CALA MW Chapter 2008 Annual Program:
May 02 (Friday) | May 03 (Saturday)
Digital Library, Networking, and Professional Development
Argosy University Chicago
located at Chicago Mart Plaza, Room 1283
350 W Mart Center Drive Chicago, IL 60654
May 02-03, 2008
- May 02 (Friday)2pm-9pm
- Visit Chicago Harold Washington Public Library, 1pm-2pm
Meet at west gate of the Library inside the gate: 400 S. Plymouth Court
Chicago, IL 60605
Tel.:(312) 747-4300- Visit Chicago Art Museum, 2pm-4pm
(Free admission. Jack Brown, the Director of the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago will give a brief introduction of the library at 2pm.)
Address: 111 S Michigan Ave #1 Chicago, IL 60603)
Tel.:(312) 443-3600- Evening, Chapter dinner, 5:30pm-9pm, at "Lao Beijing" restaurant in Chicago Chinatown, Lao Beijing
2138 S Archer Ave.
Chicago IL 60616-1514
312-881-0168 see Menu
- May 03 (Saturday) 9am-4pm
The Program will be held in
Argosy University Chicago located at Chicago Mart Plaza, Room 1283:
350 W Mart Center Drive
Chicago, IL 60654
Tel.:(312) 836-5000
8:30am - 9:00am Registration/sign in and breakfast 9:00am - 10:10am * Welcome, Qi Chen, Vice-President/President Elect, CALA-MW
* Opening speech - Shuyong Jiang, president, CALA-MW
* Key note speech - Michael Dowling (ALA International Relation Office)10:15am - CALA Twenty-first Century Librarian Seminar Series, updates, by Haipeng Li 10:30am - Presentation: Career choices and career advancement: Chinese American Librarians in the 21st Century, by Lian Ruan (UIUC) and Jian Anna Xiong (SIU) 11:00am - Break 11:10am - Presentation: Exploring the needs and resources for professional development, by Junlin Pan, (NIU) 11:40am - Presentation: Subject requirement for effective bibliographical services, by Tze-Chung Li, Dominican University, River Forest, IL 12:10am - Presentation: Global geospatial data at finger tips: managing a digital cartographic collection, by Xiaohong Zhang, St Mary’s Univ MN12:40 - 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm - Presentation: The fun part of librarianship --- professional development, Ning Zou, East Kentucky Univ. (EKU) 2:30pm - Presentation: Metadata Standards and practice in “Amos Kennedy collection, by Tianxin Guo and Lixia Zhao (UIUC) 3:00pm - 3:10pm Break 3:10pm - Questions, Discussion, Updates, Announcement, and Social 4:30pm Program adjourns