal Univer si ty

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Libr ar ies: Enabl ing Pr ogr ess The 8t h Shanghai Int er nat ional Libr ar y

For um Cal l f or Paper s Fir st Announcement

The 8th Shanghai International Librar y Forum (SILF2016) w i l l be held on July 6-8, 2016 at the Shanghai Librar y. Organized by the Shanghai Librar y (Insti tute of Scienti f ic and Technical Information of Shanghai) and co-organized by the Shanghai Society for Librar y Science and the Shanghai Society for Scienti f ic & Technical Information.

The theme of the forum is "Libr ar ies: Enabl i ng Pr ogr ess". The conference w i l l focus on hot issues and topics, the latest r esearch achievements, innovative ideas, advanced technology and the latest developments r elated to the theme and conduct in-depth and extensive academic discussions. Well-know n exper ts and scholar s w i l l be invi ted to present keynote speeches and thematic r epor ts. To ensure the academic quali ty of this forum and attr act more submissions, scholar s of l ibrar y and information science, managers of l ibrar ies and information agencies, and professionals from al l f ields at home and abroad are invi ted to submit papers and attend the conference.

I. Topics of the Conference 1. Smar t l ibrar y constr uction 2. Public cultural ser vice in the digi tal environment 3. "Internet +" ser vices in the big data era 4. Inclusive design 5. Librar y r esource development and know ledge organization 6. Inter connected and integrated l ibrar ies: convergence and cross-boundar y

I I . Paper Subm ission Guidel i nes 1. The paper to be submitted must be the or iginal work of the author (s), closely r elated to the theme of the conference and are not published on any journals at home or abroad, or given as a speech at any conference. The paper does not involve any classi f ied information, there is no plagiar ism, and the author takes sole r esponsibi l i ty for his or her views. 2. The paper contains 5,000 words or less, including an abstr act of 300 words or less in English or Chinese. Please indicate the topic of your paper. 3. The paper should be ar ranged in the fol low ing order : ti t le, author?s organization and name, author?s mai l ing address and zip code, abstr act,

keywords, text (sections indicated w ith numbers, such as 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 ......) and references. 4. The paper should be in Word format and submitted in electronic form to the contact e-mai l of the Conference Organizing Committee. 5. Authors agree that the SILF Organizing Committee can revise or edi t their papers and publish the papers accepted on the SILF website in PDF format, unless the Organizing Committee is other w ise noti f ied.? 6. Deadline for the submission of abstr acts:

Febr uar y 15, 2016

7. Deadline for the submission of ful l papers:

Mar ch 31, 2016

All papers w i l l be r eviewed by the forum's Academic Committee. Accepted papers w i l l be formally published in pr int in the conference proceedings.

I I I . Confer ence date and venue Date: July 6-8, 2016 July 6, 2016: Registr ation July 7, 2016: Opening ceremony, keynote speeches, plenar y meeting r epor ts July 8, 2016: Sessions and closing ceremony Venue: Shanghai Librar y (1555 Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai, China 200031)

IV. Secr etar iat Contact: Ms. Jean Jin (Overseas), Tel: 86-21-64454500 Shanghai Librar y International Off ice Ms. Shu Rui (Domestic), Tel: 86-21-64455309 Shanghai Librar y Research Off ice Emai l: si l f2016@libnet.sh.cn Fax: 86-21-64455006 Conference website: http://w w w.l ibnet.sh.cn/si l f2016

Shanghai Librar y (Insti tute of Scienti f ic and Technical Information of Shanghai) Organizing Committee of the 8th Shanghai International Librar y Forum August 2015

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Cal l f or Appl icat ions: 2016 CALA Jing Liao Awar d f or t he Best Resear ch

Dear CALA members,

The CALA Jing Liao Award for the Best Research Committee is now accepting applications through March 31, 2016 for r esearch published in 2015.

The pursui t of excellence in r esearch and ser vice was what defined the career of Jing Liao (1954-2011), a long-time CALA member and a devoted and accomplished l ibrar ian at the Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign. The establishment of this memor ial fund honors the memor y of Jing Liao by encouraging CALA members to str ive for excellence of r esearch in al l media.

CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years are el igible for the competi tion that awards $500 annually. This year, awardee w i l l also r eceive an additional $500 supplemental tr avel grant i f he/she w i l l par ticipate in the 2016 ALA/CALA Annual Conference in Or lando, FL. The Jing Liao Supplemental Fund is donated by the fol low ing companies:

Bei j i ng Zhenben Technology Co. Ltd.

China Inter nat i onal Book Tr ading Cor por at i on

Tr ansm ission Books & Micr oin fo Co., LTD.

We acknow ledge their generous donations.

The deadline for 2016 submission is March 31, 2016. The applications may be submitted to the co-chair s or any of the Committee members l isted below. The w inner w i l l be announced pr ior to the ALA annual conference in Or lando. The award w i l l be presented and a ci tation r ead at the CALA Awards Banquet in June 2016.

Awar d Guidel i nes for 2016

An award in the amount of $500 w i l l be granted to the author (s) of the w inning publication in 2016;

A supplemental tr avel grant in the amount of $500 w i l l be awarded to the author (s) to attend the 2016 Annual CALA Award Banquet w ith proof of attendance in Or lando, FL.

Applicants must be CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years, including the award year (i .e. 2016);

Applicants must demonstrate excellence in scholar ly r esearch by publishing works in any media (e.g. pr int, multi -media, or e-Journals including Open

Access journals);

Applicants may submit one single work (in ei ther English or Chinese) published in 2015 for consideration;

Applicants must not be past r ecipients of the award.   

Select i on Cr i ter i a

1. Or iginal i ty of the r esearch;

2. Quali ty and thoroughness of the r esearch and i ts presentation;

3. Contr ibution to the subject f ield;

4. Signi f icance to the l ibrar y profession and to the l ibrar y community.

Please submit the fol low ing documents to the committee co-chair s: Yingqi Tang (tang@jsu.edu), Mei Wang ( meiw @umich.edu )

A shor t cover letter including a statement of your CALA membership histor y and cur rent status;

Full-text of your publication in PDF format;

A complete ci tation of your publication in Chicago, APA, or MLA style, including i ts DOI l ink or URL i f avai lable;

A copy of your r ecent cur r iculum vi tae.

The submission guideline is avai lable at http://web-cala.org/cala under ?Awards?. I f you have any questions, please feel fr ee to contact any of the Committee members.

Yours Sincerely,

Jing Liao Award for the Best Research Committee, 2015-2016:

Yingqi Tang (Co-Chair ), tang@jsu.edu, Jacksonvi l le State Univer si ty

Mei Wang (Co-Chair ), meiw @umich.edu, Univer si ty of Michigan

Raymond Wang, r wang@ccbcmd.edu, Community College of Baltimore County

Ying Xu, yxu1@calstatela.edu, Cali fornia State Univer si ty Los Angeles

Liu Yan, yan.l iu1@maine.edu, Univer si ty of Maine

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CALA Receives Donat ion Fr om Tr ansmission Books And Micr oinf o Co., Lt d. by Yingqi Tang, Josie Tang

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CALA Resear ch Webinar : Pr act ical Resear ch Designs f or Libr ar ians

On behalf of the CALA board, the CALA Jing Liao Award for the Best Research Committee is pleased to announce i t has r eceived a $1000 donation from Transmission Books and Microinfo Co., Ltd. (TBMC) for the Jing Liao Award for the Best Research Travel fund. The fund is designated for suppor t Jing Liao Award r ecipient(s) par ticipating in ALA/CALA Annual Conference.

Transmission Books and Microinfo Co., Ltd. (TBMC) was established in 1981. In ear ly stage, TBMC pr imar i ly impor ted the foreign language books, academic publications, technical r epor ts and microf i lms from U.S., Europe and Japan, etc. In r ecent years, they have special ized in electronic publications & databases constr uction, and digi tal content integration & marketing. In addition to r epresenting internationally r enow ned electronic publications and databases, TBMC holds the mission to enr ich online Chinese language contents. In 2000, they formed an edi tor ial depar tment to develop a ser ies of Taiwan Study Databases. At present, TBMC provides over 80 Chinese language databases into f ive major categor ies.

Transmission dedicates to cultural innovation and targets to know ledge-based economy

as their goal; provides domestic and overseas customers high-quali ty digi tal contents and electronic publication ser vices.

?CALA highly appreciates the generous donation.? said Lian Ruan, president of CALA. ?CALA members benefi t from the donation. We w i l l continue seeking outside funding to suppor t members? professional development tr aining.?

