{"id":382,"date":"2016-03-22T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/?p=382"},"modified":"2016-03-23T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:45:44","slug":"gma-professional-development-day-2016-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"GMA Professional Development Day 2016 a Great Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19<sup>th<\/sup>, GMA members from three states (Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania) and District of Columbia met at the beautiful Fenwick Library of George Mason University and had a great time to network and engage in scholarly exchanges.\u00a0 Topics covered are diverse and interesting.\u00a0 The presentations are well researched and the discussions were stimulating. \u00a0\u00a0Participants are intrigued by the various expertise and rich experience of each other.\u00a0 \u00a0They also enjoyed a tour of the new Fenwick Library with state-of-the-art equipment and cutting-edge furnishing.\u00a0 The day was ended with a happy feast at Nanjing Bistro!<\/p>\n<p>A big \u201cThank You\u201d to Andrew Lee, who invested much time and effort in hosting the event!<\/p>\n<p>Selective presentations are provided below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Chinese Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War: A Literature Review \u2013 Andrew Lee, George Mason University Libraries, and Zhimin Chen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Guangzhou.pdf\">From advanced placement to parallel enrollment- The role of school library media specialists in preparing high school students for the new SAT<\/a>\u2013 Dr. Raymond Wang, Community College of Baltimore County<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/LibQualPresentaton2016.pdf\">We\u2019re listening: assessment for data-driven library decision making<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Hong Wu, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College<\/li>\n<li>Work for CALA, Grow up with CALA \u2013 How CALA Helps My Professional Development\u00a0\u2013 Xudong Jin, Baltimore City Community College<\/li>\n<li>Google Books and Its Intended and Unintended Benefits \u2013 Zehao Zhou, York College of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Interactive Library Floor Map \u2013 Zhimin Chen and Andrew Lee<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hemingway-Love.pdf\">Hemingway Love<\/a> \u2013 Lucy Qian, American Institute for International Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Testimony from Dr. Raymond Wang:<br \/>\n&#8220;I want to thank you again for putting together such a wonderful program last Saturday. I learned so much from each and everyone and appreciated the various expertise from CALA members. Thanks also to Sabrina for recommending Nanjing Bistro which is truly not disappointing. I hope we can keep it as a GMA tradition and look forward to more professional development in the future.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-393\" src=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"gma2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2-174x131.jpg 174w, http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/gma2-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are looking forward to having more GMA members join us next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On March 19th, GMA members from three states (Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania) and District of Columbia met at the beautiful Fenwick Library of George Mason <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/?p=382\" title=\"GMA Professional Development Day 2016 a Great Success\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gma.chapters.cala-web.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}