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Institute Faculty and Speakers

Listed below are some of the institute instructors and speakers. Those for whom we have a bio have their names displayed against a light purple background. Click on a name to read the person's bio. Click on the name a second time to close the bio.

• Keynote speaker: Professor Ching-chih Chen 陈刘钦智Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Simmons College, Boston
  PI/Project Director, NSF/IDLP Global Memory Net
  PI/Project Director, World Heritage Memory Net In partnership with UNESCO/World Heritage Center

  • Ching-chih Chen is Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, and an outstanding consultant and speaker. She is the author/editor of more than thirty books and over 200 journal articles in the area of new information technologies, such as global digital libraries, multimedia technology, digital imaging, interactive videodisc technology, global information infrastructure, information management, and information resources. She produced the award winning interactive videodisc and multimedia CD,"The First Emperor of China," supported by the US National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and has led two major NSF/International Digital Library Projects (IDLP). Dr. Chen is also the co-PI, with Prof. Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, of the China-US Million Book Digital Library Project.
    
    A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she was appointed by President Clinton in February 1997 to serve as a member of the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). Between 1997 and 2002, she co-chaired the PITAC Subcommittee on International Issues, and was a member of the PITAC Subcommittees on Next Generation Internet (NGI) and IT*2 Initiative Review, and Panels on Digital Divide, Digital Library, Learning of the Future, and Individual Security. She also chaired the PITAC's activity on Digital Divide for Smaller Institutions. Dr. Chen is a recipient of many major awards, and was elected in 1985 as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She served as an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University in Beijing from August 1999 to 2002 and University of Hainan, China in 2004.
    
    A sought-after international speaker, Professor Chen has delivered keynote speeches and made presentations at many international conferences. She has been on the advisory board of the major China Digital Library Project of the National Library of China, served as a consultant to OCLC for its Global Digital Initiative (2005), and received the coveted LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award from the Library Information Technology Association in June 2006.



• Harry BruceDean & Professor, The Information School, University of Washington

  • Harry Bruce is the Dean of the Information School of the University of Washington. Before becoming Dean in January 2006, Dr. Bruce was Associate Dean for Research, a position he had held since 1999. He served as Program Chair of Ph.D. in Information Science from 2001 to 2004, helping to build the doctoral program during the start-up phase of this new degree. His research and scholarly activity focuses on the study of human information behavior and personal information management in networked information environments. This research is used to inform the development or enhancement of resources, services and technologies that facilitate information access and use. Dr. Bruce has received numerous prestigious grants for his research such as the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Washington State Library, and the Australian Department of Employment Education and Training. Dean Bruce received his Master of Librarianship (by research) in 1993 and PhD in 1996 from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Allyson Carlyle
Associate Professor, the Information School, University of Washington

• Chao-chen Chen 陳昭珍 Director, National Taiwan Normal University Library and
  Professor and Chairperson, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University Library, Taiwan

  • Chao-chen Chen is the Director of National Taiwan Normal University Library and Professor and Chair, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies at National Taiwan Normal University. Her specialty is in the areas of Digital Library and Digital Archives, Library Information Systems, Information Organization, and Chinese Rare Books. Previously, Professor Chen taught at the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, National Taiwan Normal University and the Department of Library and Information Science, Catholic Fu-Jen University. She also served in various library management positions, including Divisions of Reader Service, Training and Counseling, and Cataloging at Taiwan’s National Central Library, and also served as Head of Cataloging Department at the Library of National Taiwan University. Professor Chen received her PhD in Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University in 1994.

• Chuanfu Chen 陈传夫Professor and Dean of the School of Information Management and
  Director of Advanced Research Center for Intellectual Property, Wuhan University, China

