CALA - Chinese American Librarians Association 華人圖書館員協會

Sunday, June 26, 2011 from 1:30p.m. to 3:30p.m. in New Orleans, LA
About the Program  Speakers   Co-sponsors   Corporate Sponsors  Program Planning Committee  News Release

About the Program:
Embracing the Changes: Diversity and Global Vision in a Digital Age

The program is designed to spearhead changes within the library profession through meaningful discussions on challenges facing libraries today, such as issues of cultural diversity as related to the library profession, global outreach and collaboration, and impact of new technology on library services.

Keynote Speaker:

• Betty Turock, Former ALA President, Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University  [more information]

Panel Speakers:

• Michael Dowling,  Director of the Chapter Relations and International Relations Offices, ALA [more information]
• Miguel Figueroa, Director of Offices for Diversity and OLOS, ALA  [more information]
• Clara Chu, Chair and Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro [more information]
• Michael Porter, Web Junction, LJ Mover and Shaker 2009, elected ALA councilor and member of the Executive Board [more information]

Moderator:

• Min Chou, Chair of CALA 2011 Conference Program Committe, Vice President/President Elect of CALA 2010-11

• ALA Committee on Diversity
• ALA International Relations Committee
• ALA International Relations Office
• ALA International Relations Round Table (IRRT)
• American Indian Library Association
• Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
• Black Caucus of the American Library Association
• Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
• REFORMA - The National Association for Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking

Corporate Sponsors:

• CALA 2011 Annual Conference Program Announced (2-24-2011)

Program Planning Committee:

• Min Chou (Chair), New Jersey City University (minchou.njcu@gmail.com)
• Sai Deng, Wichita State University (saideng@gmail.com)
• Nancy Hershoff, Florida International University (sunn@fiu.edu)
• Haipeng Li, Rutgers University-Newark (haipeng4cala@gmail.com)
• Mengxiong Liu, San Jose State University (mengxiong.liu@sjsu.edu)
• Shuhua Liu, San Jose Public Library (shuhualiu2000@yahoo.com)
• Hanrong Wang,  Jacksonville State University (hwang@jsu.edu)
• Karen Wei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (kwei@illinois.edu)
• Yunshan Ye, Dickinson College (yey@dickinson.edu)
• Bin Zhang, California State University, Sacramento (bzhang@csus.edu)
• Liana Zhou, Indiana University, (zhoul@indiana.edu)

Please stay tuned as more information will be forthcoming.

Last updated: 3/9/2011