Clara Chu Associate Professor Information Studies 210 GSE&IS (310) 206 9368 cchu@ucla.edu personal page

Education

Ph.D., Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, 1992
MLS.,Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, 1985
BA,University of British Columbia, Spanish Language and Literature (major), Psychology and French (minor), 1982

Research Interests

Multicultural library and information services; information seeking behavior; organization of information; subject access; bibliographic control; international and comparative information services; scholarly communication.

Recent Publications

"See, Hear, and Speak No Evil: A Content Approach to Evaluating Multicultural Multimedia Materials," RUSQ: Reference and User Services Quarterly, 39(3): 255-64, Spring 2000.

"Immigrant Children Mediators (ICM): Bridging the Literacy Gap in Immigrant Communities," The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 5: 85-94, 1999.

"Transformative Information Services: Uprooting Race Politics," Proceedings of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Conference, 19th-22nd July 1999, Las Vegas. (Forthcoming)

" Immigrant Children Mediators (ICM): Bridging the Literacy Gap in Immigrant Communities," Proceedings of the 65th General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 20-28^th August 1999, Bangkok, Thailand. Also published as a French translation Enfants immigrés et médiation: une façon de réduire le fossé linguistique pour les communautés immigrées.

"Literacy Practices of Linguistic Minorities: Sociolinguistic Issues and Implications for Library Services," Library Quarterly, 69(3): 339-359, July 1999.