We are pleased to announce that the 2013/2014 Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Mentorship Program is now open for applications.

The main goals of the CALA Mentorship Program are:

· To encourage and guide Chinese or Chinese American students of library and information science with career planning  · To help new Chinese American librarians to develop their professional careers  · To recruit and provide a pool of experienced Chinese American librarians as potential mentors

In order to participant in the mentorship program, valid CALA membership is required. Non-member can join CALA online at http://www.cala-web.org/node/306.

Please fill out the appropriate form to indicate your desire to be a “mentee” or a “mentor.” Participants of a previous year need to fill out the form again to join this year’s program.

The application forms are available below:

Mentee Application Form: http://www.cala-web.org/node/307

Mentor Application Form: http://www.cala-web.org/node/309

Please help to spread the word! Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the CALA Mentorship Committee members listed below.

Sincerely,

Vincci Kwong, (co-Chair) vkwong@iusb.edu

Haoyang Zhang, (co-chair) pzhang@uta.edu

Mei Zhang, mzhang48@wisc.edu