Journal of East Asian Libraries Volume 1977 Number 54 Article 3 11-1-1977 Librarians Eugene Wu Weiying Wan Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Thomas C. T. Kuo Key Paik Yang See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Wu, Eugene; Wan, Weiying; Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin; Kuo, Thomas C. T.; Yang, Key Paik; De-Benko, Eugene; and Moffitt, Emiko Mashiko (1977) "Librarians," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 1977 : No. 54, Article 3. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol1977/iss54/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the All 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 scholarsarchive@byu.edu, ellen_amatangelo@byu.edu.
Librarians Authors Eugene Wu, Weiying Wan, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Thomas C. T. Kuo, Key Paik Yang, Eugene De-Benko, and Emiko Mashiko Moffitt This article is available in Journal of East Asian Libraries: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol1977/iss54/3
LIBRARIANS JAMES K. M. CHENG has been appointed Bibliographer for Special Projects at the Far Eastern Library, University of Chicago, succeeding Mr. David Tsai, who has accepted the position of Curator of the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collection at Princeton University. Mr. Cheng received his B. A. degree with honors in 1970 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MSLS in 1971 from the University of Kentucky. He worked as Assistant Librarian in a law library in San Francisco in 1972, and joined the Far Eastern Library at Chicago as a part-time Chinese Cataloger in 1972-73. In 1973-75 he served as Bibliographer of the Center for Chinese Research Materials of the Association of Research Libraries at Washington, D. C. He returned to Chicago in 1975 to continue his studies and is at present a Ph. D. candidate in Far Eastern Librarianship at the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, working towards a dissertation on Chinese learned societies and their publications between 1895 and 1949. (T. H. Tsien) MARGARET FUNG was appointed earlier this year as Director of the National Taiwan Normal University Library in Taipei. Mrs. Fung is a graduate of the National Taiwan University, and holds a M. S. in Librarianship from Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was on the faculty of the Department of Library Science at the National Taiwan University prior to her present appointment. She also served on the staff of St. John's University Library in New York and the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University in Cambridge. (Eugene Wu) GENE CH'ING-SUNG HSIAO, University of Arizona Library, transferred from the Oriental Studies Collection to the Catalog Department in July, 1977. He is now responsible for the processing of Chinese and Japanese materials and Western language materials on China and Japan. (Thomas C. Kuo) KIM CHONG-HO, the National Assembly Librarian, has been recently elected as the new President of the Korean Library Association. (Key P. Yang) -15-
MINORU KISHIDA was appointed Librarian of the National Diet (Parliament) Library, Tokyo, on October 11, 1977, succeeding Sadataka Miyasaka. He is the sixth Librarian to serve in the Cabinet-level post since the establishment of Japan's national library in 1948. A graduate of Tokyo Imperial University, Mr. Kishida began in 1934 his long civil service career with the Secretariat General of the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the National Diet. He became Deputy Secretary General in 1965, and rose to the Secretary Generalship in 1972, which post he held until his latest appointment as Librarian of the National Diet Library. He is co-author of Bunkazai hogoho shosetsu [The Cultural Properties Protection Act Annotated] published in 1950. Mr. Miyasaka, after retiring from long government service, now resides in Fujisawa-city, near Tokyo. ANDREW KURODA, Field Director of the Library of Congress Office in Tokyo, attended the 1977 Annual Conference of the Japan Library Association held in Osaka and Kyoto from September 28-30. at the opening ceremony Mr. Kuroda read a congratulatory message to the Conference from Mr. Eric Moon, President of the American Library Association. ALLAN M. PAUL, Senior Cataloger of the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution, retired at the end of August after twenty-six years of dedicated service in the Japanese Collection. Born in Milwaukee, he was educated at Marquette University and the University of Michigan. He worked at the Milwaukee Public Library before joining the Army in 1944. After completion of training at the Military Intelligence Service Language Schools at the University of Michigan and Fort Snelling, Minnesota, he served as a language officer in Japan. Upon his discharge from the Army, he remained in Japan for another two years as a Department of the Army civilian with the Civilian Censorship Detachment. After receiving his MLS degree from the University of Michigan, he arrived on the Stanford campus in September, 1951, to become a cataloger of Japanese books. In the ensuing twenty-six years, he saw the Japanese Collection grow from an unorganized small collection, a large part of which was stored in boxes, into one of the major collections in this country. Over the years, he has served as cataloger, acting curator, and senior cataloger in charge and played a vital role in upholding the excellence of the Japanese catalog. He also gave strong support to the cooperative cataloging project of the 1950's. His scrupulous attention to every need of library users and his knowledge and expertise in the cataloging of Japanese books are qualities to be remembered and emulated for generations to come. (Emiko M. Moffitt) -16-