Please join us in sending a HUGE THANK YOU to Transmission Books and Microinfo Co., Ltd. for their suppor t and generosi ty. I f you have any questions or concerns r egarding the Jing Liao Award, please contact the committee co-chair s, Ms. Yingqi Tang <tang@jsu.edu> or Ms. Mei Wang <meiw @umich.edu>.

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Mr. Felix Chu, Chairman, stands in front of Transmission Books & Microinfo Co., LTD. (? ? ?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ). (Photo provided by TBMC)

Sponsored by the CALA Professional Development Task Force, we are honored to have Dr. Yin Zhang speak to us on "Practical Research Designs for Librar ians".

Dr. Yin Zhang is a Professor at the School of Librar y and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State Univer si ty (KSU). She received her Ph.D. in Librar y and Information Science from Univer si ty of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign, and her B.S. and M.S. in Information Science from Wuhan Univer si ty, China. Her r esearch and teaching areas include user information-seeking behavior, information uses and ser vices, r esearch methods, information systems, and information organization. She has published over 50 ar ticles and col laborated w ith l ibrar ians. Her papers have won Association for Librar y and Information Science Education (ALISE) Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competi tion Award and Methodology Paper

Competi tion Award.

This webinar w i l l provide an over view of r esearch design pr inciples w ith an emphasis on choosing a r esearch topic, formulating r esearch questions (and hypothesis), selecting methods, and developing a plan to col lect data to answer the questions. Practical tips and examples w i l l be provided to i l lustr ate where to begin and how to define and car r y out a r esearch project.

Please register by the fol low ing l ink: https://kent.webex.com/kent/j.php?RGID

=r7f9e873592a436badf67b240d3fc295f.

CALA Resear ch Webinar

Tuesday, Decem ber 15, 2015

2:00 pm | Easter n Standar d Tim e (New Yor k , GMT-05:00)  |   1 hr

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Cal l f or Nominat ion f or 2015 CALA Best Book Awar d

The CALA (Chinese Amer ican Librar ians Association) Best Book Award Committee (BBAC) would l ike to invi te you to r ecommend books for the CALA 2015 Best Book Award. The goal of the Award is to promote awareness of the best books on Chinese topics or l i terature w r i tten in English or Chinese by authors of Chinese descent, and published or iginal ly in the Nor th Amer ica. Winners of the Award w i l l be

announced dur ing the 2016 CALA annual conference.

The committee members w i l l select the books in the categor ies of ?Fiction?, ?Nonfiction?, ?Juveni le Books (Age 12-18)?, ?Chi ldren?s Books (Age 12 and under ).? Each categor y of the Award consists of an award cer ti f icate and w i l l be presented at the CALA?s Annual Award Banquet in June, 2016. The l ist of w inners w i l l be posted on CALA

website, Facebook and Newsletter, and a press r elease w i l l be sent to var ious pr int or onl ine media.

Topics: r elate to Chinese culture, civi l ization, l i fe, Chinese Amer icans

and

more.

The submission guidelines and submission form? is?avai lable at http://cala-web.org under "Awards".

(Contemporary Chinese Art and The Three-Body Problem are among the w inning ti tles for the 2014 CALA Best Book Award.)

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2015 CALA Best Book Awar d Guidel ines Goal The goal of the CALA Annual Best Book Award is to promote awareness of the best books of Chinese topics or l i terature w r i tten by authors of Chinese descent, in English or Chinese language, that are or iginal ly published in Nor th Amer ica. Winners of the Award w i l l be announced by CALA dur ing the ALA annual conference.

Awar d Each categor y of the Award consists of an award cer ti f icate and w i l l be presented at the CALA Annual Award Banquet. A press r elease w i l l be sent to var ious pr int and online media. Honorable mentions may also be named in addition to the w inning ones. I f no el igible books are found to meet the selection cr i ter ia, no?awards w i l l be given.

El igible Wor ks

Works must be r elated to Chinese culture her i tage or deal w i th subjects about China, w r i tten by authors of Chinese descent.

Works el igible must have premier publication dur ing the calendar year of 2015 from Januar y 1 to December 31, and must be published for general commercial r elease by a publishing house, tr ade or small press/publisher located in Nor th Amer ica.

Nominations must be submitted to the Committee

using the Best Book Award Nomination Form by March 1st, 2016.