  • Chuanfu Chen is a professor and Dean of the School of Information Management of Wuhan University with a joint appointment as Director of Advanced Research Center for Intellectual Property of Wuhan University, China. He teaches Intellectual Property Law, Library Science Research Methodology, and Legal Issues for Information Management. His research interests include Intellectual Property and Library, LIS Education, Digital Information Access. He was the principal investigator of the project Intellectual Property Issues on China National Information Infrastructure funded by Natural Science Foundation, Copyright Issues in Library funded by China Social Science Foundation, and EU Integrating Protection for Copyright Ten-Year Evaluation, EC Software and Database Legal Protection Policy funded by EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Program. He was a visiting Scholar at the East Asian Library of UC Berkeley (2006), Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Droit de l'Immatériel, Faculté Jean Monnet, Université de Paris Sud, France (1998), Law School of University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (1998), and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (1995-96). He is the author of Introduction to Copyright (1993), Informationization and Intellectual Property Law (2002) and more than fifty papers in the field of intellectual property, information access and information management. Professor Chen has an MA Degree in Library and Information Science and a PhD in law from Wuhan University.

• Jim ChengHead, International Relations & Pacific Studies Library and East Asian Collection, University of California, San Diego

  • Jim Cheng began as the head of the IR/PS Library and East Asian Collection at the University of California, San Diego, in 2002. Before coming to the UCSD, he held positions in the East Asian Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries, East Asian Library and the Law Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. At UCSD, Jim, working with the faculty and library staff, has led and organized a series of library out-reach projects, especially film and multi-media events, such as the "Korea, North and South, A Cinematic Perspective" 3-day Korean film symposium in 2008. Since 2003, Jim has been serving as the manager of University of California East Asian Digital Resources at San Diego Supercomputer Center and as UC Liaison for Chinese databases, such as Siku Quanshu (2003-2006), Sibu Congkan (2003-2006), and People’s Daily (2004- ). When Jim served as the first Chair of the University of California East Asian Bibliographers Group during 2005/6 he was instrumental in helping establish the UC East Asian Digital Resource Cost Sharing Model. In 2008, he was nominated by Library Journal as one of the Movers and Shakers in the category of Innovator. He received a BA in Chinese Language & Literature from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1982, an MA in Comparative Literature in 1989, and an MLS in 1996 from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Madeleine Yue Dong
Associate Professor, International Studies, University of Washington

• Diane B. Grover Electronic Resources Coordinator, Collection Management Services Division, University of Washington

  • Diane Grover has been the Electronic Resources Coordinator in the Collection Management Services Division at University of Washington Libraries since 2001. Prior to her current position, she served for seventeen years in various positions in the University Libraries’ Serials Division. In her current position, she coordinates evaluation and implementation of electronic resources, as well as maintenance and trouble-shooting. She is also responsible for most of the Libraries’ electronic resource license negotiation and management. Diane began her career at the University of Michigan Libraries in 1980 and was a Serials Librarian at the Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, from 1982 to 1984. In 2002, Diane served on a team from the University of Washington working with Innovative Interfaces as "development partners" to design and implement the Innovative Electronic Resources Management module. She continued to be very active in the development and beta processes and later served as a consultant to many libraries as they implemented their ERM modules. Diane served as an ARL Visiting Program Officer in 2006-2007, instructing workshop participants in "Mapping License Language to ERM Systems." She currently serves on the NISO License Expression Working Group and as a Steering Team member for the Orbis Cascade Alliance Electronic Resources Committee. Diane received her MA in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1980 and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1977.

• Nancy Huling Division Head for Reference and Research Services, University of Washington

  • Nancy Huling is the Division Head for Reference and Research Services in the University of Washington Libraries. Prior to joining the University of Washington Libraries in 1993, she was Head of Public Services at the University of California, Riverside. Nancy was instrumental in implementing digital reference services at the University of Washington Libraries, first through a cooperative arrangement with Cornell University and later with OCLC's QuestionPoint reference management system. She serves on the QuestionPoint 24/7 Advisory Board and on the QuestionPoint User's Council. Nancy has been actively involved in the American Library Association, and served as the president of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) in 2004.

