Please join us for an STS (end of) Summer Panel Program!
Thursday, August 26th from 1:00-2:30pm (Eastern Daylight Time),
“Celebrating and Showing Support for Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Colleagues in Librarianship and in Our Communities”
Co-sponsored by: the Science and Technology (STS) section of the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA).
Zoom Registration Link: bit.ly/3lRFSBG
Learn about contributions of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander librarians and contributions of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) to librarianship. The panel will include discussion of how (science) librarians can show their support for AAPI colleagues and community members, from outreach ideas to fighting anti-Asian racism and xenophobia.
Panelists
- Janet Clarke, Co-Editor, Asian American Librarians and Library Services: Activism, Collaborations, and Strategies; former Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) president; Associate Dean of Research & User Engagement, Stony Brook University Libraries
- Wenli Gao, President, Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA); Data Services Librarian, University of Houston Libraries
- Jenay Solomon, Library Liaison to Asian Pacific American Cultural Center; Undergraduate Engagement Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries
- Anuradha Vedantham, Member-at-Large, APALA; Assistant University Librarian for Research Services, Princeton University Library
Moderator
- Bonnie L. Fong, Vice-Chair, Science and Technology Section (STS) of Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL); Physical Sciences Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries
Please feel free to contact:
Bonnie (LibrarianBonnieFong@gmail.com) or Ginny Pannabecker, STS Publicity Officer (vpannabe@vt.edu) if you have any questions.