The Experience
Dr. Chen has over 35 years serving the library and information science community as an award-winning public and academic librarian, teacher, trainer, author, speaker, consultant, researcher, and innovator.
The Involvement
As an active crusader in the ALA since 1976, Dr. Chen takes pride in authoring the baseline document on citizens' information needs for the First White House Conference; three-term Councilor-at-Large (19811993); numerous committee involvement including Chair of the Council Committee on Legislation (1984-1985); member, Council-elected Assembly of Planning and Budget (1990-1992), Director of the Board of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), etc. She is also active in American Society for Information Science (ASIS), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Whether it's staying on the forefront of new technology, or meeting the challenges of leadership, Ching-chih Chen is...
ONE STEP BEYOND!
The Vision
Championing a free and open information society with goals of providing information access and improving information services for everyone.
The Agenda
€ Position libraries for the new information age, and prepare librarians for the challenges
€ Top priority is information access
€ Advocate the value of libraries
€ Campaign for more funding...
€ Push for adequate services to children and youth
€ Promote equity for librarians
€ Push for programs related to cultural diversity
€ Increase membership participation and improve management structure of the ALA
€ Many more...
The Activities
In addition to being author and editor of 26 books and over one hundred journal articles and reports, Dr. Chen has a devoted career as an educator in better preparing librarians for the new information age. She is a Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, as well as an energetic director of over 60 continuing education institutes relating to information technology, management and policy. She is also proud of her work, in 1994, with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Education in developing a series of 8 Science Reference Institutes offered to over 500 school and public libraries in Massachusetts.
Her deep concerns in global internetworking of libraries around the world prompted her to organize a series of international conferences on new information technology (NIT) sponsored by the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. These promote global information access and sharing.
Achiever
A representative sample of the many awards and honors that Dr. Chen has received include the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from her Alma Maters including the University of Michigan School of Library Science (1980) and National Taiwan University; the ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award (1983); election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985); ALA's Certificates of Appreciation (1985, 1989, 1993); the LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library Information Technology (1990); the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award (1994); and the Emerson Greenaway Distinguished Award of the New England Library Association (1994).
Dr. Ching-chih Chen loves to hear from you. Please contact her at:
Dr. Ching-chih Chen
Professor & Associate Dean
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Simmons College
00 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617-521-2804 Fax: 617-521-3192
email: cchen@vmsvax.simmons.edu
http://www.simmons.edu/~cchen/ALA/home.html
Innovator
Her pioneering work in interactive multimedia application development has won her many awards and recognition. Her internationally known The First Emperor of China multimedia CD-ROM was chosen by MacUser (October 1994) as one of the 50 best CD-ROMs for 1994; the videodisc version also won the Cindy Award of the Association for Visual Communicators in 1992. Her expertise and extensive background in the use of new information technology makes her the best qualified leader to lead the ALA in this digital environment.
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