• Timothy D. JewellDirector of Information Resources and Scholarly Communication, University of Washington

  • Tim Jewell became Director of Information Resources and Scholarly Communication with the University of Washington Libraries in March 2006, where he is responsible for providing leadership for selection, licensing, management and preservation of print and electronic resources. He has a long history of work with electronic resources, having been made Head of the Libraries' Electronic Information Program in 1992; he was given added responsibilities as Head of Collection Management Services in 1998. For the last several years Tim has coordinated the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative that has led to the development of systems many libraries now use for managing their electronic resources. He has a long-term interest in measurement issues related to electronic resources, and did work in that area as Visiting Program Officer for Electronic Resources with the Association of Research Libraries from 1996-1998. He is currently a member of National Information Standards Organization (NISO)'s SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) Steering Group, which aims to facilitate and automate the process of distributing and gathering COUNTER usage data. He has also been active over a number of years in such regional library consortia as the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Greater Western Library Alliance, and the Washington Cooperative Library Project. Tim holds an MLS (1974) from SUNY-Albany, and an MA in Sociology (1978) from the Pennsylvania State University. His undergraduate degree in Philosophy is from Manhattan College in New York.

• David R. Knechtges Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Washington

  • David R. Knechtges is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Washington. He also has taught at Yale, Wisconsin, and Harvard. He is the author of over 100 articles and nine books including Two Studies of the Han Fu (1968), The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C. – A.D.18) (1976), The Han shu Biography of Yang Xiong (1982), Wen-xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume One. Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals (1982), Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. Volume Two. Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunts, Travel, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas (1987), Wen xuan, Volume Three, Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music and Passions (1996), Editor and co-translator, Gong Kechang. Studies of the Han Fu (1997), Court Culture and Literature in Early China (2002), Co-editor, with Paul Kroll. Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History (2003), Co-editor, with Eugene Vance, Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture, East and West, 2005. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Ann M. LallyHead, Digital Initiatives Program, University of Washington, Libraries

  • Ann Lally is the Head of the Digital Initiatives program at the University of Washington Libraries where she is responsible for the coordination of digital-based projects throughout University of Washington Library system including the implementation of an institutional repository service. She supervises the department responsible for scanning and disseminating the materials scanned as part of the Between Liberation Space and Time of Need online collection. She has also consulted on issues with scanning Chinese and Tibetan language materials. Ann is also involved in the Libraries Digital Scholarship initiative activities which include new media documentation and access, and geo-spatial data visualization. She served as the Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona Management Information Systems Department for two and a half years; before that was the Architecture Librarian for the University of Arizona Library. She holds MA in Library and Information Science (University of Missouri) and an MA and BFA in the History of Art (University of Kansas).

• Hwa-wei Lee 李華偉Chief of Asian Division, the Library of Congress

  • Hwa-Wei Lee is Chief of the Asian Division at the Library of Congress (2003-2008) and Dean Emeritus of Ohio University Libraries. In the forty-eight years of his library career, mostly in the U.S., he worked in various library administrative positions at the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Asian Institute of Technology (in Bangkok, Thailand, 1968-1975, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Agency for International Development), Colorado State University, and Ohio University (1978-1999). He was also a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at OCLC from 2000 to 2002 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Department of Library and Information Science, Chiang Mai University in Thailand (September/October 2001). Dr. Lee has authored or co-authored 5 books and 80 papers. Since 1970 he has served as a library consultant and lecturer in many countries in the Asian Pacific areas. He was also a consulting or visiting professor at many leading universities in China and Taiwan. Among the many important awards he received are the 1983 Outstanding Administrator of Ohio University, the 1983 CALA’s Distinguished Services Award, the 1987 Ohio Librarian of the Year, the 1991 ALA John Ames Humphrey Award for contributions to International Librarianship, the 1991 APALA’s Distinguished Services Award, and the 1999 Ohio Hall of Fame Librarian. Upon his retirement in 1999, Ohio University named a new library building after him as the Hwa-Wei Lee Library Annex and the first floor of the main library as Hwa-Wei Lee Center for International Collections. Hwa-Wei Lee was born in China, did his undergraduate studies in Taiwan, and completed his MEd, MLS and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.

• Philip MelzerActing Chief, Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division, Library of Congress

  • Philip Melzer is Acting Chief of the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress. For many years he was a cataloger of Korean and Chinese material at the Library, and later a cataloging supervisor. Between 1998 and 2003 he coordinated the Library’s pinyin conversion project. He served as President of the Council on East Asian Libraries from 2006 to 2008, and in 2006 helped organize the IFLA preconference on Scholarly Information on East Asia in the 21st Century.

