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CALA Newsletter No. 117, Fall 2017

CAL A N ewslet ter

CONTENTSMessage from the CALA President

Exclusive Interviews

Announcements

Awards

Publications and Presentations

Conferences and Travels

Chapter Highlight

Library and Librarian Stories

CALA on Social Media

CALA Newsletter (ISSN: 0736-8887) is the official publication of the Chinese American Librarians Association. It is published twice a year in spring and fall.

URL: http://cala-web.org/newsletter

President: Le Yang, [email protected]

Vice President /President Elect: Ying Zhang, [email protected]

Executive Director: Lian Ruan, [email protected]

CALA Newsletter Editorial Team

Co-Editor: Ray Pun, [email protected]

Co-Editor: Yingqi Tang, [email protected]

Layout Editor: Xiaoyu Duan, [email protected]

Layout Editor: Xiying Mi, [email protected]

HIGHLIGHTS? International Leads

? News Report BALIS 2017

? IFLA Reports

? Exclusive Interviews of 2017 CALA Award Winner

? Lian Ruan Won a Number of Honors

? Versatile Librarian: Qi Chen Preformed with the Corsstalk Artist Kun Jiang

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Message from the CALA President

Chinese American Librarians AssociationNovember 10, 2017

Dear CALA members,

It is a great honor for me to serve as the 2017/2018 President for the Chinese American Librarians Association. I would like to thank you all for your trust, and electing me for the position.

Thanks to CALA?s previous and senior leaders, CALA has progressed firmly to today?s position, embracing hundreds of scholars in library and information sciences that have made great impacts to both the academic field and to the society. Within this year, I hope to continue CALA?s good traditions of engaging our members through all kinds of collaboration projects and networks, providing more opportunities for CALA members to participate in all levels of professional development.

Same as all of CALA members, CALA leaders and myself sincerely hope that our organization can move forward firmly, which requires a sustainable operating model, and a stable structure advancing with the times. To reinforce the solid foundation for CALA, I have been working with our committees to update current documents, and establish procedures that guide CALA?s official activities, and taking actions to ensure CALA to progress on a healthy and positive track to a fruitful future.

CALA has been playing critical roles in many international activities in the field of librarianship. I will continue to work with CALA administration to promote CALA on the international stage and develop partnership and collaboration with more international organizations. In doing so, CALA reaches a broader domain to embrace more members from a diverse background; and in return, sends more members to the global society and contribute to the community of global citizens.

Sincerely,

CALA President 17/18

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Dora Ho Interview

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Dora Ho received 2016-2017 CALA Distinguished Service Award. Dora Ho is a young adult librarian/program specialist at the Los Angeles Public Library. She has served on Council as councilor-at-large since 2003. Ho has served on numerous ALA committees and was president of the New Members Round Table (NMRT) 2001-2002. She is also a member of the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), Public Library Association (PLA), as well as the California Library Association.

Ho is also the current President and was the Treasurer for Asian/Pacific American Librarians from 2013-2016 as well as Past President and Treasurer for the Chinese American Librarians Association.

Q1. What inspired you to start volunteering?

It is essential for librarians to become active in professional association. Volunteering seems natural to me. I started to volunteer at an early age in my middle school and high school libraries. I found it both rewarding and satisfying to give back to the community. Helping others are natural for librarians, we have the inner calling to devote our time and skills to help others.

When I first joined the UCLA work force, I worked as a Library Assistant. The library staff encouraged me to attend American Library Association conference and volunteer on committees. I first got involved with the New Members Round Table and that helped me to develop my leadership skills and I gained better knowledge and skills to perfect my job, thus to better serve our end users. At the same time, I continued my education at UCLA and received a Master in Library Science. Since then, I had joined many other professional associations such as CALA (Chinese American Librarians Association) and APALA (Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, and California Library Association.

Q2. Do you serve on any other organizations that are not related to your profession?

