INVITED PAPERS & SPEECHES

Other Topics

  • "What Does an Information Scientist Worry About?" PL Professional Society, Boston, MA, May 11, 1975.

  • "Dr. Martin M. Cummings," was the topic of a speech given on November 17, 1976 at the Francis Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, in honor of Dr. Cummings, the Director of the National Library of Medicine at the "Leaders in American Medicine," lecture series sponsored by Boston University School of Medicine, Benjamin Waterhouse Medical History Society, Boston Medical Library, Brown University Medical School, and Tufts Medical School.

  • "Foreign Language, Communication, and Science," was discussed at the Institute of Atomic Energy, Shanghai, May 28, 1979.

  • "The Role of Library and Information Professionals," was an invited key-note speech delivered at the 12th Mexican Library Association Annual Meeting in San Luis Potosi, Mexico on May 4, 1981.

  • Dr. Chen spoke on "ASIS and Its Role in Research," at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science in Crystal City, VA, October 5, 1983.

  • "ALA's Role to Its Members," was presented by Dr. Chen as a panel member at the New England Library Association's Annual Meeting on October 30, 1983.

  • Dr. Chen moderated both the Legislative Workshop and the Information Update, sponsored by the ALA Legislation Committee, at the ALA mid-winter meeting in Washington DC on January 5 & 7, 1985.

  • Dr. Chen testified April 14, 1984 on behalf of ALA for the "Humanities Projects in Libraries" under " Special Projects" of the Division of General programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Subcommittee of the Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives.




  • "Population Education in the Visual Information Age: Technological Progress, Myths, and Realities," was an invited speech presented at The Unesco Regional Conference on Population Education, Caracas, Venezuela, January 28- 31, 1991.





  • "Toward a dynamic global information merketplace: A consultant/educator's view on the potentials for the information industry," is an invited speech delivered at the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Fall Meeting, September 26, 1994 in Washington DC.