(1) Southwest Chapter held a holiday gathering on Nov. 6th and invited Eileen Liu from Tsai Feng Books, Inc. to be our guest speaker presenting newly released and popular books in Chinese, including fictions, non-fiction, and children’s literature. Participating members enjoyed a very informative presentation and many books brought along by Eileen Liu for her presentation ended in the hands of our members after the presentation. We also sold 7 copies of the CALA commemorative publication during that meeting and once again want to […]

The CALA Southwest Chapter is pleased to report the success of our annual program entitled: “Community Outreach : Tips & Successes” at the Texas Library Association Annual Convention in Houston, Texas on April 2, 2003. The distinguished panel included:   Angela Yang Manager, Fremont Libraries, Alameda County Library, Fremont, California (Current CALA President) Ling Hwey Jeng Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (CALA President, 1999-2000) Connie Wang Reference Librarian/Volunteers Coordinator, Houston Public Library, […]

CALA Southwest Chapter is pleased to report the success of our annual program entitled “The Future of Reference: Sharpen Your Skills” at the Texas Library Association Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas on April 24, 2002. The speakers were: George Teoh, Library Chair, Houston Community College, Northwest campus Felicia Chuang, Library Director, Psychiatry Library, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston Chloris Suk-Fong Yue, Reference Librarian, University of Houston at Clear Lake Cecilia Wang, Reference Librarian, Houston Public Library Wai-chi […]

The Southwest Chapter presented a program entitled “Lifelines for the Online Learners” at the Texas Library Association Annual Convention in San Antonio on March 30, 2001. The three speakers for this program were: Ms. Monica Wong, Head Librarian of El Paso Community College, NW Campus; Mr. Joe Old, English/MACO instructor of El Paso Community College; Ms. Joyce Thornton, Director for Specialized and Distance Services of Texas A & M University. The Speakers addressed the need for instructional support for distance […]

We are also very happy to report a successful program held on Thursday, April 13, 2000 in Houston at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference. The program “Creating a CD-ROM from scratch” was well presented by George Teoh, Library Chair, Houston Community College-Northwest. George demonstrated how he used digital camera, scanners, VCRs, audio cassette recorders and computers with CD writers to create CD-ROMs. The audience had a great feedback on George’s presentation. After the program, people were lining up to […]

CALA Southwest Chapter is pleased to announce our Feature Speaker and Program for the upcoming TLA (Texas Library Association) Annual Conference in April 1999: Speaker: Ms. Monica Wong Head Librarian, Northwest Center El Paso Community College Title: Libraries in a War Zone Date: April 22, 1999 Time: 11:00 am – 11:50 am Place: Dallas, Texas Summary:  Reporting on the experiences gained from a 1997 ALA fellowship in Israel, Monica Wong, Head librarian of The El Paso Community College, will discuss […]

In early December 2007, I incorporated a library tour before the lunch gathering. Chapter Vice President/President Elect, Grace Gu, who worked as a head librarian at the Conrad N. Hilton Library at the University of Houston (UH), gave us a tour of the library. The library houses some hotel management books, cook books and a special and private collection from the Hilton family. In mid-May 2008, Irene Ke, the Director of Library Instruction and Information Literacy program at UH-Central campus, […]

President (1998-1999): Chloris Suk Fong YueReference LibrarianUniversity of Houston – Clear Lake yueC@cl.uh.edu   Vice-President/President-Elect (1998-1999): Kwei-feng HsuReference LibrarianFort Bend County – First Colony Branch Hsu@victoria.lib.tx.us   Treasurer (1998-1999): Terry WangHead of Science and Engineering LibraryUniversity of Texas – Arlington Wang@library.uta.edu