Presentations

Cho, Allan, Kitayama Yen, Tomoko & Chelsea Shriver, “A Meeting of many: Collaborative programming acknowledging the 80th anniversary of Japanese Canadian forced dispersal.” Keeping It ReAL & BCALS 2022 Winter Event.  November 18, 2023. [Link]


Lei, Jin, Afra Bolefski, Allan Cho, and Cecilia Tellis.  "CARL Inclusion Perspectives Webinar Series: Second Panel Featuring Racialized Library Colleagues."  Canadian Academic Research Libraries (CARL), June 29, 2022. [Link]


Li, Yanli, Maha Kumaran, Allan Cho, Valentina Ly, Suzanne Fernando & Michael David Miller.
"Racism in academic libraries: Preliminary Findings from the 2021 ViMLoC Redux Survey."  Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) virtual conference CAPAL21.  May 19, 2021. [Link]


Buhler, Jeremy, Eka Grguric, Evan Thornberry & Allan Cho.  "Collaborative development and publishing of open instructional content with GitHub."  ACCESS Library Conference. October 22, 2020. [Link]


Cho, Allan,  Nancy Garmer, Mandy Havert, Anne Melville & Matt Ogborn.  Online Library Services for Graduate Students.  ACRL Academic Library Services for Graduate Students Interest Group. June 2, 2020.  [Link]


Cho, Allan, and Sarah Zhang.  A Legacy of Race and Data: Mining the History of Exclusion.  HASTAC 2019.  HASTAC 2019 at UBC Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education.  Vancouver, British Columbia.  May 17, 2019.  [Link]


Cho, Allan, Maha Kumaran, & Manisha Khetarpal.  Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Canadian Libraries.  Saskatchewan Libraries Association (SLA) Conference.  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  May 3, 2019.  [Link]


Cho, Allan.  What Colour is Your Diversity? Demystifying Diversity for Librarians.  Special Libraries Association (SLA) Western Canada Chapter Webinar.  [Link]


Cho, Allan, Toycie Deng, and Patrick Lo. (2016, March 31). The Library Café as a Place for Collaborative Learning – Measuring the Educational, Social and Recreational Functions of University Library Cafés. Presentation at the International Academic Forum - Librasia 2016. Kobe, Japan. [Link]


Cho, Allan. (2015, May 21). YouTube and Academic Libraries: Building a Digital Collection. Presentation at the Acquisitions Institute 2015. Portland, OR. [Link]


Liu, Jing and Allan Cho. (2013, July 11). Studying China through UBC’s Digital Resources. Presentation at the 2013 International Conference on Chinese Digital Publishing and Digital Library, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. [Link]


Cho, A. (2013, May 30) Chinese Canadian Stories: A University-Community Initiative. Presentation at the Canadian Library Association (CLA), Winnipeg, Manitoba.  [Link]


Cho, A., Woolman, J. (2013, May 10). “The Social Library.” Presentation at the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA), Richmond, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A. (2013, May 10). Chinese Canadian Stories”: a University–Community Collaboration Project.” Presentation at the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA), Richmond, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A., Wilson, B., & Dyanakatar, S. (2012, May 19). Building a Virtual Museum in a Library: Augmented reality as an educational technology. Presentation at the 16th Annual Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Institute, Vancouver, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A., & J. Poon. (2012, May 17), Bilingual Metadata and Discovery: Don’t Let Your Chinese Archives Get Lost In Translation. Paper presented at the 5th WCILCOS International Conference on Chinese Overseas Studies, Vancouver, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A., & Wong, D. (2012, May 18), “Chinese Canadian Stories”: a University–Community Collaboration Project. Paper presented at the 5th WCILCOS International Conference on Chinese Overseas Studies, Vancouver, BC.  [Link]


Cho., A., & Li, Y. (2011, October 25). Libraries in a Digital Frontier: Preserving Chinese Canadian Cultural Heritage. Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICDAL 2011, Beijing, China.  [Link]


A. Cho. (2011, October 17). Bringing History to the Library: University-Community Engagement. Presentation at the Internet Librarian 2011, Monterey, California.  [Link]


Cho, A., Turgano, R., & McCauley, A. (2011, April 27). The New Age of Librarianship? The Different Roads That Lead to 'Librarianism.’ Presentation at the British Columbia Library Association Conference 2011, Victoria, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A. (2009, November 24). Social Media in Academic Libraries: Social Media in the Workplace, Current Trends and Work Practices. Presentation at the Special Libraries Association (SLA), Western Canada Chapter Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC.  [Link]


Cho, A. (2009, May 11). Bringing the Past to the Present: Chinese Canadian Family History and Migration Collections and Programs at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Presentation at the 4th WCILCOS International Conference on Chinese Overseas Studies, Guangzhou, China.  [Link]


Cho, A. (2009, February 6). MashUps Working in a Library Near You Right Now. Presentation at the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Conference, Washington, D.C.  [Link]


Cho, A., Doyle, A., Giustini, D., Lawson, K., Lee, T., Naslund, J. A., Yuen, E, & Yan-Mountain, M. (2008, August 6). Dimensions of Responsive Multicultural Library Services at the University of British Columbia (UBC): Successes and Challenges. Paper presented at the IFLA 2008 - Pre-conference of the Section on Services to Multicultural Populations: “Multicultural to Intercultural: Libraries Connecting Communities,” Vancouver, BC.  [Link]