SON HUI-SIK was appointed the 17th Librarian of the Central National Library, Seoul, effective May 16, 1977. (Key P. Yang) DAVID TS'AI has been appointed Curator of the Gest Oriental Library and the East Asian Collections of Princeton University, succeeding Mr. James S. K. Tung. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Ts'ai served as an Assistant Librarian at Cornell University Libraries from 1966 to 1970, and as Bibliographer for Special Projects at the Far Eastern Library of the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1977. He holds a M. S. degree from the Florida State University Graduate Library School and a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. He is currently a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Chicago. CHI WANG, Head, Chinese and Korean Section, Orientalia Division, Library of Congress, visited the People's Republic of China in August, 1977. During his three-week trip, his itinerary took him to major libraries in various cities including the National Library of Peking, the Library of the Academia Sinica in Peking, the Library of the People's Daily in Peking, Peking University Library, Liao-ning University Library in Shen-yang, Shanghai Library, and the Library of the Shanghai Normal University. In addition to these libraries, he also paid visits to a number of bookstores in these cities. TAKAHARU YAMAKAWA has joined the staff of the Asia Library, the University of Michigan, as cataloging librarian for Japanese materials. Mr. Yamakawa was graduated from Aichi University of Education, Southern Illinois University (M. A. in Linguistics), and the University of Chicago (M. A. in Library Science). Before coming to Michigan, Mr. Yamakawa had also worked for the Oriental Collection of the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Far Eastern Library, the University of Chicago. (Weiying Wan) WILLIAM F. DORRILL, Director of the Asian Studies Program and Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh, resigned from the above positions in August, 1977, and has since assumed the deanship of the College of Arts and Sciences of the Ohio State University at Athens. Professor Dorrill was for a number of years a stong supporter of the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh and the East Asian library community at large. He has, since 1975, been a member of the Executive Group of the Committee on East Asian Libraries as a faculty representative for its China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. He joined Mrs. Nora E. -17-
Rossell, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Libraries in supporting the publication of the CEAL Newsletter at Pittsburgh when Dr. Thomas C. Kuo was chairman of the Committee on East Asian Libraries and Editor of the CEAL Newsletter, from 1974 to 1976. Professor Dorrill's departure from the University of Pittsburgh is a great loss to the East Asian library community in general, and to the East Asian Library of the University of Pennsylvania in particular. (Thomas C. Kuo) SHAO-CHANG LEE, a pioneer in Asian Studies, and Professor Emeritus and former head of the Department of Foreign Studies at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, died on August 10, 1977, at the age of 86. Professor Lee, a Cantonese, came to the United States under the auspices of the Boxer Indemnity Fund Scholarship in 1914 and earned a Bachelor's degree from Yale University and a Master's degree from Columbia University. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Bates College in Lewis ton, Maine. Professor Lee was Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at the University of Hawaii from 1922 until 1943, when he came to Michigan State University. He was well remembered at Hawaii not only for his promotional efforts on behalf of Asian Studies but also for the start of the Chinese Collection to which he personally donated a sizeable number of books. At Michigan State he helped develop the International Center and, for a number of years, served as advisor to foreign students. He gave to the University a collection of his valuable books and art objects, among which were a set of the Erh Shih Ssu Shih [History of Twenty-four Dynasties] of early Ch'ing's edition and a set of the Shih San Ching Chu Su [The Thirteen Classics and Commentaries] of the block-cut edition. For his contribution in Asian Studies, the Association for Asian Studies conferred on him a merit certificate in 1963. For his service and contribution, Michigan State University presented him in 1967 the "Honorary Alumnus" award. His colleagues and friends have also established a scholarship fund in his honor in both the University of Hawaii and Michigan State University. (Eugene debenko) DAVID G. CHIBBETT, Assistant Keeper for Japanese Studies, Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library, died suddenly on November 5, 1977. Formerly in charge of Japanese-language holdings in the. SOAS Library, University of London, Mr. Chibbett was the author of articles on library affairs relating to Japanese collection in the U. K. and was co-author of A Descriptive Catalogue of Pre-1968 Japanese Books, Manuscripts, and Prints in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published in 1975 by the Oxford University Press. -18-
PE-KUANG TSENG has been appointed Chinese Area Specialist and Assistant Head of the Chinese and Korean Section of Orientalia Division, Library of Congress. Mr. Tseng joined the LC staff in 1955 as a member of the Chinese Section, and for the past ten years has been responsible for the development of the Chinese Union Catalog maintained at the Orientalia Division. -19-