President Ziyang Xu University of Oklahoma Ziyang.Xu-1@ou.edu Past President Yumin Jiang University of Colorado Anschutz yumin.jiang@cuanschutz.edu Treasurer & Communications Officer Xiao Zeng University of Houston xzeng4@Central.UH.EDU Membership Officer Angel Tang University of Colorado Boulder Angel.Tang@colorado.edu Webmaster Xiaoyu Duan Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi xiaoyu.duan@tamucc.edu
President Yumin Jiang University of Colorado Anschutz yumin.jiang@cuanschutz.edu Vice President Ziyang Xu University of Oklahoma Ziyang.Xu-1@ou.edu Past President Xiao Zeng University of Houston xzeng4@Central.UH.EDU Membership Chair Daniel (Yi) Xiao Texas A&M University Libraries danxiao@library.tamu.edu Webmaster Xiaoyu Duan Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi xiaoyu.duan@tamucc.edu
President Xiao Zeng University of Houston xzeng4@Central.UH.EDU Vice President Yumin Jiang University of Colorado Anschutz yumin.jiang@cuanschutz.edu Past President Jane (Jie) Pan Austin Public Library jpantxl@gmail.com Membership Chair Daniel (Yi) Xiao Texas A&M University Libraries danxiao@library.tamu.edu Webmaster Xiaoyu Duan Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi xiaoyu.duan@tamucc.edu
President Jane (Jie) Pan Austin Public Library jpantxl@gmail.com Treasurer Klairon Tang Houston Community College klairon.tang@hccs.edu Past-President Fen Lu University of Texas at Arlington fenlu@uta.edu Membership Chair Daniel (Yi) Xiao Texas A&M University Libraries danxiao@library.tamu.edu Webmaster Xiaoyu Duan Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi xiaoyu.duan@tamucc.edu
2026 CALA SE & SW Chapters Joint Online Conference: Conference Invitation Dear CALA Members, Greetings from the 2026 CALA Southeast and Southwest Joint Online Conference Programming Committee. CALA Southeast (SE) and Southwest (SW) Chapters will hold a Joint Online Conference on Friday, April 24, 2026, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (Central Time). Conference Theme: Collective Wisdom: Best Practices Across LIS CommunitiesPanel Title: Voices from the Field: International Library Transformation “Across the Ocean”Although local contexts, infrastructures, and cultural frameworks vary, […]
2025 CALA SE & SW Chapters Joint Online Conference: Conference Invitation Dear CALA Members, Greetings from the 2025 CALA Southeast and Southwest Joint Online Conference Planning Committee. CALA Southeast (SE) and Southwest (SW) Chapters will hold a Joint Online Conference on Friday, May 23rd, 2025, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm (Central Time).Conference Theme: Library of the Future: Trends, Innovations, and OpportunitiesPanel Title: AI in the Stacks: Navigating the Future of Libraries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Please see the […]
CALA Southwest Chapter 2018 Annual Conference May 8th, 2018 1-1:30pm The Open Access Textbook Initiative at Texas A&M University Libraries, by Rusty Kimball, Geosciences Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries An effort at Texas A&M University Libraries to promote the adoption of existing Open Access textbooks began with a request by the Texas A&M President to the libraries to identify ways to decrease textbook costs for students. An idea from the head of the Scholarly Communications department led to the creation […]