No. 010 Newsletter - Association for Asian Studies. Committee on American Library Resources in the Far East

              wllfrjl A COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN LIBRARY RESOURCES RESDURCES ON THE FAR EAST OF THE association FOR ASIAN STUDIES august 3 1965 edwin G beal jr co co orientalia division chairman library of congress washington D C 2050 20540 newsletter no 10 though I 1 had not expected that this newsletter would be issued so soon circumstances make it necessary I 1 enclosed memorandum to the board of directors in the minutes of our april meeting I 1 stated that we have been instructed to transmit to the associations secretary professor gosling during the present summer some detailed proposals of things which should be done I 1 am transmitting copies of the enclosed memorandum both to professor gosling and since he would in any case need to distribute them to the board of directors whether the association is in a position at the present time to act on these matters remains to be seen but in any case the present status of these undertakings is now on the record and will probably serve as the basis of action in the future if not nov now nowe nove novo it seems to me that the two microfilming micro filming projects described in considerable detail in the following pages are so obviously desirable and are so reasonably priced that they should be pursued from a number of approaches until they are carried through to completion for example if the association is unable to act upon them could they be consider considered consideredas edys edas as coming within the mandate of the joint committee on contemporary china although the primary concern of the JCCC is post 199 1949 mainland china eugene wu told me last december that he was interested in collecting information on all 20th century materials and when appropriate late 19th centurymaterials century materials aswell as veli well vell II 11 quinquennial statistical surve survey in a recent letter dr T H tsien has written for the purpose of keeping an official record of the far eastern collections at 5 year intervals we have the statistics since 1930 1 I enclose a new simplified questionnaire for your consideration for distribution you may wish to add any items eg do you recruit new staff members if so what is the position and starting salary the form may be returned to my address for analysis the questionnaire here isi 18 lsi quite brief and canbe banbe baabe answeredwith answer edwith little more than updating up dating some of the information which we supplied to dr tsien laet last year for the tsien survey report though I 1 am the first to admit that questionnaires always intimidate me and make my head ache I 1 shall do my best to comply and I 1 think we should all be grateful to dr tsien for his willingness to compile co MP ile lie this information and to maintain a record of the