Chinese Canadian Library Weblog

Thank you, Jing, for organizing. Thank you, Jan, for
the room. Such an excellent idea to rent a room!

Our Chinese Canadian Librarians community is getting
bigger and stronger each year. As it is the norm with
other activities, you get out as much as you put in. I
encourage everyone to contribute to our community and
to share your knowledge and information using our
weblog.

For the party this Saturday, we like to make this
event a socializing, networking, and professional
development opportunity. If we follow Confucius’
teaching, “among three people together, (at least) one
will be my teacher,” imagine how many teachers you
would find among more than a dozen librarians and
several former teachers?

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For your 2-3 minutes self-introduction, please also
share with us your achievements, career or otherwise.
I will be the Timer and make sure everyone has an
opportunity to shine!

If you have any topics that you wish to be addressed,
please post to the blog or email me. I will take notes
and make sure we have a constructive discussion.

For the $40 room rental, I propose that we share the
cost among us. Bring your changes to me, most likely
$2-3 each, excluding spouse or children.

Food – For pot luck dinner, the usual norm is to bring
enough for you and your family, plus an extra portion
of food for one person. Bring your own drink and
cups/mugs as well. Please post what you would bring to
the blog so that we do not all bring the same thing. I
will bring a kettle to boil water for tea. I will
bring tea bags as well. If you have plug-in kettles,
please bring them as well.

Poker cards – For spouses and children, please bring
your own cards or games so they could have some fun at
another table while we have discussions.

All family members and friends are welcome – just
bring enough food/drink for them.

Clean-up – Jan paid an extra deposit to make sure the
room is clean after our gathering. Please help clean
up the room so Jan could get her deposit back.

For future gatherings, if you like such facility and
format, please let us know. If you have better ideas
or venues, share with us. Or better yet, organize the
next gathering. We are all in this community together.
Let’s make it remarkable for the benefit of each and
everyone of us!!

Thank you very much, Jing and Jan.