Since 1973, The Chinese American Librarians Association (華人圖書館員協會) is a leading organization supporting diversity and equity in the library profession.
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Join us for the 2026 CALA Award-Winning Book Talk: Our Past, Our Present: Chinese American & Canadian Stories
📅 Oct. 6, 2026
🕞 3:30–5:00 p.m. EDT
See the flyer for details. We hope to see you there!
📚 The CALA Best Book Award Subcommittee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 CALA Best Book Awards!
Congratulations to this year's outstanding award winners! 🎉
See the full list of recipients: cala-web.org/awards/bestbook…
We are researching the experiences of minority groups in leadership roles. If you belong to a minority group (by race, religion, or other factors) in your area, please share your perspective in our brief survey. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
📚 CALA 2026 Best Book Award: Nomination Deadline Extended!
We are looking for outstanding works related to Chinese culture or the Chinese American experience. 🌟
New Deadline: April 30, 2026 ☕️
Postmark Deadline: April 30, 2026
🔗 Nominate here: cala-web.org/event-6562879
📚 Call for Nominations: CALA Best Book Award 2026!
Know an outstanding 2025 book by a writer of Chinese descent published in North America?
Nominate it by March 15, 2026!
🔗 Form: tinyurl.com/mryzdry2
#CALABookAward #ChineseLiterature #LiteraryAwards
📚 Join us for a CALA Award-Winning Book Talk: Imagination Across Ages: Fiction & Folklore! Authors Maple Lam, Guoping Ren & John Shen Yen Nee share insights & answer questions.
Nov 6, 11AM EST
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Meeting ID: 297 614 291 725 0
Passcode: aZ3Tp7NL
CALA Mentorship 2025-26
LIS students & early-career Chinese/Chinese American/Canadian librarians: Apply to be a mentee or mentor! 🌟
🗓 Apply by Oct 19
📅 Program: Oct 27 – May 31
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Join us at the 2025 CALA Annual Conference in Philly!
Sun, June 29 | 1–3 PM EDT, PCC Room 118
Explore Strengthening Libraries' Relevance in a Changing World, celebrate scholarship, and connect with the CALA community!
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📚✨ Missed our first CALA Award-Winning Book Talk? Watch Exploring the Chinese American Experience featuring Traci Huahn, Michelle Jing Chan, Karen Fang, and a special greeting from Connie Chung! 🎥 Available till Aug 24: youtu.be/oEbQ3wVa0Tg #CALA #AAPI #BookTalk
📚 Join us for the 2025 CALA Best Book Talk!
🎉 Celebrate award-winning works on the Chinese American experience with Traci Huahn, Michelle Jing Chan & Karen Fang.
🗓️ June 24 | 2–3 PM EDT | Zoom
🔗 Register: ucf.zoom.us/j/99278090136
ℹ️ Learn more: cala-web.org/awards/bestbook…
📚🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 CALA Best Book Award winners!
Each year, CALA honors exceptional books that celebrate Chinese Americans, people of Chinese origin, Chinese cultural heritage, and voices.
🔗 cala-web.org/awards/bestbook…
📢 Deadline Extension! 📚 The 2025 CALA Best Book Award nominations are now due by April 1, 2025, with the postmark deadline extended to April 15, 2025. Submit your nominations soon! More details: 🔗 cala-web.org/news/13429175 #CALABestBookAward #CallForNominations
The CALA Best Book Award Committee is still accepting nominations!
Know an outstanding book? Nominate works by yourself, your colleagues, or authors you admire. Don’t miss the chance to honor excellence in literature!
cala-web.org/news/13429175
Thank you & Happy Chinese New Year!
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It’s Banned Books Week, when libraries, schools, bookstores, groups, and individuals around the world—including Banned Books Week Honorary Chair filmmaker Ava DuVernay—call attention to censorship and ways to fight it. Here's how you can get involved. bit.ly/4djr9H1
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IFLA selects #Astana, #Kazakhstan to host the 2025 World Library and Information Congress.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
#WLIC2025
Read IFLA's press release: bit.ly/4c9mIOn
ALT Aerial image of Astana announcing the WLIC 2025 will take place there between 18-22 August 2025
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Join the JCLC Board as we announce the location for the JCLC 2026 Conference at #ALAAC24!
From our first conference in 2006 to our 5th gathering twenty years later, it’s been an incredible journey.
Come celebrate, connect with colleagues, and share in the excitement! 📍✨🌟
The CALA Best Book Award subcommittee is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2024 CALA Best Book Awards: cala-web.org/awards/bestbook… Congratulations to the award winner and honor books! 🏆📚
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Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee: The 'father of Ohio libraries' 10tv.com/article/news/local/…
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Many thanks @AngelaAn10TV @10TV for featuring my dear uncle Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee for AANHPI Heritage Month. He was a giant in library science @AldenLibrary @librarycongress @ALALibrary @CalaNational ! He passed away in December, and we all miss him so much
Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee: The 'father of Ohio libraries' 10tv.com/article/news/local/…