Journal of East Asian Libraries

Volume 1980 Number 62 Article 6

6-1-1980

Librarians

Elaine Kemp

Luc Kwanten

Mark Tam

Effie. Y H. Chen

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KANC-I SUN CHANG has been appointed Curator, Cest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections, Princeton University. Mrs. Chang will begin af Curator on July 1st. In addition to an M.L.S. degree from Rutgers, she has an M.A. in English Literature from South Dakota State University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Princeton. She comes to us from a position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Chinese, Department of German and Russian, Tufts University, where she taught and was in charge of all administrative work in the Chinese Program. Her book, The Evolution of Chinese Tz'u Poetry: From Late T'ang to Northern Sung is soon to be published by Princeton University Press. In addition, she has written numerous articles and made several presentations at con­ ferences .

(From Princeton University Library Bullet in, May 20, 1980)

WARREN J. HAAS, President of the Council on Library Resources, and RUTHERFORD ROGERS, Yale University Librarian, conducted a series of work­ shops for Chinese librarians in and during late March and April. This project was undertaken at the invitation of the U.S. Inter­ national Communication Agency and the Chinese Society of Librarians. Approximately three hundred university, college and provincial (public) librarians attended from every province of except Western Tibet. The group was divided approximately equally between Beijing and Shanghai. The format of each series was essentially the same: lectures by the American "experts" in the morning to a plenary session, followed by afternoon seminars with each''expert'' responding to questions from a smaller group of thirty to forty librarians. Donald Hausrath, ICA Regional Li­ brarian for the Far East, and Alice Lage of ICA-Tokyo, assisted with the seminars. Subjects covered included a brief history of American library development, networking, management, building planning, staff development, collection development, education of librarians, computer applications, and collection security.

The experts were also scheduled for a series of visits to Chinese libraries in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangchow. There were multiple visits to the National Library and the Library of the University of Beijing, as well as major tours of the Academy of Sciences Library, Shanghai Normal University Library, Library of the Communications (or Transportation) University, Shanghai Public, the rare book collection of the Hangchow Provincial Library and the Technical University located in Hangchow.

The Chinese librarians were eager to learn, demonstrated a charming sense of humor, propounded searching questions on almost every subject, and were candid about the ground lost during their Cultural Revolution. They were very conscious of the need to modernize not only their libraries, but the

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(From Yale University Library Staff News. May 1980)

JANE YEN-CHENG HSU will retire June 30, 1980, from her position as Senior Catalog Librarian; Bibliographer, Orlentalia Collection at the University of Oregon Library. Mrs. Hsu Joined the Library staff as a general cata- loger, October 1. 1956. In 1964 the University's Institute of International Studies and Overseas Administration received a major grant from the Ford Foundation which gave impetus to the establishment of the Orlentalia Collection in the Library. Quite naturally Mrs. Hsu was asked to develop and maintain the new collection. For the past sixteen years her major' responsibilities have been for the acquisition and cataloging of Chinese language materials and provision of reference service to faculty and students. Through her service on the Interdisciplinary faculty Asian Studies Committee. Mrs. Hsu has contributed substantially to the development of the Orlentalia Collection which now contains some 32,000 volumes.

Mrs. Hsu was bom in Tsingpu in Kiangsu Province, China. She earned her certificate in 1940 from the Boone Library School, Wuchang, which was temporarily relocated in Chungking, and her bachelor's degree in 1946 from Clnllng Girls' College, Nanking, whloh was relocated to Chengtu. Mrs. Hsu worked as librarian in the Clnllng Girls' College from 1940-1946 and then as chief cataloger at the library of Cheeloo University in Shantung, 1947-1948. From 1951-1956 Mrs. Hsu was chief cataloger of the U.S. Infor­ mation Service Library in Hong Kong. Her family came to the United States in September 1956.

During her nearly twenty-four years at the University of Oregon Library, Mrs. Hsu has been an indiapenslble member of the Library faculty. We value greatly her contributions to our Library and University and wish both Mr. and Mrs. Hsu the happiest of retirement years.

(Elaine Kemp)

KIKUKO KOMAI has been promoted to Japanese Cataloger at the Far Eastern Library, , effective December 1, 1979. She was Processing Assistant from 1975 until her new appointment. A graduate of Kyoto Women's University, Ms. Komal had worked as library assistant at both the Kyoto Women's University Library and the Library of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

(Luc Kwanten)

- 36 - JULIA TUHC, Blbliographer-Cataloger of the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution, completed the compilation of a bibliographic guide to Chinese government serials held at the Institution in early 1979. The bibliography contains 527 titles which are arranged by computer. It was published in December under the title of Bibliography of Chinese Government Serials, 1880- 1949.

(Mark Tarn)

CHE-FU WU was appointed on March 1, 1980 as the Chinese Bibliographical Specialist of the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections, Princeton University, for a period of four months. (Due to his father's sudden death, however, he left for --his home town--in early April and is expected to return to Princeton in the fir6t part of June.)

As Professor Peter Ch'ang's successor, Mr. Wu continues to play an im­ portant part in the Recataloguing Project funded by the U.S. Office of Education'6 Title II-C grant. His major task is to prepare the biblio­ graphical annotations for the pre-raodern Chinese works in the original Cest Collection.

Currently, Mr. Wu is on leave from the National Palace Museum in Taipei, where he has served for many years as the Associate Curator of the Department of Books and Documents, in charge of Rare Books Section. In the course of his association with the Museum, he has also taught, on a part-time basis, in the following two institutions: The College of Chinese Culture and the Soochow University.

(Effie Y. H. Chen)

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