A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, President Clinton appointed her, in February 1997, to his Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), by a new Presidential Executive Order. She is also a member of the PITAC/NGI Subcommittee.

Since 1987, Dr. Chen has been Chief Organizer of a series of 10 New Information Technology (NIT) conferences in many parts of the world -- Bangkok ('87), Singapore ('89), Guadalajara, Mexico ('90), Budapest ('91), Hong Kong ('92), Puerto Rico ('93), Alexandria, Virginia ('94), Riga, Latvia ('95), Pretoria, South Africa ('96), and Hanoi, Vietnam ('98) -- helping to bring NIT to many developing countries. The outcome of NIT '94 is her groundbreaking book, Planning Global Information Infrastructure. See also the latest published "Message from the Chief Conference Organizer".

Active in professional associations, she has been the three-term Council-at-Large and Presidential Candidate (1996) of the 58,000-member American Library Association (ALA), the Director of the Board for American Society for Information Science (ASIS), and Library Information Technology Association (LITA) in addition to many committee responsibilities of ALA, ASIS, LITA, AAAS, etc.

She is a recipient of many major awards, including the ASIS' Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award (1983), the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from University of Michigan (1983) and National Taiwan University (1984), the LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology (1990), LITA/Library Hi Tech Award (1994), the Humphry Award (1996), the first ALISE Pratt-Severn National Faculty Award in Library and Information Studies (1997), and the Educator Award from Case Western Reserve University (1999). She was also elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985). In the last two years, she was voted by Avenue: Asia as one of the 500 most influential Asian Americans in the U.S.A.

 
Local Conference Chair NIT '99

Dr. Margaret C. Fung is President of the Library Association of China, Member of the Librarianship Committee of the Ministry of Education, the Ministerial Member (Minister without Portifoio) of the Examination Yuan in charge of civil service and, and Advisor to National Central Library and its Taiwan Branch. She received her doctoral degree from the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University in l983, and was a visiting professor during l984-l987 at the University of Illinois. She has had extensive library working experience at numerous institutions, includng the St. John's University, Brookline Public Library, Harvard-Yenching Library in the U.S., Hongkong Chinese University, and National Taiwan Normal University (as the University Librarian). She has also taught at National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University, Tamkang University, Catholic Fu-Jen University and National Chengchi University for the past three decades. She has played an important role in the development of librarianship and library/information science education in Taiwan.

Active in professional and community activities, she not only pioneered library automation in Taiwan but was also instrumental to the development of Chinese character set (CCCII- Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange). Having served as the Director of Chinese Studies Program at Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, a research associate at the Fairbank Center, of Harvard University, and Advisor to the Boston University, she has contributed to the worldwide promotion and development of Sinology. Her current efforts are directed to the formulation of Library Laws, the betterment of library/information infrastructure in Taiwan and international cooperation in the arena of library/information professionals. She is a prolific author who has published more than 60 articles and several books including Library and Information, Library and Information Science, Library Building Trends, The Evolving Social Mission of the National Central Library in China l928-66, Primer of Library Automation and Reflections on Civil Service and Library/Information Science, etc. She has also served as an editor of several professional journals, such as Journal of Library and Information Science, Digest for Chinese Studies, Bulletin of Library and Information Science and Journal of Information Communication and Library Science.

Her contributions have been recognized by Beta Phi Mu and Phi Tau Phi (as members) and by the City of Dallas, Texas as an honorary citizen of Dallas. Her other major awards include Association of China Outstanding Service Awards, CALA Outstanding Award, Louise Maxwell Award and Outstanding Five-Year Civil Service Award. Her biography is listed in many national and international Who's Who's.

 
Local Conference Steering Committee

Dr. Lih-Shyang Chen, Computer Center, Ministry of Education
Dr. Margaret C. Fung, Library Association of China
Dr. Fang-Rung Juang, National Central Library
Mr. Ching-Lung Liu, Science & Technology Information Center, National Science Council (NSC)
Prof. Cheng-Ku Wang, National Taiwan Normal University

Mrs. Teresa W. Chang, Library Association of China
Ms. Chia-Ning Chiang, National Central Library
Prof. Nancy O. Hu, National Chengchi University
Dr. Ting-Ming Lai, Shih Hsin University
Ms. Wei Peng, National Central Library
Mrs. Rui-Lan K. Wu, National Central Library
Dr. Mei-Hua Yang, National Chengchi University
Ms. An-an Yeh, Science & Technology Information Center, NSC
Mr. Chung-Tzong Yu, Science & Technology Information Center, NSC