Articles written by Allan Cho
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Librarianship and Social Intelligence
Through five powerful concepts, or the acronym "SPACE," social intelligence can help enhance the socially demanding and interpersonal-driven profession of librarianship.
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The Three Paradigms of Library Development
A fusion of heritage and the modern, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is a model of the three stages of academic library development.
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What Is Academic Libraries 2.0?
"The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student: Making the Connections" is one of the few titles in librarianship that grapples with the concepts of Academic Library 2.0.
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Magazine Publishing in Vancouver, B.C.
Although the magazine industry is flourishing in Canada, it continues to face stiff competition both within the industry and by external forces.
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Amplified Conferences in the Social Media World
With widespread wi-fi capabilities across campuses and the plethora of social network technologies, conferences are no longer confined to physically enclosed spaces.
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The Chung Collection's Chinese Canadian History
The Chung Collection is emblematic of the growth and progress of British Columbia and Canadian History, even before the age of multiculturalism.
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Twitter as a Microblogging Tool for Librarians
Although it has entered the lexicon of our everyday lives, many are still mystified about Twitter. Libraries can help engage users using Twitter as a mobile technology.
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Library 2.0 and Remixing Existing Services
A source of controversy among librarians themselves, Library 2.0 is a concept that challenges the status quo of how library services are delivered.
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Vancouver's Sun Yat-sen Classical Gardens
The first full-scale Ming dynasty garden constructed outside of China, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is known as one of "Vancouver's Living Treasure."
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Digitization of the Chinese Head Registers
Although only handful of academic studies have been made about the Chinese Canadian Head Tax, two historians have paved the way for further research into the Head Tax.
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The Chinese Head Tax in Canada
Although Chinese have been in Canada for over 200 years, the Head Tax has been a sad chapter of Canadian history which had not been addressed officially until 2006.
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How RDF Can Use MARC in the Semantic Web World
A language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web, Resource Description Framework is not unlike the metadata of library catalogues.
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Ontologies and Taxonomies In the Semantic Web
The current web is a mess that the Semantic Web promises to untangle. In order to do so, this new iteration of the Web depends on information organization.
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The New Canadian Ethnicity and Culture
Identity politics is dead, and with it the outdated models of ethnicity and race. Canada's new generation of young, educated, urban elites is defining Canada.
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Good Managers and Great Leadership
In an hierarchical organization, oftentimes the most challenging position is the "front-line manager,' - that is, the lower-level managers who supervise staff.
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The New Canadian Multiculturalism 2.0
Much has been written and discussed about multiculturalism in Canada. Recently, there have been suggestions about a new kind of multiculturalism influenced by the Web.
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Robert Steinberg's Sucessful Intelligences
We often think of IQ and EQ as the keystones for success in life and in the workforce. But recently, there have been studies about a third element: successful intelligen
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History of Asian Canadian Writing in Vancouver
Asian Canadian authors who have wrote about their identities have had a long history in Canada. Much of this occurred in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Yandex and Web Surfing in a Multilingual World
Yandex is one of the largest search engine companies in Russia. What it reminds us is that searching and the Web cannot be limited to an English Anglophone world.
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The Future of the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web consists ontologies, taxonomies, metadata, and resource standards. But the future of the Web is about moving from the digital back to the physical.
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Jerry Newman's My Life on the McJob
He wanted to find out how a fast food chain works after he was unapologetically offered a second burger after his daughter nearly swallowed a condom.
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The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden
An authentic classical Chinese garden of the Ming Dynasty, the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical promote Chinese cultu
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Pacific Canada In Canadian History
"Pacific Canada" is a term that reflects the diversity and regional differences across Canada. The city of Vancouver is one such example of such diversity.
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Teaching and Learning Digital Storytelling
"Digital Storytelling" is a promising technology, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell personal stories.
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How IVT Technology is Changing Cultural History
Although as a profession, archivists have worked side-by-side with historians through the ages, archival sciences is a relatively young profession.
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Academic, Public, Special, and School Libraries
More than just bricks and mortars, libraries are a reflection of the information age. Libraries are as different as the types of clientele and users they serve.
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hakia, Search Engines, and Librarians
hakia is working with librarians to help make its results even more credible in the attempt to win the race to ouster Google in the current search engine wars.
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Search Engines and Directories in the Deep Web
While many navigate the web for information comfortably believing that we are accessing the entire web for information, search engines are quite limited.
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The Google Books, Digitization and Libraries
In an effort to scan and make searchable the collections of several major libraries, the The Google Books Library Project provides an online library to the world.
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From Card Catalogs to Integrated Library Systems
Integrated library systems, often known simply in library circles as ILS, is used to manage how a library manages its items: including ownership, ordering, and billing.
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Second Life in Virtual Worlds and MMORPGs
Instead of viewing themselves as the gatekeepers of physical book collections, libraries are increasingly looking for digital methods of reaching out and marketing.
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How the Semantic Web is Changing Search Engines
For he next generation web to exist, there needs to be a concise way for users to find information and to search the web online. We take a look at what's out there.
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Library 2.0 and the New Librarianship
Although a controversial term, Library 2.0 is already well-engraved in the library lexicon. Library 2.0 represent a new way of performing library services.
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Mashups, Social Software, and Web 2.0
In merging two or more web programs together, web mashups are the next stage of Web 2.0 and are changing the way that the web is being used.
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Folksonomies and Social Tagging
Although folksonomies and social tagging have been definitively categorized as a Web 2.0 tool, their roots are derived from library cataloging and classification.
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History of Vancouver Chinatown
Many tourists visit Chinatown each year. But what many do not realize is that Chinatown rivals other Chinese cities such as Hong Kong in terms of historical significance
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From Documentation to Information Science
What is this mysterious field called 'Information Science?' This article dispels the myths by introducing key pioneers which formed this inter-discipline.
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Radio Frequency Identification in Libraries
Fading are the cataloguing using the Dewey Decimal System of the Library of Congress Classification system. Innovative technologies are quickly changing libraries.
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Open Access in Academic Libraries
The current publishing industry is a chaotic, overly expensive operation which many regard is scrambling frantically to stay afloat. Some say open access is the answer.
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Rise of Asian Canadian Literature
Canadian literature may be seem to be branded with the same big name authors. However, many may want to take notice of Asian Canadian authors, who are making a name now.
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The Exclusion of Asian Canadian Studies
Although the term "Asian Canadian" has been in use in research since the 1970's, it has been absent in academia. What is "Asian Canadian"?
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The Classical Chinese Novelist
A Hong Kong-based author who wrote a total of fifteen novels, Jin Yong is often considered the father of the modern Chinese martial arts novel.
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What Is The Semantic Web?
The current web represents an information anarchy. With search engines such as Google, does anyone actually find anything online? The Semantic Web solves this problem.
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What is Web 3.0?
What is Web 3.0? What is the difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web? This article will examine the confusion surrounding Web 3.0.
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