CALA NEWSLETTER CALA Newsletter ISSN 0736-8887 Chinese American Librarians INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Association Newsletter Greetings 1-3 N O . 1 1 1 F A L L 2 0 1 4 Announcements 4-7 Appointments 8-9 Message from the CALA President Kachuen Gee Awards 8, 10 Dear CALA Members and learning experience to me. Conferences 11-15 Friends: With the guidance and help of and Seminars past CALA leaders, I slowly Visits 16 Greetings from your new learned more and more about President. I am honored to the history, organization and International 17-19 have this opportunity to offer management of this thriving Collaboration my best wishes to you and to organization. I am also fortu- Publications 20 report to you the achieve- nate that I work with a leader- ship team that is supportive In Memoriam 21-22 ments we accomplished in these few months since I took and constantly offers new Committee 23-32 office. ideas and suggestions to im- Reports prove CALA’s infrastructure Program entitled: “Exploring and to advance its continued As a newcomer who has not the World: Librarian Lead- Chapter Re- 33-37 progress. In short, together ers and Global Outreach”, had a very close association ports with able leadership and the held on June 29, during the with CALA and who was not collaboration of dedicated and 2014 ALA Annual Confer- Membership 38 very familiar with CALA’s Form past history and achieve- hardworking members, I am ence in Las Vegas. Three ments, the beginning of my proud to report that we have prominent library leaders: accomplished many important Donna Scheeder of IFLA, leadership has been quite CALA Newsletter (ISSN: achievements in these few Maureen Sullivan of ALA, challenging and difficult. 0736-8887) is the official months since July. Including: and Shu-hsien Tseng of Na- publication of the Chi- However, it was also a very A successful 2014 Annual tional (Continue to p.2) nese American Librarians stimulating and meaningful Association. The CALA Newsletter is published twice a year in CALA Programs at Midwinter 2015 Spring and Fall. URL: http://www.cala-web.org/ Dear CALA Colleagues, publications/newsletter. President: Carol Ka- We are pleased to announce CALA programs at Midwinter in Chicago January 30 – February 3, chuen Gee , ka- 2015 http://alamw15.ala.org/.CALA’s designate hotel is Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers [email protected]. where we will hold all our meetings. Please consider booking your stay there so you will have an edu. easy access to our meetings and gatherings. Vice President/President Elect: Lian Ruan, Date/Time: [email protected]. CALA Leadership Training Friday January 30, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Hollow Square Executive Director: Li CALA Board Meeting Saturday January 31, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Hollow Square Fu, [email protected]. CALA Committee Meeting Sunday February 1, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Hollow Square Newsletter Editorial CALA EC meeting Monday, February 2nd, 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Hollow Square Team: Priscilla Yu, Location: Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers [email protected]. 301 East North Water Street, Chicago, IL 60611-4300 Sai Deng, 312-464-1000 | 312-464-9 140 http://www.sheratonchicago.com/ (Continue to p. 4) [email protected]. P A G E 2 Message from the CALA President (Cont.) (Continued from p.1) Central ment. questions, comments, and Library of Taiwan, shared feedback. their knowledge and experi- Online Phone Meetings: ences of library leadership in Vice President Lian Ruan im- International Developments worldwide perspective en- plemented a conference call hanced by highly advanced system using a software called CALA member Shali Zhang, digital technology. Any Meeting. The Strategic Mion Zhou and Denise Kwan Plan Taskforce held its first represented CALA to attend A festival annual award ban- conference call meeting on the 2014 IFLA General Con- quet, also held on June 29, Nov. 7th. Most Taskforce ference, August 16-22, at was attended by about 60 members and invited guests Lyon, France. CALA has also guests and many honorary President Kachuen Gee and agreed to send representatives library leaders. Executive Director Fu Li to participate in IFLA’s 2016 joined this important meeting. Conference to be held in Co- In August, a new CALA 2020 lumbus, Ohio. Strategic Plan Task Force The participants discussed chaired by Vice President Lian their concerns for CALA and CALA has agreed to continue Ruan was formally estab- made suggestions for future to partner with the Yunnan lished. This new task force goals. The Task Force also Library Committee to hold will update CALA’s 2015 decided to hold town hall CALA 21st Century Librari- Strategic Plan and will guide phone meetings and to invite an Seminar Series. The first the Association’s policies and all CALA members to join. Seminar will be held at Bao activities in the