No. 025 Newsletter - Association for Asian Studies. Committee on East Asian Libraries

              elvyin edvyin vin win pin Q doat beat doal jr THE association FOR asianstudiesinc ASIAN asiak aslak STUDIES INC COMMITTEE ON EAST EAV ean ASIAN LIBRARIES yuk1hiso klhlco suruki susuki chairman asla alia asia asio library university ol 01 of Michr micht michigan mlchfgon michrgan gon gan ubrory lbror aankbof annarbor aan Ann arbot Arbor kioh mioh michigan an 48104 46104 raymond K ntonq ntoni tong tang editor of 0 News nwlllar newsloller loller newsletter no 25 2 august 15 1 1968 conferences MID AND did committees THE AIA ALA ali bli bla hij conference AT KANSAS CITY PETITION TO THE SUBJECT specialist SECTION ACRL A group of members of the association for asian studies attended the annual conference of the american library association meeting in kansas city missouri june 2329 23 29 included were yukihisa suzuki michigan eugene wu idu tuu harvard donald johnson yale john ma stanford joyce wright hawaii karl lo 10 kansas and warren tsuneishi library of congress the group had presented a petition to the subject specialists section of the association of college and research libraries a division of the tho american library libraxr association for the establishment of an asian subsection the function of the proposed subsection would be to attract asian area librarians to the principal professional association of librarians where they would participate in the activities of that organization it would like the slavic and east Europ european emi eui eul subsection provide programs of interest at the annual conferences of the american library association the petitioriwas petitioqwas approved by the subject specialists section and by the association of college and research libraries and is now being considered by the ALA C committee ommittee on organizations if approved the new asian subsection expects to organize organi zb a program for the next annual meeting of the american library association in atlantic city june 2228 22 28 1969 establishment of the subsection may be delayed if a proposed temporary moratorium on all new ALA activities is carried out FOURTH UNITED STATES JAPAN conference ON CULTURAL AND a11deducational educational INTE interchange RCHAITGE washington 11 INGTON D G C APRIL 38 3 8 1968 this unique series of binational discussions on cultural and educational interchange was brought intobeing into being by the decision of prime minister hayato ikeda and president john F kennedy in 1961 the fourth in the series convened in washington di D C from april 3 to 8 1968 under the joint chairmanship of professor john 1 14 hall yale university and dr tatsuo tatsuo horito president japan scholarship r association and don bon concurrently currently president japan library association