I would rather call these volunteering instead of serving in an official basis. I volunteer my time serving in my church choir and library. I organized the music scores collection for the choir. Our church library?s collections is equivalent to a small size seminary library. I staff the library almost every week with other volunteers. Occasionally I help to judge writing contests at local schools.

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Q3. How do you find time to commit to service activities?

I have great time management skills. I often cut down the tasks and projects into sizable chunks that I can complete them in five minutes or less intervals. I enjoy getting involve with many different things. I can hardly sit still or only work on one project at a time. However, I always put family first, they do take priority over anything. Family time is important to me.

Once a month, I volunteer my time at the Los Angeles Public Library - Central Library to conduct a K-Pop program for the teens in the Teen?Scape Department. My program focuses on Korean pop culture. Each month, the teens and I would look at the current trend in fashion, music, and drama that are most popular in Korea. We usually have a great discussion on music or drama. Many of the teens that attend the program are fans of the K-pop music and drama, which I also enjoy. In a way, I am combining my own interest into something that that I can teach and share.

Q4. What kind of projects are you working on now?

Currently, I am working with a talented group of colleagues from the five ethnic caucuses that are putting on the 2018 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color. The upcoming conference will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico from September 26 to 30, 2017.

Q5. In your various leadership roles in professional associations/ caucuses such as APALA, ALA, NMRT, and CALA, what are your management experiences in each group?

Each association and each individual is different from one another. Some are more hands on; some I can delegate, others work better as a group. It is really hard to say. However, I do enjoy working with everyone because each person is unique and different and it allows me to network and work with others.

Q6. Do you have any advice to new librarians just getting started?

Make sure you know when to say no. You don?t have to say ?Yes? to every committee. Sometimes you must know your own limit and don?t over extend yourself. Otherwise, you will easily burnt out. I would say, at the beginning just volunteer for one or two assignments that you are comfortable with and can easily handle. Then later on, you can take on more once you has the grasp of it. Often, if you start with something you are most interested it will also motivate you to complete the assignment and do well.

Q7. Do you have anything to share with us?

My advice about volunteering is to volunteer for something that you have the skills for or interest in it. Otherwise, it is hard to motivate yourself to do the tasks. For example, I am always interest in Finance, so most of the positions that I held are treasurers or financially related. However, once in a while you should step out of your comfort zone and try something new to see if you enjoy doing it. I had never dreamt to be a Councilor for ALA, and eventually served on the ALA Executive Board. My mentor encouraged me to attend one of the ALA council meeting and I deeply fell in love with governance (parliamentary procedures). So I have been serving as ALA Councilor-at-Large ever since 2003. I found that I can really serve each association in a way that I can contribute my skills and talents. Einstein once said, ?Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.? Living our life with a purpose and value is the best thing that we can do every day.


Crystal Chen Interview


Crystal Chen received the Lisa Zhao Scholarship Fund. Crystal Chen is

currently a MSLIS candidate at Pratt Institute and a Young Adult Library

Trainee at The New York Public Library. She received a BA in Fine Arts from Amherst College and

MFA in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz. Although she is an avid

comic book reader, her favorite 2017 book is the poetry collection When I

Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen.

She can be reached at [email protected] for

discussions about art, books, and anything in between.

Q1. How did you become aware of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) and what motivated you to join the association?

I learned about CALA through the Pratt Institute School of Information listserv. I joined the association because I wanted to get more involved with a national library community. I?m also committed to promoting diversity and advocating for underrepresented groups within the field of youth librarianship so it was important to be involved with a group with similar goals.

Q2. How did you know this scholarship opportunity?

A call for applications was forwarded to the Pratt listserv. My colleagues encouraged me to apply and I was happy I did!

Q3.What do you hope to accomplish while at graduate school? How can the CALA support you to meet your goals?

At Pratt, I hope to develop the skills I need to adapt and succeed in a growing and dynamic field. CALA has been instrumental in not only supporting me financially with this scholarship, but also serving as a source of inspiration. When I see how committed other Chinese American librarians are to their work and see their successes recognized and lauded, it inspires me and re-energizes my commitment to this field and to public service.

