CALA Member Dr Lee was awarded the Medal of Appreciation by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand

This past April, CALA member Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, was awarded the Medal of Appreciation by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand for his role both as the founding library director and as a member of the International Advisory Committee in the rebuilding of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) library after it was damaged by a devastating flooding which effected about two-third of the country in 2011. The entire AIT campus, including its library, was inundated under 6 ft. of water for about two months and most of the library collections were damaged.

Dr. Lee was the founding director of the AIT Library and Regional Information Center in Thailand from 1968 to 1975. It was exactly 50 years ago Dr. Lee was recruited by the U.S. Agency for International Development to join a team of 12 American engineering professors and administrative professionals traveling to Bangkok, Thailand for establishing the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), a regional graduate school of engineering and technology. The project was an international initiative in which countries around the world joined forces to successfully establish such a graduate school in Asia.

In 2014, Dr. Lee was invited by AIT President, Dr. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, to serve on the International Advisory Committee for the Library Modernization Project under the honorary chair, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. The committee headed the fundraising initiative to rebuild the AIT library.

In acknowledgement of the highly successful international fundraising efforts and his advisory role in the design of the modernized library, Dr. Lee was recognized at the opening of the renovated AIT library on April 27, 2018.

From his legacy at the AIT Library to the many key library positions he held in the U.S., included 21 years as the dean of libraries at Ohio University, three years as the visiting distinguished scholar and consultant at OCLC, and five years as the chief of Asian division at the Library of Congress, Dr. Lee and his wife retired to Jacksonville, Florida in 2008.    Dr. Lee has been a CALA member since 1975 and served as CALA president in 1978-79. In 2015, he was the first Asian American librarian to receive the Melvil Dewey Medal awarded by American Library Association.

Dr Lee was awarded the Medal of Appreciation by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of ThailandDr Lee was awarded the Medal of Appreciation1

Invitation to the CALA SE Program, Tour and Social @ ALA MidWinter

Dear CALA members and friends,

You’re cordially invited to the CALA Southeast Chapter spring program to be held in Atlanta on January 20, 2017, 12:30-5pm. The program will include several talks, a tour and digital map showcase of the Georgia State University’s Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment and a social dinner. Please check out the details below.

Thank you and hope to see you in Atlanta!

CALA Southeast Chapter 2017 Spring Program

Sharing Your Professional Expertise and Your Library’s Collections

 Visiting a Library, a Museum or a Cultural Institution in Atlanta

Time: January 20, 2017, 12:30-5:00 pm

Location: Georgia State University (GSU) Library Downtown Atlanta Campus

Meet at: GSU library North entrance

12:30-1:00 Virtual Reality Game Demo (If you can make it!!)

1:00-2:30pm Presentations and Member Meeting

Linked Data in the Library, Tongyang (Sunny) Zhang, University of Alabama

Librarians Work with Faculty to Support Their Teaching and Research (East Asian Studies Related at FSU), Yue Li, Florida State University Libraries

Experiment and Explore Data Services in Academic Libraries, Ximin Mi, Georgia State University (GSU) Library Downtown Atlanta Campus

Cataloging Games and Toys with RDA, Peng Mu, Samford University Library

Diving into the University Knowledge Community: Navigating the Expanded Role of the Metadata Librarian, Sai Deng, University of Central Florida Libraries

Practical Usage of WorldCat for Research and Publications: Challenges of Cataloging Asian-Language Resources, Garry Guan, Managing Editor of Chinese Cultural Relics

2:30-3:00pm Q & A

3:00-5:00pm Digital Map Projects Showcase @GSU CURVE (Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment)

5:00-7:00pm Social Time and Dinner

If interested, you are welcome to join us for dinner in the Golden House Chinese Restaurant (金源大酒楼, 1600 Pleasant hill Rd, Duluth, GA 30096)

Program Online Access Instruction: Download WebEx app to your computer or smart phone; open WebEx, “Join Meeting”, put in the meeting number: 737 984 358, and your personal information. The password is cala.

Or, send your email to Ximin Mi at ximinmi@gmail.com, she will add you to the WebEx meeting invited attendee list, and then you should be able to log in by following the link below: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m3c41a60687420024265a5367382f1fcf

CALA Southeast Chapter

Sai Deng, Ximin Mi, Yue Li, and Peng Mu

 

CALA Southeast Chapter 2017 Spring Program

Sharing Your Professional Expertise and Your Library’s Collections

 Visiting a Library, a Museum or a Cultural Institution in Atlanta

Time: January 20, 2017   1:00-5:00pm

Location:Georgia State University (GSU) Library Downtown Atlanta Campus

Meet at: GSU library North entrance. (More detailed directions will be given later.)

SE Chapter Member Meeting (1-2:30pm)

Every member attending is invited to give a brief presentation of 10-15 minutes about his/her work and any East Asia-related collection / services in your library, if any

After this session, Ximin will briefly show and introduce some new projects in the GSU library.

Local Museum Tour – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Museum (3:00-5:00;  2:30-3:00 Travel to the museum, car pool will be provided)

We will head over to CDC museum and have a tour there, including the history of CDC and its science collection, and the development of treatments to some diseases. More information is available at CDC museum website: https://www.cdc.gov/museum/

Social Time and Dinner (5:00-7:00pm)

If interested, you are welcome to join us for dinner in the Golden House Chinese Restaurant (金源大酒楼, 1600 Pleasant hill Rd, Duluth, GA 30096)

Please contact Yue Li (yli3@fsu.edu), Ximin Mi (ximinmi@gmail.com) or Peng Mu (pmu@samford.edu) if you are interested in attending the meeting, the museum tour and/or the dinner.

CALA Southeast Chapter

Sai Deng, Ximin Mi, Yue Li, and Peng Mu

Happy Thanksgiving

Dear Chapter Officers and Members,

I am very thankful for the support you have given through the past few months we have worked together! As we had our first chapter program successfully held in Orlando, we expect to have another one in Atlanta or more in the coming spring. Our officers Yue, Ximin and Peng are planning for the Atlanta gathering and details will come out early next year.

I’m also calling for items for the CALA Mid-term Chapter Report (July 2016-December 2016). Please send me anything you’d like to be included in the report by December 12th. The items can be, but not limited to, your publications, promotions, awards and other achievements.

Thank you and happy Thanksgiving!

Sai

Sai Deng
CALA Southeast Chapter President, 2016-2017