Not just on the language but also history and culture of the Cantonese-speaking region. Prof. King was interviewed about the program by the CBC Radio.
Category: Awards, Grants & Scholarships
Never looked back until the LDO pushed me a few times. Vivienne followed up over the phone and asked for some rough numbers and dates. Then I am suprised by how many friends I have made globally and how much I have learnt from those activities. If the Collaborative Virtual Reference is considered as the fun start, then winning the BC Scholars to China and TLEF Fund has gained me financial support to reach out and wide. When I tried to slow down now, more and more invitations are rushing in. Our library users benefit the most and above all, I enjoyed all those long jurneys. 读完卷书不如行万里路,行万里路不如阅人无数，阅人无数不如名师指路，名师指路不如自己去悟. Glad I have experienced all these, and now just follow my own heart and select those work I like the best.
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 reference requests, the Three-year Plan and a new in-depth research season.
Just confirmed with Katherine on new Forestry students’ orientation in July, still owe Bronwen the DigitalProjectApproval forms this week, and would love to develop my online course when Caroline is here to help.
Dr. Cheng, Prof. Gu and Patrick are still waiting for my part. More urgent research tasks are our book charpter for SCSL and the PPT for WCILCOS conferecne, although I don’t understand why we need to submit the PPT, since our whole papers are already on files. With this much workload, not sure if I can get away for Shangri La and Guilin this summer, although I miss the harmonious beauty in these two places.
Although thinking globally almost every day through out the last two years, I’ve only worked locally. As a bunch of new programs calling my name, I really like to take a part in them–presenting at Area Studies International Conference at Xiamen U. , attending the workshop in Taiwan by the NCL. Now this TGAG project picked me and makes the trip tightly scheduled together with generous funding outside of UBC. I could sense the trouble and extra work of the TGAG by choosing a Canadian. Can’t wait to meet and get to know them in Chicago.
Received many congrats from colleagues since the TGAG news was exposed in the HR Bulletin. Glad to know that I might hang out with several UBC folks in Asia if my schedule allows. Besides revisiting the potential projects with Peking U and NLC, I’d love to meet the librarians at the Xiamen Children’s Library. We stayed in touch for so many years, but never met in person. The annual reports, thank you letters and drawings from the little readers always light up my holiday seasons. Love to volunteer in person during this trip even just for a few hours . Better to conact the Foundation now.
Good for Karen and Shuyong at U of IL. at Urbana-Champaign for getting this grant. CALA is calling for applicants to present in China. The two-year “Think Globally, Act Globally” partnership project will facilitate collaboration, exchange of information, professional development of librarians from U.S. and China, and developing a web portal for resources in support of China/East Asian Studies in the U.S.
With the connections and human capital, we should be able to work out something like this, not individually like in the past years, but organized and funded by the two countries.
The Sacramento Public Library is delighted to announce the program funded by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) through the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) under the “Librarians for America’s ighborhoods” project. The Sacramento Public Library (SPL) will select three students, enrolled in an ALA accredited MLIS rogram, who will be graduating on or before the summer of 2008.
Application information can be found on our website www.sac.library.org
International Opportunities Fund is a new category in SSHRC