2025 Recipients of CALA Grant Awards

Grants:

Sally C. Tseng’s Professional Development Grant

Jinxuan Ma. Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Management, Emporia State University.

A longitudinal analysis of how reading habits influence the health outcomes of older adult readers

***$1,000 will be issued for this grant.

Sheila Suen Lai Research Grant

Jia Mi. Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian, R. Barbara Gitenstein Library, The College of New Jersey.

Language Representation and Bias in Large Language Models: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English for Equitable AI in Libraries

***$1,000 will be issued for this grant.