• MacUser (October 1994) "50 Best CD-ROMs" - The First Emperor of China is one of the 50 Best, October 1994








  • New England Library Association's Emerson Greenaway Award, October 1994








  • LITA/Library High Tech Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communiting to Educate Practitioners within the Library Field in Library and Information Technology, Summer 1994



  • Distinguished Service Award of the Asian Pacific Librarians Association, June 1992


  • Silver Medal of CINDY Award of the Association of Visual Communicators, Voyager's version of The First Emperor of Chinavideodisc, February 1992







  • LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology, June 1990

  • Conference Grant from the State Department via National Commission of Library and Information Science for the 2nd-8th Conference on New Information Technology, 1989- 1995
    - Support also partially from Unesco for 2nd Pacific Conference, 1989 in Singapore
    - Support also partially from Organization of American States for NIT '90, 1990 in Guadalajara, Mexico





  • Distinguished Service Award, American Library Association, July 1989






  • Outstanding Service Award, National Central Library, ASIS Taipei, Chapter and the Chinese Library Association, Taipei, August 1986







  • Distinguished Service Award, American Library Association, July 1985








  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 1985








  • Certificate of Appreciation, American Society for Information Science, October 1984




  • SIG-of-the-Year (Special Interest Group) Award, American Society for Information Science, Serving as Assistant Chair of SIG/III (International Information Issues), October 1983




  • Distinguished Service Award, Chinese Library Association, October 1983








  • Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, American Society for Information Science, October 1983





  • Distinguished Service Award, National Taiwan University, 1983
  • Certificate of Appreciation, Asian/ Pacific American Librarians Association and the Chinese-American Librarians Association, June 1983

  • Distinguished Service Award, Chinese-American Librarians Association, 1982
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, School of Library Science, University of Michigan, 1980

  • First runner-up for the 1976 American Society for Information Science Best Information Science Book Award, 1978

  • Applications of Operations Research Models to Libraries by MIT Press Nominated for consideration of the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America, 1977




  • Awarded the Marion and Jaspar Whiting Foundation Travel Research Grant to study the medical, scientific and technical library systems and information centers in selected foreign countries





  • Awarded a fellowship to attend the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Evaluation and Scientific Management of Library and Information Centers, Bristol, England, held August 17-29, 1975

  • Tuition Fellowship to study for Ph.D. at the Case Western Reserve University, 1973- 1974

  • Simmons College Fund for Research grants, 1972-1981

  • Emily Hollowell Research Fund grants, 1972-

  • Member of Beta Phi Mu (Honor Society in Library Science), 1972-

  • Awarded a fellowship as Barbour Scholar to the University of Michigan (selected from several hundred qualified Oriental women), 1959-1961

  • Awarded a four-year scholarship as Rotary Scholar to the National Taiwan University for highest scholastic achievement, 1956-1959

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