Writing and Articles

"Championing Change: The EDI Scholars-in-Residence Program at UBC Library."  Journal of Creative Library Practice.  2024, October 21. [Link]


Li, Yanli, Maha Kumaran, Allan Cho, Valentina Ly, Suzanne Fernando, and Michael David Miller. "Reiterating Visibility: Canadian Librarians’ Experiences of Racial Microaggressions via Findings from a Minority Librarians Network Redux Survey." The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 7, no. 3/4 (2023). [Link]


Vong, Silvia, Allan Cho, and Elaina Norlin. "The Five Labours of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Work of Racialized Academic Librarians." The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion 7, no. 3/4 (2023): 1-24. [Link]


Li, Yanli, Maha Kumaran, Allan Cho, Valentina Ly, Suzanne Fernando, and Michael David Miller. "Changes in the library landscape regarding visible minority librarians in Canada." Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice 17, no. 4 (2022): 36-70. [Link]


Cho, Allan, Afra Bolefski, Cecilia Tellis, Lei Jin, and Maha Kumaran. "Designing the diversity of Canadian libraries: Excerpts from the CARL Inclusion Perspectives webinar by racialized library colleagues." Partnership 17, no. 2 (2022): 1-18. [Link]


Lo, Patrick, Holly HY Chan, Angel WM Tang, Dickson KW Chiu, Allan Cho, Eric WK See-To, Kevin KW Ho, Minying He, Sarah Kenderdine, and Jeffrey Shaw. "Visualising and revitalising traditional Chinese martial arts: visitors’ engagement and learning experience at the 300 years of Hakka Kungfu." Library Hi Tech 37, no. 2 (2019): 269-288. [Link]


Cho, Allan, & Meredith-Lobay, Megan. (2018). From Humanities Computing to the Digital Humanities: a Literature Review. Digital Library Perspectives, 34, no.3 (2018): 154-161. [Link]


Lo, Patrick, Allan Cho, Belle Kun-Kei Law, Dickson KW Chiu, and Bradley Allard. "Progressive trends in electronic resources management among academic libraries in Hong Kong." Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 40, no. 1-2 (2017): 28-37. [Link]


Yip, Terry, Dickson KW Chiu, Allan Cho, and Patrick Lo. "Behavior and informal learning at night in a 24-hour space: A case study of the Hong Kong Design Institute Library." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 51, no. 1 (2019): 171-179. [Link]


Cho, Allan.  Maddie's Ascent.  BC Bookworld 31, no.1 (2017): 25[Link]


Cho, Allan. "The Rise of the Innovation Commons: A Conversation with City University of Hong Kong's Candy Lau." Journal of East Asian Libraries 2016, no. 163 (2016): 7. [Link]


Liu, Jing, Allan Cho, and Phoebe Chow. "The Seto Collection in the UBC Asian Library: Its Usefulness to Scholars and Students." Journal of East Asian Libraries 2016, no. 163 (2016): 6.  [Link]


Lo, Patrick, Dickson KW Chiu, Zvjezdana Dukic, Allan Cho, and Jing Liu. "Motivations for choosing librarianship as a second career among students at the University of British Columbia and the University of Hong Kong." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 49, no. 4 (2016): 424-437. [Link]


Li, Yu Lilly, and Allan Cho. "Chinese character metadata: the key to ensure consistency for cataloguing and discoverability of Chinese–language materials." International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 10, no. 1 (2015): 28-36. [Link]


Cho, Allan. "YouTube and academic libraries: Building a digital collection." Journal of electronic resources librarianship 25, no. 1 (2013): 39-50. [Link]


Cho, Allan. "Bringing History to the Library: University-Community Engagement in the Academic Library." Computers in Libraries 31, no. 4 (2011): 15-18. [Link]


Cho, Allan, and Todd Wong. Gung Haggis Fat Choy in Vancouver, BC: The Diversity of Canada. Diverse Magazine. 5 (2011): 24-27.   [Link]


Cho, Allan, and Yu Li. "Libraries in a digital frontier: preserving Chinese Canadian cultural heritage." In Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation: 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2011, Beijing, China, October 24-27, 2011. Proceedings 13, pp. 35-38. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. [Link]


Giustini, Dean, Daniel Hooker, and Allan Cho. "Social cataloguing: an overview for health librarians." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 30, no. 4 (2009): 133-138.  [Link]


Cho, Allan, and Giustini Dean. "Web 3.0 and health librarians: an introduction." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 29, no. 1 (2008): 13-18.  [Link]


Barsky, Eugene, and Allan Cho. "Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 28, no. 2 (2007): 59-61. [Link]


Cho, Allan. "An introduction to mashups for health librarians." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 28, no. 1 (2007): 19-22. [Link]