• Zhijia Shen 沈志佳Director of the East Asia Library, University of Washington Libraries

  • Zhijia Shen has been the director of the East Asia Library, University of Washington at Seattle since September 1, 2006. Previously, she was a tenured associate professor and Faculty Director of the East Asian Library at University of Colorado at Boulder (1992-2006). During that time, she took a 2-year leave of absence to serve as Head, East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh (2001-2003), where she also held an appointment of adjunct professor on the faculty of the Department of History. She is the immediate past Chair of the Committee on Chinese Materials and the Executive Board of the Council for East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, Associate Editor for the Journal of Library and Information Science co-published by Chinese American Librarians Assoication and the National Normal University of Taiwan, member of the Board of Directors of Chinese American Librarians Association, and the president-elect/vice president of Chinese American Librarians Association. Her research and publications have been in the area of East Asian librarianship, electronic resources for Chinese studies, and Chinese history. She has a PhD in History from the University of Chicago and an MS in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

• Margaret M. (Peg) WaltherInformation Resource Officer, Foreign Service, US Department of State

  • Peg Walther joined the Foreign Service as an Information Resource Officer in the US Department of State in 2003. She is currently posted in Beijing, working with the public Information Resource Centers (IRCs) in greater China and Mongolia. In her previous assignment, she served Embassy IRCs in11 countries in Northern Europe, from Reykjavik to Helsinki. Prior to joining the Department of State, Ms. Walther was the Dean of Library Services for City University, during which time the library grew from a room of donated books to a major resource, including three branch campus libraries in Washington and one in Trencin, Slovakia. In addition to being a university librarian, she managed the Mill Creek public library branch of the Sno-Isle Regional Library System for 2 years. Her professional activities include participation in the steering committee for initiating state-wide contracts for periodical databases for all types of libraries in Washington, Chairman of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Society for Information Science, and committee membership in the Distance Education section of the American Library Association. Ms. Walther’s undergraduate degree is in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Colorado. She holds a Masters of Librarianship, as well as a Masters in International Studies, from the University of Washington in Seattle.

• Jennifer L. Ward Head, Web Services, Libraries, Information Technology Services University of Washington

  • Jennifer Ward is Head of Web Services at the University of Washington Libraries, where she is responsible for general oversight of the Libraries' Web presence. Ms. Ward manages the Services Group within the Information Technology Services department as well as the Libraries' human factors/usability program. Prior to her start at the University of Washington in 2000, she was a Visiting Research Programmer at the University of Illinois Library in 1999 and a Slavic Languages Cataloger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1995-1998. She received her MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and her Bachelor of Arts in Russian Literature and Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the 2008 recipient of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Leadership Award and is a graduate of the Frye Leadership Institute.

• Lizabeth A. WilsonDean of University Libraries, Administration, University of Washington

  • Betsy Wilson has been the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington since 2001. Prior to being selected Dean she had been the Associate Director of Libraries for Research and Instructional Services since 1992. Previously, she was Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries, including member of ALA Council and ACRL President. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of OCLC since 2000, chairing the Board since 2004. She is a member of the Association of Research Libraries Board and of the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance and a past member of the Executive Committee of the Orbis Cascade Alliance. She presents and publishes widely on the topics of teaching and learning in libraries; assessment and evaluation; digital libraries; and collaboration. She is the recipient of the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, the Margaret E. Monroe Award, the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. With her UWired colleagues, she received the inaugural EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. Her library was selected as the 2004 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award recipient. She holds an MLS from University of Illinois and a BA from Northwestern University.

• Eugene W. Wu 吳文津Librarian Emeritus, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University

  • Eugene Wu was Librarian at Harvard-Yenching Library from 1965 to 1997. Before that he was at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution where he began as Chinese Cataloger. He later became Assistant Curator of the Chinese Collection, then Curator of the Chinese Collection and later Curator of the East Asian Collection. He was Founding Chair of the OCLC CJK Users Group (1991-1993). He served as President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Chinese Research Materials, Inc.; as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Mary Elizabeth Wood Foundation; and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (North America) among many other appointments. He is the author of a world-wide survey of the availability of research materials for the study of contemporary China, which was commissioned by the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. The survey led to the founding of the Center for Chinese Research Materials (CCRM) under the auspices of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in 1968, funded by the Ford Foundation. Among his many other publishing endeavors, he co-authored Contemporary China: A Research Guide with Peter Berton, and was the editor from 1966 to 1996 of The Cultural Revolution: A Bibliography. Eugene Wu attended National Central University in Chongqing, as well as doing PhD work at Stanford University. He received a BA in history and BLS from the University of Washington.