Works must be in Chinese or English. This r equir ement does not l imit the use of words or phrases in another language where appropr iate in context. Translations of or iginal works may be considered.

Works that have previously won other pr izes or r ecognition are also el igible.

Inel i gible Wor ks

Anthologies containing the work of more than one author.

Repr ints of books or iginal ly published pr ior to the cur rent award year.

Self-published works.

Entr y and Submission of Works

Entr ies may be submitted by an author, publisher, agent, publicist or any individual.

Nominations must be submitted to the Committee using the Best Book Award Nomination Form by March 1st, 2016.

An emai l address should be provided w ith each entr y.

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Upon receipt of the entr y, the Award Committee w i l l noti fy the submitter to acknow ledge the r eceipt of the submission via emai l. The Award Committee is not r esponsible for lost submissions.

An author, publisher, publicist, agent or individual may submit more than one entr y per author, but not more than one entr y per book.

I t is encouraged to mai l books of entr y to the Best Book Award Committee, w ith three copies, one copy each to committee members for according categor ies. Al l nominated books must be post marked by March 1st, 2016.

Please label on the envelope ?CALA Best Book Award? when mai l ing book(s). I f you cannot mai l the book, please note i t in the nomination form. Mai l ing addresses of CALA Best Book Award:

For Fiction & Non Fiction, please mai l books to Sai Deng, HaiwangYuan, and Zhao Liu at the fol low ing addresses:

Sai Deng10564 Angler Ct.Or lando, FL 32825

Haiwang Yuan706 Cravens Librar yUniver si ty Librar iesWestern Kentucky Univer si ty1906 College Heights Blvd.Bow ling Green, KY 42101-1067

Zhao LiuCollection & Acquisi tion Ser vicesTexas A&M Univer si ty Librar iesCollege Station, TX 77843

For Juveni le (age 12-18) & Chi ldren?s (age 12 and under ) Books, please mai l books toLi junXue, Ning Zou, and Yuan Li at the fol low ing addresses:

Li jun XueMadonna Univer si ty Librar y36600 Schoolcraft Rd.Livonia, MI 48150

Ning ZouCrow n 104Dominican Univer si ty7900 West Division StreetRiver Forest, IL 60305

Yuan LiLew is Librar yWashington Rd & Ivy LanePr inceton Univer si tyPr inceton, NJ 08540

2015/2016 Best Book Award Committee

Yuan Li (co-chair ) yuanli80@gmail.com Zhao Liu (co-chair ) zl iu@neo.tamu.edu Sai Deng saideng@gmail.com Li jun Xue lxue@madonna.edu Ning Zou nzou@dom.edu Haiwang Yuan haiwang.yuan@wku.edu Amy Kuo akuo@ci.berkeley.ca.us

Lisa Zhao's Fight against Br ain Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

We would l ike to inform you? of? Lisa? Zhao's continuing f ight? w ith brain cancer and a?way to

help? her through this challenge. We learned?of Lisa?s condition from colleagues?in the Midwest Chapter and her needs?that include?a?home care?provider. Her

two older sister s r eturned?to? China? ear l ier? this month, and at the present time, her?husband, Shaw n,?and? son, Alan,? provide 24/7?home care.

Fr iends? of Lisa and col leagues from the Midwest Chapter?have set up a love fund to suppor t?her?and her fami ly. We?would appreciate greatly i f CALA members? or anyone who has ever?ser ved w ith Lisa on committees or?knows her?through other professional organizations?w i l l show your suppor t through? donations. We

sincerely hope to offer Lisa and her fami ly some help w ith her f ight against cancer and show our suppor t dur ing this crucial stage in her l i fe.?

The?love fund?is dedicated?to her medication, home care, and other r elated?expenses and has?been set up at: http://w w w.gofundme.com

/9m3funfy.

A news ar ticle in Wor ld Journal (Chicago edi tion) has also been published: http://tinyur l.com/p3jbyh5?(in Chinese)

UIC Librar y Faculty Prof i le: Lisa Zhao (- pr ior to July 2014): http://r esearchguides

.uic.edu/c.php?g=252441

Sincerely,

Vickie Doll on behalf of Lisa's fr iends and?CALA?MW Chapter?colleagues

Chinese and Korean Studies Librar ian, International Collections

Univer si ty of Kansas Librar ies

vdoll@ku.edu

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