2017, recommending a book at NYPL?s Woodstock branch in the Bronx

2015, teaching teens how to print t-shirts during Teen Silkscreen at

NYPL?s Hamilton Grange branch in Manhattan



Q4. How long have you been a member of CALA? Have you participated in any professional development programs?

I became a CALA member early this year and look forward to being involved for many more years to come. Although I haven?t participated in professional development programs through CALA, I have participated in programs through my role as a Young Adult Library Trainee at The New York Public Library. I served on NYPL?s Best Books for Teens Committee for the last two years (and read a lot of amazing books as a result!). I am also currently volunteering as an extern at the Nolen Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to further develop my reference skills.

Q5. How do you benefit from the scholarship? (Did you go to any conferences? If so, which one(s)? What did you learn from it? Did you present at any conference? If so, what was the presentation topic? )

This scholarship has assisted me in paying some of my tuition fees. I also used part of the funds to pay for ALA, PLA, and YALSA memberships to further my involvement and commitment to library services. Beyond the monetary value, this scholarship has also empowered me to continue with my work, knowing that, in a place where Asian Americans are often underrepresented, I matter and my work matters.

Q6. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

After graduation, my goal is to become a NYPL librarian and to continue my work with teens and young adults at the Woodstock branch. Over the course of the next 5 years, I hope to build a dynamic teen department that is responsive to the needs of our Bronx community and find innovative ways to promote teen literacy. I hope to not only continue volunteering at the Met Museum, but to also devote time to volunteer with CALA, ALA, and YALSA. And most of all, I hope to see the teens at my library grow into successful young members of our community. As they strive to achieve their dreams, I will be cheering them on every step of the way!

Q7. Are you working on any projects that you want to share with us?

In December, NYPL?s Best Books for Teens list will be released and I?m extremely proud of our committee's accomplishments. We all fought for diverse books that represented the diversity of our New York teens and I?m proud of the strides that we made. I hope that the committee continues pushing forward and highlighting underrepresented narratives written by underrepresented authors.


When I?m not doing library stuff, I try to make art! My artwork can be viewed at www.crystalchenart.com, including a few artist books I?ve made. I also promote teen books and programs through my library?s Instagram page @nyplwoodstock.

Lastly, I want to say to the members of CALA: Your hard work and success inspires me every day. You?ve served as role models for me in the same way I hope to be a good role model to my teens. So, thank you!


http://www.crystalchenart.com

https://www.instagram.com/nyplwoodstock/

Dan Wu Interview


Dan Wu received the Huang Tso-ping and Wu Yao-yu Scholarship Memorial Fund. Dan Wu is a full Professor of Library and Information Science at Wuhan University. She is the chair of Library Science Department, School of Information Management. She is the National Youth Top-notch Scholar of China, and the Luojia Distinguished Profssor of Wuhan University. She graduated from Peking University with a PhD in Information Science, from Central China Normal University with an MSc in Computer Science and and two BSc in Information Science and Computer Science. She wasa visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. She is now a Fulbright Scholar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the team leader of Human-Computer Interaction Team of Wuhan University.

Prof. Dan Wu participates in numerous international and national activities, including past session chair of iConference, member of the

Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), member of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), member of the User Research and Service Committee of the Chinese Library Association, member of the Education Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Library Association, and the under-secretary-general of the Library Science Education Committee of the Chinese Library Association. She also serves on the member of the editorial board for journals of The Electronic Library, Journal of Convergence Information Technology, Journal of Data and Information Science, and Data and Information Management. She is the peer reviewer of several international journals, such as Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology, Online Information Review, The Electronic Library, Journal of Computer Information System, Aslib Journal of Information Management, Information Technology & People, Artificial Intelligence Review, Library Hi Tech, and Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

Her research interests span information retrieval, information behavior, human-computer interaction, multilingual information processing and information organization. Prof. Dan Wu is a productive scholar. She has published 7 books and over 150 papers on important academic journals and conferences, 21 of which are indexed by SSCI/SCI. She is the PI of over 20 projects which are funded by National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation of China, and so on. Due to the excellent work and study, Prof. Dan Wu receives many honors and awards including the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Scholarship for Excellent Teacher in 2017, the Best Chinese Paper Nomination Award of iConference 2017, and the Honorable Mentions Paper Award of iConference 2013, etc.




