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Journal of East Asian Libraries Volume 2008 Number 146 Article 18 10-1-2008 No. 146 Journal of East Asian Libraries Journal of East Asian Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Libraries, Journal of East Asian (2008) "No. 146 Journal of East Asian Libraries," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 2008 : No. 146 , Article 18. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2008/iss146/18 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of East Asian Libraries by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. JOURNAL 圖書 OF 图书 EAST 図書 ASIAN 도서 LIBRARIES No. 146 October 2008 Council on East Asian Libraries The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. ISSN 1087-5093 COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN LIBRARIES (CEAL) Association for Asian Studies, Inc. President Kristina Kade Troost (Duke University) 2008-2010 Vice-President/President-Elect Joy Kim (University of Southern California) 2008-2010 Past President Phil Melzer (Library of Congress) 2008-2009 Secretary Ellen McGill 2006-2009 Treasurer Toshie Marra (University of California, Los Angeles) 2006-2009 Executive Board Members at Large Su Chen (University of Minnesota) 2007-2010 Yunah Sung (University of Michigan) 2007-2010 Kuniko Yamada McVey (Harvard University) 2006-2009 Hong Xu (University of Pittsburgh) 2006-2009 Cathy Chiu (University of California, Santa Barbara) 2008-2011 Yasuko Makino (Princeton University) 2008-2011 Committee Chairpersons Chinese Materials: Kuang-tien (K.T.) Yao (University of Hawaii at Manoa) 2008-2011 Japanese Materials: Haruko Nakamura (Yale University) 2008-2011 Korean Materials: Hana Kim (University ofToronto) 2008-2011 Library Technology: Rob Britt (University of Washington Law Library) 2008-2011 Membership: Jade Atwill (Pennsylvania State University) 2007-2010 Public Services: Eiko Sakaguchi (University of Maryland, College Park) 2008-2011 Statistics: Vickie Fu Doll (University of Kansas) 2007-2010 Technical Processing: Sarah Elman (Columbia University) 2008-2011 ******** The Journal of East Asian Libraries is published three times a year by the Council on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. Subscriptions to the Journal of East Asian Libraries are $30.00 per year for individuals and $45.00 per year for institutions. Please make checks or money orders out to the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. and send to: The Council on East Asian Libraries, c/o Toshie Marra, Richard C. 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The digital archive of the Journal of East Asian Libraries is found on the BYU Scholarly Periodicals Center website http://spc.byu.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS Number 146 October 2008 From the Editor i Articles Lily Kecskes A Scholar Diplomat‘s Legacy : William Woodville Rockhill and his Chinese Language Books at the Freer Gallery of Art Library 1 Mei-Yun (Annie) Lin Faculty Can Help Students to Learn by Partnering with Librarians 28 Jianye He Bridging the East and the West: A Case Study of Name Authority Control in Resource Sharing and Overseas Chinese Librarians’ Role 32 Allison Leaming, Ann Dutton Ewbank, Qian Liu, and Ralph Gabbard Sichuan, China and Confucius in Arizona: Promoting Global Understanding through a Library Exhibition 44 East Asian Library Pioneers: A Continuing Series My Work with Joseph Needham Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Translated by Diana Chen 49 Research Methodology on the History of Books in China: An Interview with Professor T. H. Tsien Chang Pao-san Translated by Zhijia Shen 54 Reports Sachie Noguchi Tenri Workshop Year 2: A Report 66 North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources NCC Open Meeting Summary 69 NCC August 2008 Meeting 75 Korean Collections Consortium 82 New Appointments 93 Book Reviews 95 ATSUHIKO WADA. Shomotsu no Nichibei kankei – Riterashi shi ni ukete [The Japan-US Relationship viewed from book circulation: toward a literacy history]. Tokyo: Shinyosha, 2007. Tsuneharu Gonnami Indexes 99 Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 146, October 2008 From the Editor Some years ago I invited a number of librarians to write down memories of their years in East Asian libraries for publication in the Journal. Some responded, and their memoirs have been published in issues since then as the continuing series East Asian Library Pioneers. We have all enjoyed reading about their education, careers, and views of the growth of East Asian librarianship from the inside. Through reading the stories of their lives we’ve come to know about many events and happenings in the world of East Asian librarianship that would otherwise have been unknown to us, and to understand better earlier years of East Asian librarianship in the U.S., the challenges