Allan Cho
allan.cho@ubc.ca
Community Engagement and Partnerships Librarian
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
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Phone: (604) 827-4366
Fax: (604) 822-3242
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Allan Cho

Publications & presentations:

Vong, Silvia, Elaina Norlin, and Allan Cho. Reframing Organizational Practices through a Justice Lens: A Study on the Experiences of Racialized Librarians in Academic Libraries. College & Research Libraries 86, no. 5 (2025): 728-753. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.86.5.728

Cho, Allan, and Lisabelle Tan. Championing Change: The EDI Scholars-in-Residence Program at UBC Library. Journal of Creative Library Practice. October 21, 2024.

Li, Yanli, Maha Kumaran, Allan Cho, Valentina Ly, Suzanne Fernando, and Michael David Miller. Reiterating Visibility: Canadian Librarians’ Experiences of Racial Microaggressions via Findings from a Minority Librarians Network Redux Survey. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 7, no. 3/4 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.40376

Vong, Silvia, Allan Cho, and Elaina Norlin. (2023). The five labours of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work by racialized academic librarians. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), vol. 7, no. 3/4. (2023): 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41002

Cho, Allan, Afra Bolefski, Cecilia Tellis, Lei Jin, and Maha Kumaran. Designing the Diversity of Canadian Libraries: Excerpts from the CARL Inclusion Perspectives Webinar by Racialized Library Colleagues. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 17, no. 2. (2022):1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v17i2.6799

Li, Yanli, Maha Kumaran, Allan Cho, Valentina Ly, Suzanne Fernando, and Michael David Miller. Changes in the Library Landscape Regarding Visible Minority Librarians in Canada. Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice. vol. 17, no. 4. (2022): 36–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30151

Cho, Allan, & Sarah Zhang. “A Legacy of Race and Data: Mining the History of Exclusion."

Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities. Eds. Sarah Roger and Paul Barrett. University of Ottawa Press, 2022.

Zhang, Sarah, and Allan Cho. “Untapped Potential Mining Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada, 1886-1949 Using R and Palladio”. OSF Preprints, June 12, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/xg5nj

Cho, Allan, and Megan Meredith-Lobay. "Guest Editorial: From Humanities Computing to the Digital Humanities: a Literature Review." Digital Library Perspectives. (2018): 154-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-08-2018-048

Lo, Patrick, Dickson Chiu, Allan Cho, and Brad Allard. Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors: International Perspectives on Library Management. Chandos Publishing, 2018.

Cho, Allan, Lo, Patrick, and Dickson KW Chiu. Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections: One Belt, One Road, and Beyond. Chandos Publishing, 2017.

Liu, Jing, Allan Cho, and Phoebe Chow. "The Seto Collection in the UBC Asian Library: Its Usefulness to Scholars and Students." Journal of East Asian Libraries. no. 163 (2016): 6.

Li, Yu Lilly, and Allan Cho. "Chinese Character Metadata: the Key to Ensure Consistency for Cataloguing and Discoverability of Chinese–language Materials." International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 10, no. 1 (2015): 28-36. DOI: 10.1504/ijmso.2015.068260

Cho, Allan. "Collaboration as Outreach in the 21st Century Academic Library.” Bringing the Arts into the Library. Ed. Carol Smallwood. Chicago: American Library Association. (2014): 175-186.

Cho, Allan. "Diversity Pathways in Librarianship." Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, (2014): 89-102.

Cho, Allan. "YouTube and academic libraries: Building a digital collection." Journal of electronic resources librarianship 25, no. 1 (2013): 39-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2013.761521

Cho, Allan, and Ada Con. "Partnerships Linking Cultures." Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use (2012): 37.

Cho, Allan. "Bringing History to the Library: University-Community Engagement in the Academic Library." Computers in Libraries 31, no. 4 (2011): 15-18.

Cho, Allan, and Yu Li. "Libraries in a digital frontier: preserving Chinese Canadian cultural heritage." In International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, pp. 35-38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

Cho, Allan, and Dean Giustini. "Web 3.0 and health librarians: what does the future hold?." Using Web 2.0 for Health Information (2011): 141.

Cho, Allan, Ann Doyle, Dean Giustini, Kim Lawson, Teresa Lee, Jo-Anne Naslund, May Yan-Mountain, and Eleanor Yuen. "Dimensions of Responsive Multicultural Library Services at the University of British Columbia: Successes and Challenges. IFLA Multicultural Conference Proceedings." IFLA Multicultural Conference Proceedings. (2009): 1-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0041739.

Barsky, Eugene, and Allan Cho. "Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians." Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 28, no. 2 (2007): 59-61.


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