Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the CALA, NE Chapter Board, I would like to invite you join our art museum tour on December 7th afternoon.  We'll visit the Frick Museum Library for its fascinating digital collections and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its rich East Asian art collections.  Below is the detailed information:

1. Meeting at 1:15pm at the Frick Library Entrance, 10 East 71st Street, New York

2. Greeting by Stephen Bury, Chief Librarian and tour of the Digital Lab and collections

3. Going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 2:15pm

4. Tour of the East Asian art collections by Min Xu, Associate Museum Librarian

5. Refreshment time at the Met Cafe at 3:45pm

Please RSVP with Charlene Chou at cc179@columbia.edu by Dec. 4th at 5pm, so we can inform both libraries for the number of attendees.  We look forward to seeing you on December 7th!

Charlene Chou

CALA, NE Chapter, chair, 2012-2013

Columbia University

New York, NY

Event pictures taken on December 7th, 2012

On July 19th, 2012, three delegation members of Mr. Yu, Head of the Public Culture Department from China, and five CALA/NE members had a successful one hour seminar at the 6th floor conference room of NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library, after the delegates toured the NYPL Research Library. During the seminar, Mr. Yu’s delegates inquired about the role of American Library Association in librarians’ professional development and different libraries’ administration and operation mechanism in the US. CALA/NE members shared about their personal experiences as ALA and CALA members, and their knowledge about the profession in both public and academic libraries. In the end, Mr. Yu’s delegates welcomed CALA members to contribute to China’s library journals on similar topics to continue the conversation in the future. All attendants enjoyed learning new facts about the library systems from two different cultures. Thanks to Hung-Yun Chang and Esther Lee for the quick organization and arrangement of this meaningful event.

In the picture from left to right: Hung-Yun Chang from Mid-Manhattan Library; Lina Ding from Brooklyn Public Library; Ka Chun Gee from Lehman College Library, CUNY; Esther Lee from Queens Public Library; Minglu Wang from Dana Library, Rutgers-Newark; Wang, Xiaowen  from Liaoning Province Library; Bao, Shenghua  from Jilin Province Library; Tang, Lin from Public Culture Department of China.

Dear Members:

CALA/NE Chapter 2012 election was held from June 8 to 17, 2012. Based on the info sent

from CALA webmaster, I am very pleased to announce the election result as follows:

• Total active members: 83

• Total voting ballots sent out: 83

• Total voting ballots received: 46 (online & mail)

• Total voting rate: 55%

The Voting Result is:

• Minglu Wang (Vice President/President Elect (2012-2013): 40

• Joanna Fu (Secretary 2012-2013): 41

• Michael Bailou Huang (Membership Chair 2012-2013): 42

• Hung-Yun Chang (Treasurer 2012-2015): 42

All candidates received more than half of the votes from valid voting ballots. Please join me in congratulating our new chapter officers!  Ms. Charlene Chou will be our President to work with the newly elected officers for 2012-2013.

It has been my great pleasure serving as the chapter President for the term of 2011-2012. I have received strong support and a lot of help from our Chapter Board and our members. Thank you for the wonderful opportunity of working with you all, and for your continued support for our chapter and our new chapter officers.

Best regards.

Judy Xiao

The CALA/NE Chapter is excited to report that about 20 librarians from CALA and other institutions participated in our spring program to visit Princeton University Libraries. The group visited the East Asian Library, the Lewis Science Library, and the Firestone Library.  Some also took advantage of the free campus tour. Many thanks to Charlene and our colleagues from Princeton Universities Libraries for making this such a successful event.