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The State Department of China granted Dr.Wu Jianzhong a special award for his outstanding contribution in 2002.

BIT-ONLINE, a German journal published an interview called Interview mit Dr. Wu Jianzhong, Shanghai Library on the fourth issue of 2002.

Public Library Journal (V.17, no. 4) issued a group of articles about Glasgow IFLA, including Wu Jianzhong’s Digital Opportunities in Shanghai (p. 123-124).

IFLA issued The IFLA Position on The World Trade Organization.

Wu Jianzhong becomes a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services.

An interview with Wu Jianzhong by Mr. Yu Zhichun, a journalist, was published by Modern Leaders, a leading magazine on management (Shanghai), on the 11th issue 2000, pp. 20-21.

New Library Buildings of the World (by Wu Jianzhong) is reviewed by Michael Dewe on Library Management (21:9, 2000).

Wu Jianzhong gave his presentations on DC metadata in Hong Kong (16-18 October) and Beijing (20-22 October). Those who are interested in his presentations please contact him jzwu@libnet.sh.cn.

The Shanghai Library has translated the version of Revised IFLA Statutes and Rules of Procedure into the Chinese.

The Seminar of Knowledge Management and Metadata was held on 23-25 June 2000 by OCLC Institute and Shanghai Library. Mr. Jul Eric, Dr. Hwa-wei Lee and Dr. Wu Jianzhong made their presentations. There are about 70 people attended the Seminar.

Wu Jianzhong's answers to questions raised by Dr. Maria  Chavez-Hernandez and students of School of Information Studies of Florida State University of the United States.

Dr. Wu Jianzhong’s reflections Conference Feedback on World Knowledge Forum 17-19 October 2001, Seoul, Korea.
http://www.emerald-library.com/literaticlub/whatsnew/feedback6.htm

Wu Jianzhong is going to Egypt for a library visit between May 16 and 28, 2000.

Wu Jianzhong attended an OCLC seminar at Dublin and visited NSLS and ALA in Chicago and had a talk at School of Information Studies in Florida State University between 9 and 18 April 2000.

On CCTV Channel 2 and 4 on 18 and 19 March 2000, China Report programme showed some distinguished returned scholars including Wu Jianzhong. 

Wu Jianzhong becomes an Adjunct Faculty Member of OCLC Institute.

Wu Jianzhong's article "Librarians' mission in the new century" receives an award by Library Journal (Shanghai).

Ross Shimmon, IFLA Secretary General's letter on the revision of IFLA Statutes and Rules of Procedure

Dr. Gary Gorman's view on South-North relations and IFLA

Wu Jianzhong becomes a member of the Advisory Group for revising the IFLA Statutes

On 21st December 1999, Wu received a fax from Mr. Ross Shimmon, secretary general of IFLA, inviting Wu Jianzhong to be a member of the Advisory Group for revising the IFLA Statutes. There are altogether seven persons in the Group with Marjorie Bloss as chairperson.

Library of the 21st century was awarded the First Price

Wu Jianzhong's book Library of the 21st century was awarded the First Price of the library literatures by the Shanghai Society for Library Science on 23rd December 1999.

Teleconference

A teleconference organized by the North Suburban Library System (NSLS), Chicago, USA, was held at 9:55 a.m. (Beijing time 23:55 p.m.) on 16 November 1999. It was chaired by Ms. Sarah Ann Long, the president of American Library Association, and attended by 20 public library directors of the System. Wu Jianzhong made a 25-minute presentation on public library development in Shanghai and answered some questions.  

Internet Discussion Group meeting

Wu Jianzhong attended the Internet Discussion Group meeting at the 65th IFLA conference in Bangkok and co-chaired one of the sections with Edward Valauskas, Chicago Gotanic Garden Library (USA).  Photo of Edward Valauskas and Dr. Wu Jianzhong

News about the book New Library Buildings of the World

New Library Buildings of the World (Wu Jianzhong as a chief editor) was included into a list of 500 selected books of the 50-year publishing history in Shanghai.

Agreement signed between Shanghai Society for Library Science and Japanese Association for Librarianship

The Shanghai Society for Library Science and The Japanese Association for Librarianship signed agreement for exchanging journals and articles. Please visit the following site for the details. (http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/nal/misc/shanghai.html in Japanese)

Wu Jianzhong becomes a member of  Editorial Board of Lifelong Education and Libraries

The Journal is published by Kyoto University (Japan) with Prof. Yoshitaka Kawasaki and Prof. Yasushi Maehira (Kyoto University) as chief editors.

News about Wu Jianzhong from China Daily

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