I have known about CALA for a long time. I remember the first time I heard of CALA was when Prof. Lian Ruan, the chief librarian of the Fire Service Institute Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, visited the School of Information Management at Wuhan University. She talked about CALA.

The very important motivation for me to join CALA is that it provides lots of information about library community in the USA. After I registered as a member, emails from CALA are sent to me everyday. Sometimes it?s about library recruiting and sometimes it?s about research related to library. Anyway, CALA helps me know more about practices and academics of American libraries and librarianship.


This scholarship has relationship with my work place. I work at the School of Information Management of Wuhan University and the Huang Tso-ping and Wu Yao-yu scholarship awards only faculty and students of the library school at Wuhan University. On the other hand, as far as I know, the scholarship founders were alumnus of my school. They graduated from Boone Library School which is the former of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University.

Q3. What do you teach in Wuhan University? How can the CALA support you to meet your goals?

For undergraduate students, I teach two courses called Information Description and Information System Design and Appliance. For graduate students, also two courses called Information Description Study and Information Retrieval. For PhD students, only one course called Human and Computer Interaction Study.

Winning the scholarship means a lot to me. It is not only the acknowledgement to my current work and research, but also the driven force to my future work

and study. Moreover, with the help of CALA, I?m acquainted with many peer scholars and CALA provides me the opportunity to collaborate with them.


Less than a year, to be honest. I?m totally a rookie. I am a member of ACM Professional Membership, ASIS&T and Librarianship Education Committee of Library Society of China. Also, I participant the Fulbright Scholarship Program as a visiting scholar.

Q5. How do you benefit from the scholarship? (Did you go to any conferences? If so, which one(s)? What did you learn from it? Did you present at any conference? If so, what was the presentation top? )

I was invited to do presentations in conferences such as SIGIR, CIKM, iConference, CSCW and JCDL. I?m going to attend JCDL 2018 at the University of North Texas with the support of the scholarship. The presentation I will make is about predicting OPAC users? cross-device transitions. This study investigated the users? interactions between device transition when using OPAC and analyzed the feature importance to predict the next device and user?s interaction after device transition.

Q6. Are you working on any projects that you want to share with us? (or) Do you have anything to share with us?

Sure. I?d like to introduce a project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), which studies the search behavior model and techniques in multi-device environment. This project aims at conducting empirical analysis of user?s search behavior on different devices and establishing the theoretical framework of search behavior under multi-device search environment to support cross-device retrieval of information. It is expected that this study can help prevent user?s search behavior being interrupted, improve the search efficiency and promote better Internet information services.


Yang Le Interview


Yang Le received 2017 Jing Liao Award for the Best Research.Le Yang is the President of Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), 2017-2018. He has been active with and providing services to CALA, IFLA, ALA, JCLC, and ACRL. Yang worked at Texas Tech University Libraries as the Head of Digital Lab and earned his tenure as a library science faculty . He is currently working as the Head of Digital Library & Collection Development at Wenzhou-Kean University. Yang?s research interests include digital librarianship, digital asset metadata, Internet discovery of digital resources, and web analytics. His research has been published in various scholarly journals and presented at national and international conferences. He has also served as editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer for

several journals in the profession of library and information science. He is actively engaged with and leading research grant activities.

Q1. Could you tell us briefly what is the subject of your research paper?

This study aims to find out what metadata elements facilitate the discovery of the digital items on the search engines, and how significantly each metadata element affects the discovery of items in a digital repository.

Q2. What keeps you motivated in conducting research in this field?

My research interests come from my practical work as a metadata librarian. The ultimate objectives of metadata implementation are to facilitate the indexing of search engines to ensure digital resources are more discoverable to end users. I was motivated to conduct research in this field by trying to be as efficient as possible.

