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2024-09-04

NCL Participates in the Poster Session and Other Events at the 2024 ALA Annual Conference

From June 27 to July 2, the National Central Library sent two staff members to attend the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference in San Diego. NCL had two of its posters accepted to the poster session, one on Taiwan Memory and one on its Contemporary Celebrities’ Manuscripts database, displaying NCL's efforts and achievements in collecting and digitizing materials and adding value to them.

The ALA conference is a major event in the library science world, as well as an important international venue at which NCL has been cultivating relationships for many years. This year’s conference had several thousand visitors from the US and around the world, including librarians, educators, authors, publishers, and professionals. There were over 200 sessions of presentations and discussion meetings, with over 500 libraries and publishers participating in the exhibition. NCL had two posters accepted this year: “Taiwan Memory, Memory of Taiwan: A Collaborative Resource for Taiwanese Historical Texts and Images in the NCL Taiwan Memory System” and “Penning Stories: Contemporary Celebrities' Manuscripts Collection at National Central Library.” Many visitors stopped by during the session to understand more about these two posters, enabling NCL to achieve its purpose in international marketing as well as provide more innovation and new ideas in future library developments through the displays and interactions.

The National Central Library, the National Taiwan University Library, the National Library of Public Information, and the libraries from National Chengchi University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Chung Hsing University, and National Cheng Kung University all participated in the many events held in this year’s conference. They also toured the San Diego Central Library and the Geisel Library at the University of California San Diego as a group. This gave them a much deeper understanding of service policies and operational developments at public libraries and research libraries in the US. The insights gained will provide ideas for further development of services back home.

Last Update Time：2024-09-05

NCL’s poster on its Taiwan Memory database
Assistant Editor Joyce Chen explained NCL’s poster on its Contemporary Celebrities’ Manuscripts database
A group photo of the delegation to this year’s ALA annual conference