Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian organized and presented an academic session titled “The Library’s Role in Social Advancement: Current Trends in Academic and Public Libraries in the United States” at 2015 Chinese Library Annual Conference held in Guangzhou, China, December 15-17, 2015. The session was one of the most popular events and attracted over 300 attendees.
The academic session is listed as follows:
Academic Session Title: The Library’s Role in Social Advancement: Current Trends in Academic and Public Libraries in the United States
Organizer/Chair: Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives; Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University
Keynote Speakers:
New trends of academic libraries in USA
Lian Ruan, Head Librarian, Illinois Fire Service Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; CALA President 2015-2016
Academic library management and the role of leadership
Haipeng Li, University Librarian, University of California, Merced; CALA President 2005-2006; CALA Executive Director 2007-2013
Presenters:
The evolving role of academic health sciences libraries and librarians
Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives; Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University
New and innovative services in public libraries
Angela Yang, CALA President, 2002-2003; Manager of Fremont Libraries in California; Outreach and Multicultural Services Librarian, University of California at Irvine, 1991-2002
Information literacy education in distance learning
Andree Y. Lee, Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian, George Mason University Libraries
Expanding the role of public libraries: Agents of change in connected learning environments
Liya Deng, PhD Candidate, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
From advanced placement to parallel enrollment: The roles of school media specialists and the community college librarians
Dr. Raymond Wang, Associate Professor; Coordinator, Library Instruction Program, Community College of Baltimore County
Libraries empowering communities: A transnational perspective
Clara M. Chu, Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
Pictured R-L: Michael Huang, Andrew Lee, Liya Deng, Angela Yang, Clara Chu, Haipeng Li, Lian Ruan, and Raymond Wang
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