Asian Canadian Librarianship - A New Beginning

While much has been written about Chinese Americans and Asian Americans librarians, there has yet to be an article about Asian Canadian librarians even though the history of Asian librarians working in Canada have been strong. Quite recently, the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) launched a series of conferences and courses focusing on Asian Canadian Studies. Amerasia recently celebrated the Anniversaries 1907 Race Riots Conference in Vancouver, B.C. with a special issue called "Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel." Thus marked an historic moment in which scholars from across different disciplines pushed forth this discipline with its own unique set of methods, topics, and institutional locations. During my tenure as an academic librarian at the University of British Columbia's Humanities and Social Sciences Division, I have had the opportunity to meld my intellectual interests with my library training in experimenting with this new and growing field with Web 2.0 technologies. Can Asian Canadian Studies be applied to the field of librarianship? We'll see.