they faced, and ways they met those challenges. The stories are fascinating and a great treasure, a legacy and gift to all of us from those who took the time to write them. We are fortunate to have in this issue two memoirs by Dr. T. H. Tsien, eminent Chinese librarian and scholar. In the first of these memoirs Dr. Tsien writes about his association with Joseph Needham, with whom he collaborated on the volume on printing in Science and Civilisation in China. Dr. Tsien discusses how he first became acquainted with Joseph Needham and shares stories of their association over the years. Many of Dr. Tsien’s stories about Needham do not appear in the recent biography of Joseph Needham by Simon Winchester, The Man who Loved China (HarperCollins, 2008). In a second memoir, an interview conducted in Chinese and translated into English, Dr. Tsien relates his education, early experience as a librarian in China, and career as professor and Curator of the Far Eastern Library at the University of Chicago. In the interview he also speaks of his research and writing methods and of the importance of bibliography to chronicling the scholarly production of a field and providing a foundation for new research. Such memoirs as these, and the others that have appeared in the Journal in past issues, are fascinating stories of East Asian librarians, each of them unique, each of them remarkable in particular, individual ways. These stories of dedicated work and achievements need to be remembered. They enrich our experience and understanding and help document the history and development of our profession. But not all of the lives of East Asian pioneers are being written down and shared. Too many retire without leaving behind them a written record of their career and experiences. We are all the poorer for losing this legacy. I hope that we can all work together to save these memories. Please, as you near retirement, write down your years as an East Asian librarian. The writing need not be polished; the memories are what counts. If you know of a now-retired East Asian librarian who because of health or other difficulties of age or circumstance cannot write his or her own memoirs, please consider taking on the task of interviewing that librarian. Or translate them into English, as two of our colleagues did for the memoirs in this issue. This is work we all should share. These lives need to be recorded. So much will be lost if they are not. Gail King Editor, Journal of East Asian Libraries i INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS The Journal of East Asian Libraries invites submission of articles, reports, bibliographies, book reviews, and institutional and member news items. Contributions should be in either WordPerfect or Microsoft Word and may be submitted by email attachment or as an email message. Send them to the JEAL Editor, Gail King, at gail [email protected]. Please use no special formatting. Notes should be gathered at the end, and documentation should follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Deadlines for submissions are February issue: December 31 June issue: April 30 October issue: August 31 When you submit your contribution, please also send a signed copy of the JEAL Publication Agreement, available at http://www.lib.byu.edu/spc/jeal/PublicationAgreement.pdf, to allow for subsequent electronic publication in the JEAL archive found at http://www.lib.byu.edu/spc/jeal/index.html. Mail the signed agreement to Gail King. Editor Journal of East Asian Libraries 4523 HBLL Brigham Young University Phone: 801 422-4061 Provo, Utah 84602 E-mail: gail [email protected] ii Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 146, October 2008 A SCHOLAR DIPLOMAT‘S LEGACY: WILLIAM WOODVILLE ROCKHILL AND HIS CHINESE LANGUAGE BOOKS AT THE FREER GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY Lily Kecskes The donation of the Chinese library of William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914) was first mentioned eighty years ago in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1928, according to which a total of 1,100 volumes from the late scholar diplomat’s library was presented by Mrs. Rockhill, his widow, to the Smithsonian Institution in the autumn of 1927 and was deposited in the Freer Gallery of Art.1 As described in the report, the Rockhill books ranged, in date of publication, from 1659 to 1913 and covered a wide range of subjects, including religion, history, geography, literature, and culture of Central Asia, Tibet and Mongolia. Highlighted in the report were “a number of rare items, several in manuscripts, and various works of general reference, among which was a copy of the Palace Edition of the Imperial Dictionary issued in 1716.”2 The gift by Mrs. Rockhill was significant at the time and is still important now, especially for the library of the Freer Gallery of Art.