CALA Midwest Chapter Annual Conference
Outreach & Collaboration in the Age of Digital Transformation
Ideas and Experience from the Midwest
May 11-12, 2007, Chicago, Illinois

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Presentations

Listed in an alphbetic order by titles.

CALA International Programs in Promoting Collaboration and Outreach
Presenters: JIN, Xudong, Li, Guoqing and Li, Haipeng

Collaboration in Research and Authorship: The LIS Book Project
Presenters: DENG, Sai, CHU, Heting

Designing a Chinese Culture Course: Community Outreach in a Campus Environment
Presenter: LIU, Wen-ling

Developing a Digital Image Collection of Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths (IFLODD) through Outreach and Collaboration
Presenter: RUAN, Lian

Developing Digital Projects in a Non-Library Setting: Experience from the University of Iowa International Programs Culture Kit Digital Project
Presenter: CHIN, Si-chi

Library 2.0 in a Nutshell
Presenter: KWONG, Vincci

Marketing Access Services through Collaboration and Outreach
Presenter: FU, Li

Outreach to Industrial/Commercial World for Re-Shaping Library Image
Presenter: ZHAO, Lisa

Introduction

  • CALA International Programs in Promoting Collaboration and Outreach
    Presenters: JIN, Xudong, Li, Guoqing and Li, Haipeng

    The CALA 21st Century Librarians Seminar Series started in summer 2006, and proved to be extremely successful. Four CALA delegations with 16 CALA members will conduct similar seminars in four Chinese libraries this coming summer. Additional programs as such are expected in future years. Moreover, the collaboration among 11 CALA members is exemplified though an upcoming textbook, entitled "Academic Libraries in the United States for the 21st Century: Theories and Practices," to be published by the Beijing Library Press in June 2007.

    Outreach efforts for these projects are attracting vendors to work with CALA to further promote these programs. Responses to these efforts indicate the potential for further development of such endeavors on a larger scale. Efforts are also being made to reach other locales to launch similar collaborative projects. We believe these ventures will make a significant impact on CALA and advance the organization to new levels both domestically and internationally.

    Xudong Jin
    My MLS was from St. John's University in 1994. I have been Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Technical Services at OWU since 2000. My major responsibilities include participating in LIS management work and overseeing Technical Services operating including acquisitions, cataloging, serials, government documents, staffing, budget, collection development, and systems.

    As a CALA life member, I served as CALAMW Program Committee Chair in 2003/04, CALAMW President in 2004/05, CALA Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008, and CALA International Relations Committee Co-Chair in 2006/67. I attended many CALA annual programs since 1998 and all the CALAMW annual programs since 2002.

    I also served as Chair of ALA PromptCat Users Group Meeting in 2003/04, Long Term Advisor of Yunnan Library in China since 2005, and member of OhioLINK DMS Committee since 2003.

    Guoqing Li
    Graduated from Peking University (China) and Indiana University, have worked for Indiana University Library and University of Florida Library before came to work as the Head of Chinese and Korean Studies Collection for the OSU Libraries in 1996. Currently is a Professor, University Libraries and Adjunct Professor of the Dept. of East Asian Language & Culture, Center for East Asian Studies and Chinese Studies Institute of the Ohio State University.

    Bao Fa. Chinese translation of an English novel, Outbreak, by Robin Cook. (1998)
    Jin Zi Ta. Chinese translation of an English novel, The Pyramid, by William Golding. (2000)
    Feng Shen Yan Yi: A Corrected and Punctuated Edition with an Introduction. (2001)
    Lu Ye Xian Zong: A Corrected and Punctuated Edition with an Introduction. (2001)
    Jia Ru Ai Qing Shi You Xi, Zhe Jiu Shi Gui Ze. Chinese translation of If Love is a Game, These are the Rules. by Cherie Carter-Scott. (2002)
    Bao Hu Bing Han Wei. Chinese translation of an English novel, Protect and Defend, by Richard North Patterson. (2002)
    Mei Guo E-hai-e Zhou Li Da Xue Tu Shu Guan Zhong Wen Gu Ji Shu Lu--A Descriptive Catalogue of Chinese Classic Books in the Ohio State University Library. (2003)
    Wo de Beijing Huayuan. Chinese translation of Round about My Peking Garden by Mrs. Archibld Little, (2004)
    Xin Shi Ying Yuan Zhuan, A Corrected and Annotated Edition with an Introduction.(2005)
    Di guo li ying Chinese translation of China, its marvel and mystery

