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Professor Ruhua Huang Wins the CALA Sally C. Tseng’s Professional Development Grant

2022-06-23 08:28:39

On June 9, the 2021-2022 Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Sally C. Tseng’s Professional Development Grant was published, Ruhua Huang, Professor at our school, was in the list. Professor Ruhua Huang was one of the two winners in the world.

Ruhua Huangis committed to the practice of information literacy education for the Chinese public. Since 2014,Information Retrieval, a massive open online course which she independently lectured, has been launched at the website https://www.icourses.cn/home/, which is in charge of by the Ministry of Education. TheInformation Retrievalcourse is opened twice a year, and has attracted nearly 250,000 students from all walks of life to register for study. In 2019 and 2022, the course was selected as the first batch of MOOC at https://www.xuexi.cn/, a learning platform directed by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, and the first batch of MOOC at https://www.smartedu.cn/, a learning platform directed by the Ministry of Education. The video of the course was played nearly 10 million times at https://www.bilibili.com/.

Ruhua Huang hasstrongly promoted the national library academic community and industry community to join hands to improve public information literacy education. In 2015, she put forward an initiative to the Steering Committee of Library Science Teaching of the Ministry of Education and the Library and Information Work Committee of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education to form National Library Science Online Course Alliance. In 2019, theAction Initiative for Improving Chinese Citizens' Information Literacy, written byRuhua Huang, was published by the Library Society of Chinato the whole country. In the same year, the Chinese public information literacy education training initiated by her was launched. In 2021, she organized many well-known experts across the country to publish themed articles online to explaintheAction Plan for Improving Digital Literacy and Skills of the Whole Peoplepublishedbythe Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission. In the same year,Ruhua Huangmade an interpretation from expert’s viewpoint of "National Action and Academic Interpretation from Information Literacy to Digital Literacy", one of the top ten academic hotspots in 2021 China's Library, Information, and Archives Management, and made a themed report onDigital Literacy and Skills Improvement: The Global Library Community is in Actionat the press conference of the top ten academic hotspots.

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) was founded in 1973, is a subsidiary of the American Library Association (ALA) and the International Federation of Library Associations Institutions (IFLA). It is the only professional organization in North America that aims to enhance communication among Chinese American librarians as well as between Chinese American librarians and other librarians. The CALA Sally C. Tseng’s Professional Development Grant aims at rewarding CALA members who have made important contributions to Library Science research and library cause, and promoting members to carry out research activities related to Library and Information Science.