Chinese Canadian Library Weblog

The campus is so quiet on this rainy Monday, as if I could hear the petals falling off the magnolia trees by IKBLC. Solving a mystery of a series with messy bib records as soon as I walked into the library, turned out it’s a call-back set from Surrey storage. This reminds me several recent [...]

Prof. Brook can’t wait to read the newly arrived 嘉興文獻叢書, especially the Diary by Feng Mengzhen (1548-1595)–《快雪堂日記》. I remember his presentation at the last BC China Scholars’ Forum. Tim was desperately looking for living cost in Ming Dynasty and expenditures on collectables, etc. I finally found them in Feng’s diary. This poor scholar 500 years [...]

Cheng Huanwen said in his Blog: 北京奥运会开幕式不过是上了一堂空前绝后的中国图书史教学课！Darn! Missed that part. Hope to get a DVD soon, for myself and UBC students.

It is hard to let the print go after decades of collection development, but what if they are not being used? Cal Poly Library’s Dean, Mr. Schleifer says, “If you look at our user population, in many ways they are far ahead of us in terms of what they like to use and how they [...]

Just finished reading “Career Choices and Advancement: Chinese American Librarians in the 21st Century”, a study published in the latest issue of “Internet Chinese Librarians”, and I’d highly recommend this article to all of you who are interested in Chinese American/Canadian Librarianship. A well-done research article with significant contribution to the minority librarianship literature as [...]

An article published early this year in Degree Tutor lists many reasons of our existence. What about 10 years from now?

I enjoy reading this quality open access journal targeted at library school students. Beautifully done and good content. There should be more journals open accessed next year.

‘Chinglish’ website targets Asians lost in mistranslation by Clifford Coonan in Beijing CHINA: Rich parents in the United States are desperately seeking Chinese nannies to tutor their charges in Mandarin, the language of the future for westerners keen to make inroads in China. Meanwhile, in China, 300 million people are learning English, the language of [...]

I found this book by coincidence when I returned China Dawn. Rachel DeWoskin, a Columbia graduate spent a great part of the 1990s in Beijing, when I left the country for the US. We both experienced cultural shock in each other’s countries in the mid-1990s. Her book gives me the sensational description of Chinese urban [...]

Food for thought and an eye-catching post on Free Ranger Librarian. Some quotes: “The user is not broken. Your system is broken until proven otherwise.” “Your website is your ambassador to tomorrow’s taxpayers. They will meet the website long before they see your building, your physical resources, or your people.” Not just young students, 4 [...]