    And more than 10 chapters in edited books such as Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders, International Dictionary of Library Histories, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Information Resource Sharing, Textbook Series for 21st Century, Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers, and more than 50 articles in peer reviewed or editor reviewed journals, and some papers in proceedings.

    An editorial member of the Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal since 1996, editorial member of Zhongguo Yan Jiu (Chinese Studies) from 1997 to 1999 and a Co-Editor-in-chief of a book serial, Personal Experiences in China, since 2002.

    Member of American Library Association, Chinese American Librarians Association Association for Asian Studies, and Council on East Asian Libraries. Consultant for National Library of China, under the Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN)/Senior Technical Advisers Recruitment (STAR) project supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2001).

    Haipeng Li
    Haipeng Li has been Reference Librarian/Outreach Coordinator at the Oberlin College Library in Ohio since 1993. Prior to that, he was working at Reference Librarian at Arizona State University and University of Arizona. He received his BA in English from Northeast Normal University in China in 1984, MA from the same institution in 1987 in American Literature, a second MA from the University of Mississippi in Southern Studies 1991, and MLS from the University of Arizona in 1992.

    Haipeng was selected as one of the 25 participants nationwide for the Emerging Leader's Institute, sponsored by the President's Office of the American Library Association in 1997 and also selected as one of the 18 participants for the Leadership and Career Development Program by the Association of Research Libraries for the 1999 - 2000 class. He also served as Chair of the Human Diversity Committee of the Academic Library Association of Ohio in 2001 and as vice president and trustee on the Board of Trustees for the Oberlin Shansi Association, a private foundation based in Ohio to promote educational and cultural exchange between Asians and Americans, from 1995-2003. He has been invited to conduct numerous lectures and workshops on academic librarianship by Chinese academic libraries. He was the main coordinator of the an international conference on "Academic Librarianship in the New Millennium" held in Kunming, China, in June of 2001, and has been one of the main organizers of the CALA 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series that is going on currently. He also served as co-director of a library diversity intern program funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services at the Oberlin College Library from 2000-2003. He is currently serving as President of the Chinese American Library Association.

    Haipeng's professional interests include diversity, leadership, information literacy, and international librarianship.

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  • Collaboration in Research and Authorship: The LIS Book Project
    Presenters: Sai Deng, Heting Chu

    We present a collaboration model employed in a book project titled "Research Fronts in Library and Information Science (LIS) in the West". The book, to be publish by Renmin University in Beijing in 2007 as a volume in a series, is jointly written by 19 authors including PhD students, LIS faculty and university librarians. The presentation describes the different stages of collaboration in the project, including book planning, outline construction, bibliography selection, draft preparation, revision, peer review and editing. A survey will be administered to the participant authors, gathering data on their role in the collaboration, the frequency of their communication, the various forms of communication in different stages such as emailing list, blog, video conference, face-to-face interaction, email and phone calls, and their reflection on this collaborative project. Results of the survey and implications of this project for further collaborations in LIS research and authorship are to be discussed.

    Sai Deng
    A metadata Catalog Librarian at Wichita State University. Her work includes providing access to information resources using traditional and emerging metadata schema, managing objects in digital library systems and cataloging materials in a variety of formats. She had poster and paper presentations in ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Voyager EndUser Conference and Tri-Conference in Kansas. She is a co-author for Research Fronts in Library and Information Science (LIS) in the West to be published by Renmin University in Beijing.

