No. 007 Newsletter - Association for Asian Studies. Committee on American Library Resources in the Far East

              U x 0 0 K COMOTEE ON AMICAN LIEHARY APT gat OF vmwas8001ationim asian8tudies l9cemb9r211964 decombor211964 1 f i i edwin G beal jr 00 co oo Orienta oriontalia orientaiia orientalia Orion orlon talia talla taila Iia lia lla division mvisi&l chairman library of congress r washington DC D C 2050 nous Nows neus newsletter letter jetter letten nqi nai no 7 1 I survey of present status and personnel needs of far eastern collections in america iam lam lan I 1 am transmitting to you herewith for study and discussion cus sion a survey made by our colleague dp dr T H tsien this study was made during the past sumeer summer stamer stamen and represents conditions as of june 30 1964 insofar as information could be obtained I 1 requested 0 that the survey be sent to me in september since I 1 1 understood that the associationsboard associations board of directors was meeting on septembers september1 september 1 1819 18 19 the meeting however was actually held on october 3031 30 31 before that date xeroxcoies xerox coples copies of the entire survey had bad been sent to president arthur wright and board liaison member knight biggerstaff and copies of the text without the tables and appendices had been boon baon sent dent to all an ail ali members of the associations advisory committee on researchand Rese research archand and development the doardt board I 1 am informed considered cgnsideredthe the matter with sympathy and interest and agreed that some program along ung these lines sho should uld be undertaken the board pointed out however that no institution had yet offered to accept responsibility for sponsor sponsoring ig and conducting the program and that no list of instruators instructors and lecturers hadyet hadnet had bad yet been dram drawn up it also wondered whether theprogram the program as statedhere stated state dhere here hene was sufficiently intensive its main question however was where and under whose auspices the program would be conducted with these comments u6survey the survey is presented ispresented for your consideration some parts of it such as themist theiist theI thea the thai list ist lat kat of ofstudents students mithfar with far eastern Backup backum background und enrolled in american library schools 196 1964 41t 4 should be of immediate value to tolibrarie libraries s which are attempting to fill positions which are now open iha tha the rhe main text of the sunvey survey sutvey will also be interesting especially to libraries which have worked on these problems 4 the proposed programsfor Programs for special training trainingtt tt are more in the nature of a Iv orking working ivorking paper for discussion I 1 propose that at the CALRFE meeting in san francisco next spring saturday april 3 1964ve 1965 w go over the whole report in detail probably line by line and see what wbat whet rhet abat contributions we me canmake canmaker can make to it this should occupy us for at 1 least easa easf a full halfday half day 1 I assume that before that time timed tine tined you will all have read it and I 1 request you to bring your copies with yo you U 3 I 1 shall also be glad to circulate for the committees coiimittoe d consideration any written comments which reachme reachie reach me by february 151965 15 1965 i l 1 f i 1 na n7