CALA MW Chapter 2008 Annual Program:
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) | May 03 (Saturday)

• 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

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• 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 MN
  12:40 - 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