    Heting Chu
    A professor in the Palmer School of Library & Information Science at Long Island University. Her teaching and research interests include the use of information technology in library and information science, especially in the areas of information representation and retrieval, Internet, research methods, and scientific communication. Dr. Chu is currently conducting research on digital libraries, information retrieval, and scientometrics. She published four monographs and more than 30 articles. More information about Dr. Chu can be found at http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/hchu/

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  • Designing a Chinese Culture Course: Community Outreach in a Campus Environment
    Presenter: LIU, Wen-ling

    Electronic and digital developments in the past twenty years have transformed the nature of library services and functions. More than ever, public-services librarians are engaged in a broad range of activities related to research, academic programs, outreach activities, and teaching support. Collaboration becomes a key element to ensure the success of these endeavors.

    I plan to relate my experiences of teaching a Chinese culture course to the Bloomington community as an example of the collaboration between academic departments, faculty members, library, and community.

    Liu, Wen-ling
    Has served as the Librarian for East Asian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington since 2001. Previously, I worked more than ten years in the Technical Services at the same library. A long-time CALA member, I have served as its Board of Directors (Member,1999-2002) and in various capacities in many CALA committees, such as Constitution & By-Laws Committee (Chair, 2003/2004), Scholarship Committee (Co-Chair, 2003/2004), Finance Committee (Member, 2004/2005), Public Relations & Fund-Raising Committee (Member, 2005/2006), and Mentorship Committee (Member, 2006/2007).

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  • Developing a Digital Image Collection of Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths (IFLODD) through Outreach and Collaboration
    Presenter: RUAN, Lian

    To reach out fire service user community and further its partnerships with fire departments, fire organizations, and public libraries throughout Illinois, the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, applied and received the FY 2007 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant award from the Illinois State Library. The project, "In Memory of Our Heroes: Developing a Digital Image Collection of Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths (IFLODD)," aims to collect, organize, digitize, preserve, and provide access to historical and cultural materials that document the ultimate sacrifice of more than 700 Illinois firefighters over the past 150 years. The presentation will demonstrate how the library partners with fire organizations, historical societies, fire museums, and libraries to digitize photographs, newspapers, fire station logbooks, and other resources that detail these tragedies for inclusion in an online database. Providing access to this history memorializes the firefighters, increase awareness of their sacrifice, and supply contemporary firefighters with valuable "lessons learned" from the various deaths to enhance the educational endeavors of firefighters and help prevent future tragedies. This project also helps build new relationships with historical societies and fire museums.

    Mrs. Lian Ruan
    Director/Head Librarian, Director of China Programs, of the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IFSI is the statutory State Fire Academy and its library provides no-cost information services to firefighters and emergency responders throughout the State. Ruan serves on several professional committees, such as the Illinois State Library's IILINET Network Advisory Council (INAC) (2003-2007), Scholarship Committee Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) (2004-2005), Board of Director Special Libraries Association Illinois Chapter (2002-2004), and inFIRE (an international fire library consortium) Committee (1996-2001). With numerous publications, her research interests cover use and user of information, outreach library services, special library administration and international librarianship. She has received a series of grant awards from various state and national agencies. She is an adjunct faculty and doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the winner of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Diversity Leadership Development Program award and the University of Illinois Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence award in 2003.

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  • Developing Digital Projects in a Non-Library Setting: Experience from the University of Iowa International Programs Culture Kit Digital Project
    Presenter: Si-chi Chin

    The University of Iowa International Programs Culture Kit Digital Project is a vivid example of initiating a digital project in a non-library setting. By the term "non-library setting" we mean an environment without library applications (such as cataloging software) or staff with adequate library science training. The International Programs and Digital Library Services have fostered an effective collaboration in this initiative. We maximize the use of existing applications (e.g. Excel) and limited manpower (two undergraduate students devoting approximately 4 hours a week each on the project.) Since the end of February, we have digitized and uploaded more than 180 items. Such a successful experience would be a work-flow model for small-scale digital projects.

