MW Chapter's 2002 Annual Program
Held in Chicago, June 1st

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On June 1st, our Chapter's 2002 Annual Program has been successfully held at the University of Illinois at Chicago. About forty people have participated this one-day program. At the program, Dr. Lee, Hwa-wei, key-note speaker, Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries and three other panelists, Sandra Balderrama, Director of ALA Diversity Office, Haipeng Li from Ohio Oberlin College and Jun-lin Pan from Northern Illinois University, have given an eye-opening and very touching speech with topics on knowledge management, diversity, building a bridge with the outside world and promoting Chinese materials to Chinese users. The four interest groups in the afternoon also provided a good opportunity for participants learning some new things and asked questions in CJK/OCLC, international exchange, CORC, and e-skills led by four specialists Shuh-Jiuan Chen, Shuyong Jiang, Xudong Jin, and , Li Fu. The whole program is held in a very warm and friendly atmosphere from the beginning to the end.

The Program provided a good chance for people to exchange and share new ideas. Participants feel that we need this kind of opportunity to get together and it can not be solely replaced by e-communications.

Two local Chinese newspapers and one Chinese TV station have gathered the news at the Program and interviewed our speakers.

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