Chinese Canadian Library Weblog

VICTORIA – British Columbians will have better access to more information thanks to a new virtual reference library service called AskAway, Education Minister Shirley Bond and Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell announced today during the Libraries in Dialogue with Government conference. Read the entire article here.

London, Ontario October 10-12, 2007 Theme: The Library in Its Socio-Cultural Context: Issues for Research and Practice Abstracts of 600-800 words, including references, are due by February 1, 2007 to the Conference Chair, Dr. Gloria Leckie (address noted below). It is a longstanding truism that for too long, too much library research has been focused […]

Jian has happily started his co-op with North Van. Ying was offered a part-time position at VANOC after her summer co-op. Heather has become a Systems Librarian at McGill U. Ian is the Digitization Librarian now at SFU and a Burnaby resident. He is attending a conference in Beijing next month. Beibei is the Acting […]

WorldCat.org provides a permanent destination page and search box that lets a broader range of people discover the riches of library-held materials cataloged in the WorldCat database. More details…

已跌破50％。 近年来我国国民网上阅读率正在迅速增长，上网阅读率从1999年的3.7%增加到2005年的27.8%，年平均增长率为107%。如果能促进人们网上阅读，也是解决阅读率下降的良方。

A message from Diantha Dow Schull (President of Americans for Libraries Council) What do Americans think of libraries in the age of the Internet? We thought we’d ask, so we engaged Public Agenda to conduct a major national public opinion study. We are delighted to share the final report with you today. For a copy […]

Info*Nation (pre-launched) is a participatory website that promotes library and information professions in Canada. It is targeted at today’s youth and other people seeking exciting career opportunities. It will speak their language and grab their attention.

“The Researching Librarian” website might be of interest to librarians who would like to perform research. Helpful web resources can be found there.

We just agreed to stay low-profiled at our first meeting two weeks ago. Now we are on Google, and cited by some library blogs in China.

叶茂当选为学生校董是康奈尔109年中国留学生史上又一重大突破。 I met Mao at the Asian Library when he came to request statistical data from China. I was impressed by his extensive research and suggestions of improving the library collection. He was just one of many graduate student users, but his passion and smile were unforgetable. I was so happy and proud to hear […]