The 2023 APALA Literature Awards winners have been announced! Congratulations to the winners and honorees! Read the full announcement here.
APALA Member Voices at ACRL 2023 in Pittsburgh, March 15-18
Some APALA members will be presenting at the upcoming ACRL 2023 conference in Pittsburgh. It’s wonderful to see that some of our perspectives will be reflected at this major conference. Please join them if you are planning to be there. Some sessions will be recorded/online for registered conference participants:
- Factors Affecting Asian Pacific Americans’ Academic Library Leadership Career Choice (in-person, contributed paper to be published open) Binh Le
- Promotion and Tenure in Academic Libraries: Impact on Librarians of Color (panel, hybrid) Mihoko Hosoi, Adriene Lim, Denise Pan, Hilary Seo
- Rising to the Occasion: Foreign-born Asian Women Leaders in Academic Libraries (panel, in-person) Jee Davis, Mihoko Hosoi, Chellammal Vaidyanathan, Annie Wu
– Mihoko Hosoi
In January 2023, APALA members Sarah Park Dahlen and Philip Espe participated in the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s planning convening for the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival. The convening was held at the University of Georgia. The AA Lit Fest will be held in Washington, D.C. on August 4-6, 2023. Details forthcoming: https://smithsonianapa.org/lit/
Applications are now being accepted for the Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture Grant. Read more here. Learn more about the grant here. Applications due: March 15, 2023.