Dear CALA/NE Chapter members,

CALA/NE Chapter 2014 election was held from June 2 to 11, 2014. It is my great pleasure to announce the election result:

• Vice President/President Elect (2014-2015): Jia Mi

• Secretary (2014-2015): Clara Tran

• Membership Chair (2014-2015): Yongming Wang

Mr. Hung-Yun Chang will continue to serve as Treasurer for the 3-year term (2012-2015).

Please join me in congratulating our new chapter officers!

As President of CALA/NE Chapter, I’d like to thank Ms. Minglu Wang for her leadership and dedicated service to our chapter during the past year, and I look forward to working with the newly elected officers and all our members in the coming year of 2014-2015.

Sincerely,

Michael Bailou Huang

President, CALA/NE Chapter (2014-2015)

On June 12th, 2014, with the Institute of Asian Studies at St. John's University, CALA/NE Chapter cosponsored a Chinese Lecture by Professor Xichen Lu on the topic of “The Wisdom to Preserve Psychological Health from the Daodejing”. The event was held at the Faculty Lounge in Sun Yat Sen Hall of St. John's University. CALA/NE Chapter senior member, Tianxiao Zhang, coordinated the event and CALA/NE Chapter President, Minglu Wang, attended the lecture and introduced Professor Xichen Lu. Several Chinese faculty members and administrators and some other Chinese friends around the area attended the lecture. Audience was inspired by Professor Lu’s presentation on the heritage of Daoism and its modern application on psychotherapy, and had a great discussion afterwards. Upon Dr. Lu's agreement, her lecture is recorded and please see the recordings below:

On March 29th, 2014, at Chatham Square Library, we invited Nina Dai Tang, President of Oversea Window Author's Association, to give a lecture and have a forum discussion with our Chapter members and the public library users.

Ms. Tang talked about her personal experience as a writer and her own understanding/practice of internet literature. She is the founder of the Oversea Window Author's Association, with a group of active writers publishing all types of literature on its website, electronic magazine, and also in traditional book format. She has also been organizing community parents/children engagement events and Chinese educational charity.

The event was well attended. Both CALA NE Chapter members and the library users were very interested in Ms. Tang and her writings. Ms. Tang signed some books for NYPL and public users. Possible future library events with Oversea Window Author's Association were under discussion.

Thanks Ms. Wu and Ms. Opinante from Chatham Square Library and Mr. Chang, our Chapter Treasurer, for their great effort to coordinate the event location and room settings.

After the event, Ms. Tang has written a blog article and posted her lecture slides on Oversea Window's Website, where the author's association's members had a further discussion around the lecture topics.

Director General, Dr. Shu-hsien Tseng of the National Central Library (NCL) in Taiwan, together with the Director of the Special Collection Division, Dr. Yu Hsiao-ming, and Chief Keng Li-chung,  came to visit Rutgers, for the event of Taiwan lecture on Chinese studies and the opening of a related exhibition on Oct. 18. Our CALA/NE Chapter members attended the lecture and exhibit and had a dinner meeting with Dr. Tseng and her two colleagues after the even. We learned many aspects of NCL's resources and programs

Tang (Tony) Cheng from Shanghai Normal University Library and other speakers from the US addressed the educational requirements for librarians in China and US, and discussed their own education both prior to and after beginning their professional careers.  International studies have given several of the speakers a cross-cultural perspective.A group of CALA/NE Chapter members, Michael Huang, Charlene Chou and Minglu Wang presented at the LACUNY International Relations Roundtable on June 20th, 2013, in Bernard Baruch College Newman Library. Other CALA/NE Chapter members, Esther Lee, Ka Chuen Gee, Songqian Lu, Judy Xiao and Lina Ding also attended and joined the conversation about education Chinese for librarianship.

Tang (Tony) Cheng from Shanghai Normal University Library and other speakers from the US addressed the educational requirements for librarians in China and US, and discussed their own education both prior to and after beginning their professional careers.  International studies have given several of the speakers a cross-cultural perspective.

