Events

23 Nov 2016 - 6 Dec 2016

3943 8740 / spc@lib.cuhk.edu.hk

Exhibition:
Date: 23 Nov -6 Dec 2016
Time: Library Opening Hours (http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/ )
Venue: G/F, University Library

Public Lecture:
Date: 24 Nov 2016
Time: 4pm
Venue: User Education Room 1, University Library
Speaker: 程煥文教授 (中山大學圖書館館長)
Details: please refer to the poster

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Dr. Alfred Kaiming Chiu : A great pioneer of East Asian Librarianship and founding University Librarian of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

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In 1966, Dr. Alfred Kaiming Chiu (1898 – 1977) became the first University Librarian of The Chinese University of Hong Kong after he retired from Harvard University as the founding Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library. During his tenure as the University Librarian, he built strong Chinese collections and made a significant effort to gather rare books. Today, CUHK Library’s rare book collection consists of more than 900 titles in 14,000 volumes of Chinese classical books printed in China, Japan and Korea. The collection dates from the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1260-1368) to the end of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (A.D. 1795) of the Qing Dynasty. As a scholar-librarian, Dr. Chiu built up this pre-eminent collection, including Yi benyi fulu zuanshu 《易本義附錄纂疏》 (1247-1314), Xiaoxue shu jicheng 《小學書集成》(1271-1368) and Tripitaka Koreana《高麗藏》 (1909). Dr. Chiu was also a pioneer establishing a library classification system for Chinese language materials in the United States. The system devised by him is known as the Harvard-Yenching Classification System, and is still in use today. This lecture and exhibition pay tributes to the significant contribution Dr. Chiu made to East Asian librarianship and to CUHK Library in particular.

All are welcome