next five The theme of these meetings Shan University, Yunnan years. will be on “what CALA can Province, in July 2015. Mi- do for you”. CALA Members chael Huang, chair of CALA’s In October, the are encouraged to participate International Relations Com- Executive Com- and share their thoughts, ideas, mittee, has already started to mittee (EC) set up and concerns with the Task discuss the planning of the a new leadership Force. The first meeting was conference with Bao Shan training series held on Nov, 18. Subsequent University Library. entitled “What meetings will continue until January. Face to face meetings Can CALA Do to CALA leaders participated in Help You?” to will also be scheduled during a significant musicology/ help new leaders 2015 ALA Mid-Winter. cultural event about Taiwan’s to learn more famous song writer Zhou Lan about the Associa- To regulate donation policies Ping. The program, entitled tion’s infrastruc- and procedures, EC has posted “Lan-Ping Zhou and the ture and to en- a formal donation policy, and Legend of ‘Green Island hance their leader- is planning to consult legal Serenade’” was held on Oc- ship skills. The advisors to review all CALA/ tober 11. It was organized by first part of the donor donation contracts and National Central Library of series will be held agreements. Taiwan, National Taiwan Uni- during 2015 ALA versity, and New York Queens Mid-Winter. Ten- In order to improve CALA Public Library at Flushing. tatively, EC has leadership’s performances and CALA president Kachuen selected 4 topics provide more benefits and Gee, ex-president Esther Lee to be included in services to members, EC insti- and ex- treasurer Maria Fung the series: Nonprofit Organi- tuted an online feedback sys- helped to set up the exhibit, zation; CALA as an Organiza- tem, the “member suggestions publicized the event, and in- tion; Leadership Essentials; box” on CALA WEB to en- vited many interested friends and Professional Develop- courage members to post to attend. (Continue to p. 3) CALA NEWSLETTER N O . 1 1 1 Greetings P A G E 3 Message from the CALA President (Cont.) (Continued from p. 2) Modern Chinese School and San Die- Let us all work together harmoniously Awards go Public /e3 Civic High School, as the as a team to achieve our goals! recipients of the 2015 grant. CALA members Duan Xiaoyu and Mi Thank you. Ximi were selected by ALA as mem- In summary, with so many new and bers of the 2015 Emerging Leaders exciting projects going on and so Respectfully submitted class. Congratulations, young leaders! many talented and hardworking mem- bers making outstanding achievements, Kachuen Gee CALA/ALA Family Literacy Focus CALA is moving with great promise to CALA 2014/15 President has selected two libraries, St. Louis a very bright and successful new year. CALA Programs at Midwinter 2015 (Continued from p. 1) Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers #7 on this map: http://alamw15.ala.org/files/alamw15/ALA_2015%20Hotel%20Map.pdf. HOTEL RATES 2015 Midwinter Meeting Hotels Hotel Rates Hotel Rates Hotel Rates Hotel Rates (Single) (Double) (Triple) (Quad) 7 - Sheraton Chicago Hotel and $125 $125 $145 $165 Towers - 301 E. North Water St. - CI, BC, F, P, RS Thank you all for your attention. Please let EC know if you have questions. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Kachuen Gee, CALA President Li Fu, CALA Executive Director Fund Raising News On CALA's behalf, President Kachuen Gee raised $1,250 from Ambassador Book Service, [email protected] one of the largest book distributors in the na- tion. This donation will be used to subsidize CALA's 2015 Annual Award Banquet and CALA's Leadership Training Series. Pictures source: http://carlaaston.com/ designed/25-extraordinary-christmas-tree- designs P A G E 4 IFLA Launches Toolkit to Support Library Institutions and Associations to Advocate for Access to Infor- Announcements mation in the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda As the United Nations reflects Acknowledge the public's what strategic and ambitious on the future of global devel- right to access information and goals will that phone call pur- opment and the post-2015 data, while respecting the right sue?” agenda, access to information to individual privacy; - Her Royal Highness Princess must be recognised as critical Laurentien of the Netherlands, to supporting governments to Recognise the important role speech at the IFLA World achieve development goals, of local authorities, infor- Library and Information Con- and enabling citizens to make mation intermediaries and gress in August 2014 informed decisions to improve infrastructure such as ICTs their own lives. IFLA, the and an open Internet as a Our objective is that on 1 Jan- International Federation of means of implementation. uary 2016, libraries will be Library Associations and In- ready to support implementa- stitutions, believes that librar- Adopt policy, standards and tion of the new development ies help guarantee that access.