Q3. What are you most excited about the future of digital repository/collection?

More and more organizations, including for-profit companies, NGOs, or government agencies, will eventually establish their own digital repository. Digital repository is the great way for archiving and distributing digital/ digitized files both internally and externally.

Q4. What challenges did you have to overcome to get your idea published?

Methodology design is the first challenge I met. With the research questions, I needed to develop a well-rounded methodology that can be carried out and be able to address the research questions. The second challenge is data analysis. I needed to manually do the backtracking by searching the keywords of successful visits against metadata records.



Q5. Have you ever been rejected by a journal? If so, what were the main reasons for the rejection? What did you do to resolve the problems?

Yes, quite a few times. Main reasons for the rejection include 1) the topic of manuscript does not fit the scope of the journal; 2) the audience of the journal won?t understand the manuscript; 3) the methodology design is not sound and sample size is too small, etc.

If the editor suggest a re-submission with major revision, I would follow the reviewers? suggestion and continue working on the manuscript to address their concerns. If the manuscript was completely rejected without a resubmission option, I would revise the manuscript by following the reviewers? comments and submit the revised manuscript to another journal.

Q6. What kind of projects are you working on now?

I am working with my colleague on a tutorial of utilizing web data released by journals to establish mathematical models for prediction of manuscript publishing time.

Q7. What advice would you give to colleagues working on a publication?

If you are working on a quantitative or qualitative paper, make sure the manuscript meets the requirement of a basic research paper structure. The literature review needs to be guiding the readers to your problem statements and research questions. You have to provide valid explanations on every detail of your methodology design. Integrate the research results with interpretation. Provide a meaningful and profound discussion on the research results and other relevant research. Point the direction for future research to either rectify the limitations of the current research or shed lights for current literature.


Adopt critical and innovative thinking for the daily duties. There are many interesting research topics coming from day-to-day work in the library?s traditional practice.


Hilda Loh-Guan Interview


Hilda Loh-Guan received the CALA Scholarship of Library & Information Science. Hilda Loh-Guan has over 15 years full time library experience as a paraprofessional. For the last 8 years, she has been a community library manager for the County of Los Angeles Public Library. Under Hilda?s direction, her community library saw a significant increase in programming for all ages. In 2016, with the support of her staff and library administration, she successfully implemented a weekly program targeted to adults with cognitive or developmental disabilities. She serves on several committees in her organization, including the Homeless Services Think Tank and the iCount Leadership Committee (removing barriers to equity @ the library).

In 2017, Hilda started the Master of Management in Library Information Science (MMLIS) program at the University of Southern California (USC), where she is currently the vice president of the ALA student chapter. Hilda also serves on 2 of ALA?s New Members Round Table (NMRT) committees. She is a proud recipient of the American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship, CLA Scholarship for Minority Students in Memory of Edna Yelland, and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Scholarship.

Hilda is a mom to Benjamin (8), Calvin (6), and Zachary (4)? and is a very active volunteer at their school.


I was searching for various financial aid and scholarship options, when I stumbled upon the listing for the CALA Scholarship. Until my entering the MMLIS program at the University of Southern California, I had not understood how important it was to connect with other professionals in the field. I didn?t realize there were others who were willing to support me in my academic and professional career. I didn?t realize I had something to offer to other librarians. So, when I begin looking through the CALA website and talking to other Chinese American librarians in my organization, I quickly learned that success in the profession is about actively participating and adding value to each other?s work. I knew I wanted that positive environment and network of people that is attuned to the joys & challenges of being Asian American in the profession? so I enthusiastically joined!


I literally stumbled upon it! What serendipity!



Q3.What do you hope to accomplish while at graduate school? How can the CALA support you to meet your goals?

