Chinese American Librarians Association Midwest Chapter Annual Program
Chicago Circle Center (CCC) University of Illinois at Chicago 750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607

7:00 - 10: 00 p.m.: Registration and Social

7:30 - 8:30 p.m.: Meeting for Committees and State Contacts

8:30 - 10:00 p.m.: Social

Saturday, June 1, 2002 (location: room 501 CCC)

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.: Registration

9:30 - 9:40 a.m.: Opening remarks: CALAMW Chapter President: Lisa Zhao

9:40 - 10:40 a.m.: Keynote address (including Q&A):

Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries
"Repositioning Libraries for the Future: From Information Management to Knowledge Management."

10:50 - 12:00: Panel Presentations: Challenges and Opportunities

Sandra Balderrama, ALA Diversity Officer
"Diversity in Leadership"

Haipeng Li, Reference Librarian, Oberlin College
"Building the Bridge and Strengthening the Ties"

Junlin Pan, Reference Librarian, Northern Illinois University
"Promoting the Accessibility of Library Resources to the Chinese Community"

Bing Yu, Metadata Manager, Language Sets, OCLC
"Minority Managers: Challenges for Ourselves and for the Profession"

12:00 - 1:30 pm: Lunch; Introduction of members and other business

1:30 - 2:30 pm: Interest group/round table discussions

CJK/OCLC, Discussion leader: Shuh-Jiuan Chen

International Exchange/Global Collaboration, Discussion leader: Shu Yong Jiang

CORC, Discussion leader: Xudong Jin

E-skills @ Library, Discussion leader: Li Fu

2:30 - 2:40 pm: Break

2:40 - 3:30 pm: Summary Session

3:30 - 4:00 pm: Evaluation & closing session.