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CUNY Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program (summer 2011)

CUNY Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program (summer 2011)

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CUNY Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program (summer 2011)

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  1. Why did I apply? • Acceptance & Preparation • Arrival • Library Activities • Teaching Activities • Academic Visits • Culture Shock • Departure/Conclusion

  2. Why did I apply? • I wish to learn…. • How academic libraries in China are managed? • How do academic libraries in China market and promote their services and resources? • How is library instruction delivered? • What is the physical layout ? • Departmental structure of academic libraries

  3. Acceptance and Preparation • Obtained F Visa (business) • Read briefly about life in China • Customs, language, and education • Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) • Communism post 1949 • Golden Shield Project • Purchased books on PinYin

  4. Arrival • I arrived May 4, 2011 at 3:45pm China time (3:45am NYC time) after a 14 hour flight. • Mr. Zhan Huaqing from Shanghai University Library arrived to meet me. • Received monthly stipend, I.D. card, food card, travel card, and dorm keys. • Went to sleep at 6:00pm(6:00am NYC time)

  5. Shanghai University Library , • 3 libraries across 3 campuses • Main library (Baochan Campus-main campus) • Total floor space of 409, 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

  6. Departments at the SHU Library: • Circulation • Reading Room (Reference Area) • Serials • Acquisitions • Cataloging • Interlibrary Loan • Special Collections (separate from the Archives) • Information Technology • Information Retrieval (Reference /Instruction) • Office (Public Relations and Library Administration)

  7. Library Activities • Worked Monday-Friday from 7:30am-3:30pm under the direction of the Office department • Given office space with an Internet PC workstation • Lunch was 11:00am-12:30pm. • Food was funded by the government (meals were 5 RMB= 75 cents) • Responsibilities: • Facilitating 4 workshops over the 4 weeks • Teaching 4 hours a week to MLIS students • Shadowing at the reference desk • Ticketing students

  8. More bicycles Waterways run through Shanghai and around campus Student residences bicycles

  9. Library Activities • Facilitated Workshops for SHU Librarians • Research and publication requirements of library faculty at CSI/CUNY • Comparison of reference and instruction responsibilities • Public Relations activities in academic libraries • Co-presented with Ryan Phillips (Newman Library, Baruch College/CUNY) to Shanghai Normal University on our roles as Instruction/Reference Librarians

  10. Teaching Activities • Provided 16 hours of lecture topics • Topics included: • Liaison Librarian program at U.S. academic libraries • Information Literacy 101 • Cloud Computing 101 • Social Responsibility in Academic Libraries • Print versus Electronic Resources • What is a Reference Librarian? • Services for Different Users in Academic Libraries • Criteria When Selecting an Electronic Resource • Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship • Improving Student Information Literacy • Public Relations in Academic Libraries

  11. Academic Library Visits • Visited the following academic libraries • Jiao Tong University • Shanghai Normal University • Shanghai University (all three campuses) • Fudan University • Zhejiang University • Chinese Academy of the Sciences, Shanghai Campus • Public Library Visits • Shanghai Public Library • Hangzhou Public Library

  12. Weekend Excursions: Selected Beijing Sites • The Great Wall (Mutianyu section) • Forbidden City • Tiananmen Square • Buddhist Temple • Vegan restaurant

  13. Weekend Excursions: Selected Shanghai Sites • Attended Orthodox Shabbat service • Yuyuan Garden • People’s Square • The Bund (waterfront dividing old Shanghai with new Shanghai) • Nanjing Road (similar to Times Square) • QiBao old town • French Concession neighbourhood • Old Shanghai • Vegan restaurants and Starbucks

  14. Weekend Excursions: Hangzhou Sites • Visited Zhejiang University with other librarians from SHU • Took high speed train (220 miles/hr) • West Lake, (historic site) • Hangzhou Public Library • Downtown market

  15. Culture Shock • Language • Traffic (plethora of cars, people, bicycles, electric bikes) • Many stray cats and dogs • Censorship (news media, Internet) • Trouble finding vegetarian Food

  16. Concluding Observations: • Librarians have both professional and paraprofessional duties • Many library directors are scholars (Ph.D.) but not “trained” librarians • Academic libraries are comprised of rooms, rather than open spaces like North American academic libraries • Most younger people in China learn English but many may be too shy to speak. • A person is addressed by their surname first (ex: Polger Mark Aaron) • Pedestrians’ do NOT have the right of way • Cigarette smoking is a norm amongst teenage and adult men

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