2011-2012 CALA Presidential Initiatives

About Advisory Board Corporate Sponsors Awards Banquet Task Force Photos

Project News: International Outreach, Spectrum Fundraising, Emerging Leader 40/40 Project, Technology

About:

Diversity and Global Reach in a Digital Age: A Renewed Vision and Re-energized Commitment
The 2011-12 CALA Presidential Initiatives are derived from CALA's mission and are aimed at achieving CALA’s vision and strategic goals to make the organization a leading librarians' organization which advances diversity and equality of library services to the library communities worldwide through the excellence of this organization and its members. There are three key words/phrases in the theme of this year's CALA Presidential Initiatives: Diversity, International Collaboration, and Technology Integration. Theme related projects have been carried out by many CALA officers and members. CALA's activities and initiatives in diversity and international collaboration and outreach are also in line with the ALA strategic goals under the leadership of President Molly Raphael.

Advisory Board:

Betty Turock, Former ALA President, Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Michael Dowling, Director of the Chapter Relations and International Relations Offices, ALA
Miguel Figueroa, Director of Offices for Diversity and OLOS, ALA
Clara Chu, Chair and Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Michael Porter, President & CEO of Library Renewal, LJ Mover and Shaker 2009, elected ALA councilor and member of the Executive Board

Corporate Sponsors for 2011-12 CALA Presidential Initiatives:

SAGE Publications

Wisers Information Limited

Emerald Inc.

CALA Awards Banquet - Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:30-10:00PM
The 2012 CALA Awards Banquet held at King Harbor Seafood Restaurant was a huge success! Attended by about 140 library leaders and dignitaries, award honorees, friends and colleagues, this gala event celebrated the excellence in librarianship and the success in promoting diversity and international collaboration. Click here read more information about the Banquet (http://cala-web.org/node/1534#Banquet). Please view some photos at Flickr.

CALA would like to thank the generous support from the following Banquet Sponsors:

2012 CALA Awards Banquet Sponsors:

SAGE Publications

Bepress

EBSCO Publishing

East View Information Services

Emerald Inc.

Projects and Activities:
International Theme:

CALA Joined IFLA
CALA Co-Sponsored Global Children's Librarianship Conference, held on August 8-10, 2011 in New York City. CALA NE Chapter hosted 79 library administrators and librarians from China.
CALA Co-Sponsored Symposium on Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee's Thoughts on Librarianship, 李华伟博士图书馆学术思想研讨会, held on November 17, 2011 at the Shenzhen Library in Shenzhen, China
CALA Co-organizes “The International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology” with Tongji University
CALA announced Presidential Initiative Mini-Grant in the amount of $250 to CALA presenters at the International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology. Thanks to the support of SAGE Publications, Wisers Information Limited, and Emerald Inc.
International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology: Outcome of the review process
News Report on the American Libraries about the International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology
CALA’s signature program “21st Century Librarian Seminar Series” has been resumed after a two-year hiatus. A team has been selected for the seminar to take place from July 5-9, 2012 at Yunnan University of Nationalities, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.

Diversity Theme:

Food, Fun and Fundraising for Diversity
About: (click to read more)
CALA’s Food Fun Fundraising for Diversity initiative has raised $1,289 for the ALA Spectrum Scholarship Program. CALA received a letter of acknowledgement and appreciation from ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels.
- Thank You” to the following donors for their generous support:
  1. 1. CALA Southern California Chapter
  2. 2. CALA Northeast Chapter Holiday Party Group (click to see photos): Judy Xiao, Lina Ding, Xueming Bao, Hung-Yun Chang, Charlene Chou, Tian Zhang, Michael Huang, Yongming Wang, Li Sun, Paul Chao, Xiaoli Fang, Bonnie Fong, Minglu Wang, Min Chou, Frank Xu, Elizabeth Hsu, Loida Garcia-Febo, Mario Gonzalez, Esther Lee, and Carol Gee.
  3. 3. CALA Southeast Chapter
  4. 4. CALA Northern California Chapter
  5. 5. CALA Greater Mid-Atlantic Chapter
  6. 6. CALA Midwest Chapter
  7. 7. Individual Donors: Lina Ding, Min Chou, Songqian Lu, Sha Li Zhang, Li Zhang, Lian Ruan, Weiling Liu, Marian Chou, Maria Fung, Haipeng Li, Mengxiong Liu, Hwa-Wei Lee.
CALA Emerging Leader Project to Promote Diverse Leadership
CALA Sponsors Li and Kyauk as 2012 Emerging Leaders - ALA News
Each year, CALA submits a project proposal to the ALA Emerging Leaders Program for consideration. This year, the CALA proposal “A Prelude to Celebration: Project 40/40” (hereinafter referred to as Project 40/40) has been successfully selected as one to be worked on by this great team of the 2012 Class of Emerging Leader: Christopher Kyauk, Yuan Li, Candice Mack, and Laura Morlock. Project 40/40 will use interviews with both seasoned and emerging library leaders in CALA membership to generate 40 short quotes to celebrate CALA’s 40th anniversary. It aims to promote diversity in leadership and to provide role models to inspire new library professionals.

The Team has successfully presented the project. Please see their report, presentations and photos:

Technology Theme:

A Breakthrough: First CALA Board Virtual Meeting Via Webinar
Last fall, the Presidential Initiative Task Force had a “test drive” on using webinar to conduct online meetings, and the feedback was very positive. The webinar meeting will enable us to conduct a meeting more like an in-person one and get things done in a very effective manner. On February 24, 2012, CALA Board held its first webinar meeting and had much business taken care of within one hour. Thanks go to board members who embraced the "brave new world" to make the first Board webinar meeting a success! Special thanks go to Bin Zhang for his expertise and technical support to make it possible!
CALA Facebook
Thanks to Sai Deng's efforts, CALA is on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CALA-Chinese-American-Librarians-Association/281336511932864. You are welcome to visit us and send news or photos to Sai Deng to share with everyone.

Task Force:

Liana Zhou (Chair) zhoul@indiana.edu
Sai Deng saideng@gmail.com
Maria Fung m.fung@brooklynpubliclibrary.org
Nancy Hershoff sunn@fiu.edu
Haipeng Li haipeng4cala@gmail.com
Mengxiong Liu mengxiong.liu@sjsu.edu
Shuhua Liu shuhualiu2000@yahoo.com
Winyuan Shihwinyuans@usc.edu
Hanrong Wang hwang@jsu.edu
Bin Zhang bzhang@cscu.edu
Sha Li Zhang SLZHANG@uncg.edu
Luo Zhou luo.zhou@duke.edu

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