    Si-Chi Chin
    A graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science. She received her bachelor degree in Law and Political Science in 2001 and master degree in Sociology in 2004 from the National Taiwan University. Currently, Si-Chi Chin works as a graduate assistant in the University of Iowa International Programs and as a graduate research assistant in Biomedical Informatics in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. She worked as a student assistant in the University Library East Asian Language Cataloging Unit from Fall 2005 and in Digital library Services from Spring 2006.

    Si-Chi Chin was the winner of Best Research Poster Award at the 29th Annual Research Symposium at the University of Tennessee, held in February 16, 2007. In March 2007, She also received the Outstanding Student Leadership Awards from the University of Iowa International Programs. Si-Chi Chin has extensive experience working with metadata and the CONTENTdm application. She was involved in six digital projects and administered two digital project initiatives. Her research interests focus on information retrieval, text manipulation and knowledge management.

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  • Library 2.0 in a Nutshell
    Presenter: KWONG, Vincci

    Since Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle brought up the Web 2.0 concept, there is a lot of discussion within the library community between Web 2.0 and the library. Many librarians then investigated and applied the Web 2.0 concept to services provided by library, which gave birth to Library 2.0. But what is Library 2.0? Why it is important for us? Is Library 2.0 only for teckies? In addition to address these questions, this presentation will also discuss how to utilize several low-cost and easy-to-implement Library 2.0 applications to promote library services.

    Vincci Kwong
    Graduated and got her MLS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2005, and started her first professional position as the Head of Web Services at Schurz Library, Indiana University South Bend in August 2005. Schurz Library is a medium-sized college library with 11 full-time librarians. Her primary job responsibility includes reference service, library instruction and web development. Currently, Kwong is a member of several professional organizations, including ALA, Indiana Library Federation and the Chinese American Librarians Association.

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  • Marketing Access Services through Collaboration and Outreach
    Presenter: FU, Li

    This presentation discusses how the Chicago State Library Access Services works in partnership with the campus IT, media services, distance education, and public relations to promote the electronic reserves, blackboard & library resources integration, interlibrary loans, and other digital/electronic services to the CSU community. Discusses how in-depth open houses, open hours, one-on-one consultation, special workshops, and department-visiting for strategically selected faculty can effectively increase the library's visibility as well as publicize the library services. Describes how, as a comprehensive faculty outreach effort, it takes every opportunity making the library resources more accessible by creating a single logon to the library resources, through blackboard, reserving/requesting online, and linking to the faculty's pages.

    Li Fu
    Access Services Librarian at Chicago State University. Prior to that, she worked as an Electronic Services Librarian at University of IL at Chicago. As immediate past President (2005/06) of CALAMW Chapter, she's been an active advocate for such collaborative and outreach programs as CALAMW and Apple Tree project, Dalian project, and Yunnan project. Li Fu now works on her doctoral study of Organizational Leadership with a concentration on Information/organization. She's a life member of CALA.

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  • Outreach to Industrial/Commercial World for Re-shaping library image
    Presenter: ZHAO, Lisa

    Out reach, usually means libraries make effort and project for its users and communities. In my presentation, I would illustrate my view of the outreach from another way: outreach to industrial or commercial world and see what is going on over there and find way for refreshing ourselves, preparing next generation of librarians and serving next generation of users. I will go over very briefly about what is happened outside of the library world and some libraries in order to encourage us to reach higher, be more innovative.

    Lisa Zhao
    Assistant Catalog Librarian, Daley Library Univ. of Ill. at Chicago. 1988: MA from UIC, 1997: MLS from UIUC, Have been working at the UIC library for 16 years. CALA member.

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