Writing and Articles

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. (2022).  Changes in the Library Landscape Regarding Visible Minority Librarians in Canada. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 17(4): 36–70. [Link]



Cho, Allan, Afra Bolefski, Cecilia Tellis, Lei Jin & Maha. (2022). Kumaran. Designing the Diversity of Canadian Libraries: Excerpts from the CARL Inclusion Perspectives Webinar by Racialized Library Colleagues. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 17.2:(1-18). [Link]


Lo, Patrick, Holly Hok Yin Chan, Angel Wing Man Tang, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho, Erie See-To, Jasmine He, Sarah Kenderdine, & Jeffrey Shaw.  Visualising and Revitalising Traditional Chinese Martial Arts – Visitors’ Engagement and Learning Experience at the 300 Years of Hakka Kung Fu. Library Hi Tech.  [Link]


Cho, Allan, & Meredith-Lobay, Megan. (2018). From humanities computing to the digital humanities: a literature review. Digital Library Perspectives, 34(3): 154-161. [Link]


Patrick Lo, Allan Cho, Belle Kun-Kei Law, Dickson K.W. Chiu & Bradley Allard (2017). Progressive Trends in Electronic Resources Management Among Academic Libraries in Hong Kong, Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services. [Link]


Yip, T., Chiu, D. K., Cho, A., & Lo, P. (2017). 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, 1-9. [Link]


Cho, Allan. (2017).  Maddie's Ascent.  BC Bookworld, 31(1): 25[Link]


Cho, A. (2016). The Rise of the Innovation Commons: A Conversation with City University of Hong Kong's Candy Lau. Journal of East Asian Libraries, 2016(163), 7. [Link]


Cho, A. (2016). The Seto Collection in the UBC Asian Library: Its Usefulness to Scholars and Students. Journal of East Asian Libraries, 162. [Link]


Lo, P., Cho, A., Leung, M. H., Chiu, D. K., Ko, E. H. T., & Ho, K. W. K. (2016). Use of smartphones by art and design students for accessing library services and learning. Library Hi Tech, 34(2). [Link]


Lo, P., Chiu, D. K., Dukic, Z., Cho, A., & Liu, J. (2016). 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. [Link]


Cho, A. (2015).  Chinese character metadata: the key to ensure consistency for cataloging and discoverability of Chinese-language materials. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies.  10(1), 28-36. [Link]


Cho, A. (2013). YouTube and academic libraries: building a digital collection. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25(1), 39-50.  [Link]


Cho, A. (2011). Bringing History to the Library: University-Community Engagement in the Academic Library. Computers in Libraries, 31(4), 15.  [Link]


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


Cho, A., & Li, Y. (2011). Libraries in a digital frontier: preserving Chinese Canadian cultural heritage. In Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation (pp. 35-38). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.  [Link]


Giustini, D., Hooker, D., & Cho, A. (2009). Social cataloguing: an overview for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 30(4), 133-138.  [Link]


Cho, A., & Giustini, D. (2008). Web 3.0 and health librarians: an introduction. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 29(1), 13-18.  [Link]


Barsky, E., & Cho, A. (2007). Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 28(2), 59-61.  [Link]


Cho, A., & Giustini, D. (2007). The semantic web as a large, searchable catalogue: A librarian’s perspective. Semantic Report, 2007.


Cho, A. (2007). An introduction to mashups for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 28(1), 19-22.  [Link]