Through the invitation of the National Central Library in Taiwan and Sally Tseng’s coordination, three CALA members, Sally Tseng, Charlene Chou and Wen-ying Lu, taught a RDA Workshop at the National Central Library from May 21st  to May 23rd, 2013.  There are more than 140 librarians attended this workshop and had a great discussion on this new international cataloging standard.  The CALA President Esther Lee, Vice-president Carol Gee and former CALA/NE Chapter Chair, Janey Chao also attended the workshop.  Esther and Sally presented the CALA’s commemorative plaque to congratulate the 80th anniversary of NCL in the opening session of this workshop.  In addition to the workshop, Dr. Tseng Shu-hsien, Director General, National Central Library and President, Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan), organized a seminar on May 22nd evening for both the CALA and Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) members to discuss for further collaboration in future.

The presentations were extraordinary and infused with new ideas on 21st Century academic library services and management, and ignited an enthusiastic scholarly exchange of ideas and discussions.  Additionally, Tao Yang provided a library tour at Rutgers on the day of the seminar while other CALA Northeast members led the library visits for the delegates on the following days:

August 4:

Morning (9 - 12): Visited Princeton University Libraries (hosted by Yuan Li)

Afternoon (2 - 4): Visited the College of New Jersey Library (hosted by Yongming Wang)

August 7:

Morning (9 - 12): Visited Columbia University Libraries (hosted by Chubing Hong)

Afternoon (2 - 4): Visited the New York Public Library (accompanied by Rong Wang and hosted by Hung-Yun Chang)

August 9:

Morning (9 - 11): Visited the Library of Congress (hosted by Yuan Yao)

The delegates then completed their visit in Los Angeles, California and flew back to Yunnan, China after twelve days of visiting the U.S.A.

It is an honor to host the Yunnan Library Directors in the Northeast region.  I give my heartfelt thanks to the CALA Executive Director, CALA Executive Committee, Le Yang, Yongming Wang, the Planning Committee, the presenters, and CALA Northeast members for their strong support of the program.  I especially thank CALA Northeast Immediate Past President, Yongming Wang for his excellent work in planning and coordinating this event.  Special thanks to Tao Yang and Li Sun for providing Rutgers facilities and technology support for this event.  And last but not the least, my sincere thanks to everyone who made this Yunnan Library Directors’ visit a remarkable success!

Undoubtedly, the Yunnan Library Directors’ visit will lead to greater collaboration between the Yunnan Library Committee and CALA.

Sincerely,

Clara Tran

CALA NE Chapter President (2017-2018)

Planning Committee Members

Yongmig Wang, NE Chapter Immediate Past President

Clara Tran, NE Chapter President

Hong Yao, NE Chapter Vice President/President Elect

Hung-Yun Chang, NE Chapter Treasurer

Michael Huang, NE Chapter Member

Tao Yang, NE Chapter Member

Yuan Li, NE Chapter Member

Dear CALA/NE Chapter Members:

CALA/NE Chapter 2013 election was held from June 20 to 30, 2013. I am very pleased to announce the election result as follows:

• Total active members: 91

• Total voting ballots sent out: 87

• Total voting ballots received: 52 

• Total voting rate: 60%

The Voting Result is:

• Michael Huang (Vice President/President Elect (2013-2014): 42

• Joanna Fu (Secretary 2013-2014): 44

• Mi Jia (Membership Chair 2013-2014): 41

All candidates received more than half of the votes from valid voting ballots. Please join me in congratulating our new chapter officers! 

Mr. Hung-Yun Chang will continue to serve as our chapter’s Treasurer for the 3-year term of 2012-2015.

As CALA/NE Chapter’s current President, I thank Ms. Charlene Chou for her dedicated services to our chapter during last year, and I am looking forward to work with the new elected officers and all our chapter members in this coming year of 2013-2014.

Regards,

Minglu Wang

CALA/NE Chapter President 2013-2014