I want to be leader? one that encourages my cohort members and other students in the MMLIS program. I want to learn as much as I can, as fast as I can? so I can always lend support and share knowledge with my peers. I want to take this knowledge and cultivate it into programs that impact the communities I work in (Los Angeles County). I want to get involved in ALA, CLA (California Library Association), and CALA, taking active roles in association work, initiatives, and projects. To me, librarianship starts now, not after I receive my degree. By selecting me for the scholarship award and appointing me to the leadership training committee, CALA is already helping me meet these goals!


I?ve been a member for about 1 year, and will be renewing! I attended Maureen Sullivan?s leadership talk during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. It was by far my favorite workshop at the conference, because all the participants asked thoughtful questions, and Ms. Sullivan answered each with so much grace and candor.

Q5. How do you benefit from the scholarship? (Did you go to any conferences? If so, which one(s)? What did you learn from it? Did you present at any conference? If so, what was the presentation topic?)

The scholarship helps me offset the very steep tuition at my institution. As a widowed single parent to three young sons (ages 8, 6, 4), being able to fund my education is stressful! I attended my 2nd ALA conference this year? my first was way back in 2007 (Washington DC). During this year?s conference, I attended not only workshops, but committee working meetings, the CALA membership meeting, and the awards gala. I learned to appreciate the conference not only as an event, but as an opportunity to work closely with others that I primarily only engage with on email or social media. I had a chance to chat with Dr. Lian Ruan, who gave me some great advice and encouragement!

Q6. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

I am pretty sure I am built to be a public librarian, that?s where my skill sets lie? although I am not counting out academic, legal, or special librarianship just yet. If my current trajectory holds true, I would love to be a higher level managing librarian (a librarian IV or V here in LA County), and be in training for library administration. The County of Los Angeles Public Library (who I have worked for since 1996) has been very supportive of my personal and professional goals, and I would love to be able extend this experience to those joining our organization and profession.

Q7. Are you working on any projects that you want to share with us?

In 2016, I pitched an internal grant to my library administration to build a program that serves adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities. It is a program that I am very proud of! My program, Step Up, provides 2 weekly events to this underserved demographic. By partnering with an adult care facility, we provide participatory art projects, interactive story times, STEM activities, sign language, and cultural/ entertainment performances? just to name a few! Each week, 70 ? 90 differently-abled adults walk through our doors and receive hands-on service! The purpose of my program is to make sure we are breaking down barriers to service, and to promote the idea that all are welcome to our library. The program has been a great success, and is now being replicated in many branch libraries in my system!


Announcements

It is time to say goodbye to my editorial service to the CALA Newsletter Editorial Team. Even though I left the Team after the 2017 Spring Issue, I have to say that working in the CALA Newsletter Editorial Team is one of my most wonderful service experiences.

I joined the CALA Newsletter Editorial Team one and half year ago, when Ms. Sai Deng asked whether I would like to seek for an opportunity to serve CALA official publishing. Then I joined the CALA Newsletter as a replacement of another retired newsletter editor. And my service term started from the 2015 Fall Issue, and ends at the 2017 Spring Issue.

As a former editor, I would like to share to the readers what CALA Newsletter Editorial Team has done in the past four issues, and I would like to conclude what we have done in the past as ?revolutions of CALA Newsletter publishing?.

First, we changed the way we present the Newsletter to readers. Before I joined Editorial Team, the CALA Newsletter Editorial Team used Microsoft Publisher as its main editorial tool, and the former Team created a simple template for editorial and publishing purposes. After I joined the Team, I and another editor decided to ?make things different?, and to ?publish a more ?journal-like? newsletter.? So, we quitted using Microsoft Publisher and found Lucidpress, an online print and digital publishing software. We have three reasons for choosing Lucidpress: 1) More templates than Microsoft Publisher; 2) Easier and shared editorial functions than Microsoft Publisher; and 3) Free and large cloud storage space for the Editorial Team. Creating a Lucidpress account is free, but the CALA Editorial Team has enough budget to update to an advanced account thus be able to enjoy more functions and cloud storage spaces than a free account. By using Lucidpress, the Newsletter Editorial Team is able to choose and further create a better template than before, and the editors can do editorial work online at the same time, instead of sending emails with Newsletter attachments back and forth. Finally, the editorial team is able to store the CALA Newsletter in the cloud while waiting for CALA Board?s review and approval of publishing. With the help of Lucidpress, the CALA Newsletter changed its interface as well as the total structure and has a clearer outline and dividers between sections, which facilitate the reading process of our users. (Picture 1,2, and 3)