• Long Xiao 肖珑Professor & Deputy Director, Peking University Library
  Deputy Director, CALIS National Information Center in Science, Social Science and Humanities, Beijing University Library

  • Long Xiao is the Deputy Director of Peking University Library. She also serves as the Executive supervisor of China Academic Social Science and Humanities Library, Deputy Director of CALIS National Information Center in Science and Social Science, as adjunct professor in the School of Public Administrations in Sichuan University, and as vice president and standing member of the Council of Chinese Information Society of Social Sciences. Professor Xiao visited the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University as a Fulbright senior research scholar in 1997-1998 and served as a visiting scholar at the University of Oregon in 1988. Professor Xiao’s teaching and research focuses on digital collection development, digital library standards and criteria, and information services. Currently she is responsible for important projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology, among others. Besides giving presentations at more than twenty international conferences, she has published four books, including Retrieval and Applications of Digital Information Resources and Chinese Metadata: Theory and Applied Cases, as well as more than thirty papers in Chinese and English. Professor Xiao graduated from the Department of Library and Information Science at Peking University in 1986.

• Anand A. YangDirector and Golub Chair, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington

  • Anand A. Yang is Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Golub Chair of International Studies. Yang received his BA from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. His publications include: two books, The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India and Bazaar India: Peasants, Traders, Markets and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar; numerous articles in journals in Asian Studies, History, and the Social Sciences; an edited volume titled Crime and Criminality in British India. His most recent publication is a co-edited work: Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (2005). Currently, he is working on Chinese and South Asian labor migrations, especially in Southeast Asia. A former editor of "The Journal of Asian Studies and Peasant Studies," Yang is a member of several national and regional boards, including of the American Council of Learned Societies, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and the World Affairs Council of Seattle/Tacoma. In 2006-7, he was the president of the Association for Asian Studies; in 2008 he will begin a two-year term as the president of the World History Association. Prior to joining the University of Washington in 2002, Yang taught at the University of Utah and Sweet Briar College.

• Kuang-tien Yao 姚張光天China Specialist Librarian, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa

  • Kuang-tien Yao is the China Specialist Librarian working at the Asia Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Before joining the University of Hawaii, she worked at other academic institutions, including Brown University, Mount Holyoke College, and St. Louis University. From those prior positions, she gained a wide range of valuable experience in circulation, reference services, interlibrary loan, acquisition and serials operations, and in staff training and supervision. Ten years ago, she began her library career at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working first as an Interlibrary Loan Librarian in the External Services Department, then as the Chinese Cataloging Librarian, and now in the Asia Collection as the China Specialist Librarian. During her tenure as a Chinese Cataloging Librarian, she was appointed by University of Hawaii Library at Manoa to serve as a representative of the UH Voyager System on the Unicode^TM Task Force Committee for the second phase of Voyager’s implementation of Unicode^TM. She also serves as one of the seven members on the CEAL’s Committee on Chinese Materials (2005 to 2008).

• Yuan ZhouCurator, East Asian Library, University of Chicago

  • Yuan Zhou is the Curator of the East Asian Library, University of Chicago. He has published articles on various topics in Library and Information Science including collection development, applications of information technology, library history, and the development of East Asian libraries. He also does research on China’s Cultural Revolution. He co-authored The Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (The Scarecrow Press, 2006). He is also the compiler and editor of A New Collection of Red Guard Publications: Part I (20 volumes, 1999), and a co-compiler and co-editor of "Chinese Cultural Revolution Database" (1st edition 2002, 2nd and enlarged edition 2006, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press). He has a BA from Peking University, China, and a MA as well as a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Last modified: Friday July 18 2008