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

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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.

• Announcement of CALA 2011-2012 Presidential Initiatives
• CALA Launches 2011-2012 Theme “Embracing the Changes” – ALA News

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:

• SAGE Publications
• Wisers Information Limited
• Emerald Inc.

Banquet Sponsors:

• Bepress

Projects and Activities:
International Theme:

• CALA Joined IFLA
• 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 Innoviative 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 Innoviative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology: Outcome of the review process

Diversity Theme:

• Food, Fun and Fundraising for Diversity
  1. About: (click to read more)
  2. How to Donate:
     1. 1. Chapter presidents, vice presidents or their designees will be local coordinators. Once the funds are raised, the local coordinators will send in checks to CALA Treasurer, Songqian Lu, P.O. Box 271, Chatham, NJ 07928, with Food, Fun and Fundraising for Diversity note on them.
     2. 2. Individual donation by check: send checks to CALA Treasurer, Songqian Lu, P.O. Box 271, Chatham, NJ 07928, with Food, Fun and Fundraising for Diversity note on them, and email addresses of donors to receive acknowledgment letters.
  3. “Thank You” to the following donors for their generous support (as of 2/26/2012):
     1. 1. CALA Southern California Chapter
     2. 2. CALA Northeast Chapter Holiday Party Group: 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. Individual Donors: Lina Ding, Min Chou, Songqian Lu, Sha Li Zhang, Li Zhang
• CALA Emerging Leader Project to Promote Diverse Leadership
1. CALA Sponsors Li and Kyauk as 2012 Emerging Leraders - ALA News
2. Each year, CALA president 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: Charitoper Kyauk, Yuan Li, Candice Mack, and Laura Morlock. Please meet them in the photos. 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.

Technology Theme:

• A Breakthrough: First CALA Board Virtual Meeting Through Webinar
1. 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!

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

Photo Albums:

• CALA Board Meeting and Networking during the ALA Midwinter in Dallas
• 2012 ALA Emerging Leaders Program - CALA's Project 40/40 Team
• JCLC 2012 Fundraising Event during the ALA Midwinter in Dallas
• CALA 2011 Annual Program "Embracing the Changes: Diversity and Global Vision in a Digital Age"
• CALA NE Holiday Party Raised Fund for Diversity
• CALA Welcomes Chinese Delegation to the Global Conference on Children's Librarianship
• CALA Award Winning Poster at the ALA Diversity Fair 2011
• ALA Presidential Inauguration 2011 and IRRT Reception
• JCLC Fund Raising Reception 2011