Farewell message from the former CALA Newsletter editorXiaojie Duan

Announcements

Second, we changed the content we present the Newsletter to readers. In the past, the Newsletter works more like an archival document, not an entertainment reading material. The archival usage caused a big problem to the content of the Newsletter. Since the Newsletter only published twice a year (Spring Issue and Fall Issue), many CALA committees, task forces and sub-chapters would like to include their half-year as well as full-year-report-to-the-Board in the CALA Newsletter for archival purposes, which makes the newsletter exceed its length and size on the CALA website. Editors also need to create an extra section--?CALA Documents?, the biggest section in the CALA Newsletter--for these reports and strategic plans, and they spent more time on editing those reports and plans. Some reports and plans changed a little from the past year, which created duplicate contents in the Newsletter. Situation becomes better when the CALA Board decided to separate reports and plans from Newsletter, made the Newsletter a CALA publishing that focuses on notifications and summaries of important association news, awards and events. The Editorial Team created more sections in the Newsletter, including ?Interviews?, ?Library Stories? and ?Chapter Highlights?, thus to better showcase members? and chapters? achievements within 6 months. The Newsletter was also able to short its length and reduce its size thus to faster the loading speed on the CALA website. (Picture 4 and 5)

Third, we changed the strategy we present the Newsletter to readers. From 2015 Fall Issue to 2016 Spring Issue, only I and Ms. Sai Deng were serving in the Editorial Team, so the CALA Newsletter is not like a ?team work? but more like a ?two-people-assignment?. One of us was mainly responsible for article collecting and organizing, while another one was mainly responsible for formatting and designing. Even though we could make direct contact with each other, we couldn?t ask for others? opinions since there were only two of us. Editorial work sometimes became an assignment for both me and Ms. Sai Deng since both of us needed to finish our responsible parts within the limited editorial time period, thus also caused the lack of discussion and communication. Situation became better from the 2016 Fall Issue. Thanks for the help from the CALA President, she assigned three more members to us and made the whole group looks more like an editorial ?team?. Now three editors can focus on call for proposal and they can discuss article collecting together, while I and another editor can focus on designing and we two even created more templates for the Newsletter. Sharing work to five people makes the editorial work much easier and faster than sharing work to only two people, the Editorial Team can produce the qualified CALA Newsletter in time with less stress and worry of passing the deadline of submitting the Newsletter to the Board for review and approval of publishing.

Even though I left CALA Newsletter, I feel lucky that I gained my editorial experience in the Editorial Team. I witnessed the development of the Team and I am looking forward to the future of the Team. I wish CALA Newsletter all the best. Keep moving, CALA Newsletter and the Editorial Team!

Picture 2. CALA Newsletter after using Lucidpress

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Picture 5. ?Library Stories,? one newly added sections in 2016 Fall Issue that focuses on

association members? activities in their institutions

Picture 1. CALA Newsletter before using Lucidpress

Picture 3. Dividers used between different Newsletter sections

Picture 4. ?CALA Documents? in 2015 Fall Issue contains 47 pages

Picture 2. CALA Newsletter after using Lucidpress

Announcements


Say Goodbye to the OPS

The Board of Directors approved to discontinue the Occasional Paper Series (OPS) on August 2, 2017, with the result of 18 approved (85.71%), 2 disapproved, 1 abstained.1) The papers that were published with OPS will be made available and archived in CALA's Institutional Repository - CALASYShttp:/ / ir.cala-web.org/ .

2) The manuscripts that are still pending review will be completed reviewing and will be recommended to CALA's official scholarly journal - International Journal of Librarianship (IJOL)http:/ / cala-web.org/publications/ ijol-about

Announcements

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