cuny shanghai library faculty exchange program
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- Why did I apply?
- Acceptance & Preparation
- Arrival
- Library Activities
- Teaching Activities
- Academic Visits
- Culture Shock
- Departure/Conclusion
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- Why did I apply?
- I wish to learn.
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- How academic libraries in China are managed?
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- How do academic libraries in China market and promote their services and resources?
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- How is library instruction delivered?
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- What is the physical layout ?
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- Departmental structure of academic libraries
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- Acceptance and Preparation
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- Obtained F Visa (business)
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- Read briefly about life in China
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- Customs, language, and education
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- Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
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- Communism post 1949
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- Golden Shield Project
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- Purchased books on PinYin
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- Arrival
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- I arrived May 4, 2011 at 3:45pm China time (3:45am NYC time) after a 14 hour flight.
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- Mr. Zhan Huaqing from Shanghai University Library arrived to meet me.
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- Received monthly stipend, I.D. card, food card,travel card, and dorm keys.
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- Went to sleep at 6:00pm (6:00am NYC time)
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- Shanghai University Library ,
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- 3 libraries across 3 campuses
- Main library(Baochan Campus-main campus)
- Total floor space of409,000 square feet
- 25 reading rooms and 3,000 seats.
- Contains more than 3 million volumes and over 4,600 periodicals
- Shaped like an open book
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- Departments at the SHU Library:
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- Circulation
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- Reading Room (Reference Area)
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- Serials
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- Acquisitions
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- Cataloging
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- Interlibrary Loan
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- Special Collections (separate from the Archives)
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- Information Technology
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- Information Retrieval (Reference /Instruction)
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- Office (Public Relations and Library Administration)
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- Library Activities
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- Worked Monday-Friday from 7:30am-3:30pm under the direction of the Office department
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- Given office space with an Internet PC workstation
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- Lunch was 11:00am-12:30pm.
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- Food was funded by the government (meals were 5 RMB= 75 cents)
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- Responsibilities:
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- Facilitating 4 workshops over the 4 weeks
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- Teaching 4 hours a week to MLIS students
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- Shadowing at the reference desk
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- Ticketing students
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9. 10. Student residences bicycles More bicycles Waterways run through Shanghai and around campus 11. 12.
- Library Activities
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- Facilitated Workshops for SHU Librarians
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- Research and publication requirements of library faculty at CSI/CUNY
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- Comparison of reference and instruction responsibilities
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- Public Relations activities in academic libraries
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- Co-presented with Ryan Phillips (Newman Library, Baruch College/CUNY) to Shanghai Normal University on our roles as Instruction/Reference Librarians
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- Teaching Activities
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- Provided 16 hours of lecture topics
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- Topics included:
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- Liaison Librarian program at U.S. academic libraries
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- Information Literacy 101
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- Cloud Computing 101
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- Social Responsibility in Academic Libraries
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- Print versus Electronic Resources
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- What is a Reference Librarian?
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- Services for Different Users in Academic Libraries
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- Criteria When Selecting an Electronic Resource
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- Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship
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- Improving Student Information Literacy
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- Public Relations in Academic Libraries
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- Academic Library Visits
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- Visited the following academic libraries
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- Jiao Tong University
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- Shanghai Normal University
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- Shanghai University (all three campuses)
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- Fudan University
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- Zhejiang University
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- Chinese Academy of the Sciences, Shanghai Campus
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- Public Library Visits
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- Shanghai Public Library
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- Hangzhou Public Library
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- Weekend Excursions:SelectedBeijing Sites
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- The Great Wall(Mutianyu section)
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- Forbidden City
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- Tiananmen Square
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- Buddhist Temple
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- Vegan restaurant
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- Weekend Excursions: Selected Shanghai Sites
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- Attended Orthodox Shabbat service
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- Yuyuan Garden
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- Peoples Square
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- The Bund (waterfront dividing old Shanghai with new Shanghai)
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- Nanjing Road (similar to Times Square)
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- Qi Bao old town
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- French Concession neighbourhood
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- Old Shanghai
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- Vegan restaurants and Starbucks
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- Weekend Excursions:Hangzhou Sites
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- VisitedZhejiang University with other librarians from SHU
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- Took high speed train(220 miles/hr)
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- West Lake,(historic site)
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- Hangzhou Public Library
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- Downtown market
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- Culture Shock
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- Language
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- Traffic (plethora of cars, people, bicycles, electric bikes)
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- Many stray cats and dogs
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- Censorship (news media, Internet)
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- Trouble finding vegetarian Food
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- Concluding Observations:
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- Librarians have both professional and paraprofessional duties
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- Many library directors are scholars (Ph.D.) but not trained librarians
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- Academic libraries are comprised of rooms, rather than open spaces like North American academic libraries
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- Most younger people in China learn English but many may be too shy to speak.
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- A person is addressed by their surname first(ex: Polger Mark Aaron)
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- Pedestrians do NOT have the right of way
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- Cigarette smoking is a norm amongst teenage and adult men