The new library movement in China and the impact of American librarianship in the beginning of the 20th Century
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Known as the Queen of Modern Library Movement in China, Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood acted as a bridge of eternal friendship linking American library world with Chinese library world. This paper recalls the New Library Movement in China at the beginning of the 20th century which was initiated by her and developed with the help of other Americans. Moreover, it analyzes the impact of American librarianship on Chinese librarianship. Through this diachronic and synchronic analysis, it summarizes the significance of Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood and American Librarianship in China and thus helps us not only have a better understanding of the history of Chinese librarianship but also the history of modern libraries in Asia.
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[1] Marion De Conway Ward. Tribute to Miss Wood. Library Journal, Vol.56 (June 1 1931): 499
[2] Samuel T. Y. Seng. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood: The Queen of the Modern Library Movement in China. Boone Library School Quarterly, Vol.3, No.3 (September 1931): 8-13
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John H. Winkelman. Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931): American Missionary-Librarian to Modern China. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), Vol. 8 (April 1982): 62-76
[4] Ibid.
[5] John H. Winkelman. Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931): American Missionary-Librarian to Modern China. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), Vol.8 (April 1982): 62-76
[6] Ibid.
[7] George W. Huang. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood: Pioneer of the Library Movement in China. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), Vol.1, No.1 (April 1975): 67-78
[8] Samuel T. Y. Seng. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood: The Queen of the Modern Library Movement in China. Boone Library School Quarterly, Vol.3, No. 3 (September 1931): 8-13
[9] Mary Elizabeth Wood. Library Work in a Chinese City. ALA Bulletin.1 (1907): 84-87
[10] Ibid.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Samuel T. Y. Seng. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood: The Queen of the Modern Library Movement in China. Boone Library School Quarterly, Vol.3, No. 3 (September 1931): 8-13
[13] John H. Winkelman. Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931): American Missionary-Librarian to Modern China. Journal of Library and Information Science (China Taiwan), Vol.8 (April 1982): 62-76
[14] Samuel T. Y. Seng. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood: The Queen of the Modern Library Movement in China. Boone Library School Quarterly, Vol.3, No.3 (September 1931): 8-13
[15] Ibid.
[16] Note: The New York Public Library School, one of three library schools at public libraries in the USA in 1910s, was established in 1911 under the major influence of Edwin Anderson with the financial support of Carnegie. Edwin Anderson, a graduate of the New York State Library School, strongly convinced of its merit. He had initiated the training class at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh that grew into its library school and had come to New York after three years as head of the New York State Library School. Appointed as Principal was Miss Mary Wright Plummer, Anderson’s sister -in-law, a cultivated woman well known in the library world as founder and director of the Pratt Institute Library School and author of a popular manual on library economy.
[17] Library School of the New York Public Library: Student Register 1911-1923. New York: the Library, 1924.
[18] Cheng Huanwen. The Impact of American Librarianship on Chinese Librarianship in Modern Times (1840-1949). Libraries & Culture, Vol.26, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 373-387
[19] John H. Winkelman. Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931): American Missionary-Librarian to Modern China. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), Vol.8 (April 1982): 62-76
[20] Samuel T. Y. Seng. Libraries in 1921, Xin Jiao Yu (New Education), Vol.4, No.5 (November 1921): 783-797
[21] John H. Winkelman. Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861-1931): American Missionary-Librarian to Modern China. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), Vol.8 (April 1982):62-76
[22] Li Jixian. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood and Chinese Librarianship. Tu Shu Guan Xue Zhou Kan (Library Science Weekly). No.7 (May 21, 1931): 3-4
[23] Cheng Huanwen. A Biography of Samuel T. Y. Seng: The Father of Library Science Education in China. Taipei: Student Book Co., Ltd., 430p, August 1997.
[24] Mary Elizabeth Wood. Recent Library Development in China, ALA Bulletin, 18 (1924): 178-182
[25] Ibid.
[26] Ibid.
[27] C. T. Wang. Miss Wood as China’s Friend, Boone Library School Quarterly, Vol.3, No.3 (September 1931): 3