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Surname: WU
Given Name: JIANZHONG
Sex: Male
Nationality: Chinese
Birth Record: 26 May 1956, Shanghai, P. R. China
Language: Chinese, English and Japanese
 


  { Education }  { Positions } 
{ Professional Activities }  
 { Academic Works }  { Papers }

Education
1988-1992 University of Wales (Aberystwyth, U.K.), Ph.D. in Library Science
1980-1982 East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), M.A. in Library Science
1973-1978 East China Normal University, B.A. in Japanese Studies

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Positions
2002-date Director, Shanghai Library and Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai
1992-2001 Deputy Director, Shanghai Library and Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai
1989-1990 Cataloguer, National Library of Wales (Wales, U.K.)
1985-1988 Deputy Director, Shanghai Library
1983-1985 Chief, United Nations Depository, Shanghai Library
1982-1983 Acquisitions Librarian, Shanghai Library
1980-1982 Assistant Lecturer, Library Science Department, East China Normal University
1978-1980 Assistant Lecturer, Foreign Languages Department, East China Normal University

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Professional Activities
2006-date Shanghai Conference Ambassador
2005-date General designer on the Theme Development for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
2005-date Vice Chairman, Library Society of China (China Society for Library Science)
2005-date President, Shanghai Library Association
2003-date President, Shanghai Society for Library Science
2002 Jury member, Access to Learning Award for 2002, Council on Library and Information Resources
2001-date IFLA Governing Board, Professional Committee, Publication Committee and PAC Advisory Committee
2001-date Guest Professor, East China Normal University
2000-date Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University
2000-2001 Adjunct Faculty Member, OCLC Institute
1999-2001 Member, Advisory Group for Revising the IFLA Statutes
1998-2002 Secretary General, Shanghai Society for Library Science
1997-date Vice Chairman, Academic Committee, China Society for Library Science
1994-2001 Secretary General, Shanghai Information Resources Consortium
1992-1997 Vice Chairman, Section on Library Resources, China Society for Library Science
1986-1989 Vice Chairman, Academic Committee, Shanghai Society for Library Science
1985-1988 Council member, Shanghai Society for Library Science

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Academic Works

Books
   
Library of the 21st Century, by Wu Jianzhong. San Francisco: Long River Press, 2006.
    Stategic Planning: Ten Topics on Library Management, edited by Wu Jianzhong. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 2005, 239pp. (in Chinese)
    Ten Hot Topics on Library Development: Strategic Thinking, edited by Wu Jianzhong. Taipei: Wenhua Publishing House, 2004, 284pp. (in Traditional Chinese)
    The Public Library of the 21st Century, by Wu Jianzhong and edited by Nancy Ou-lan Hu. Taipei: Wenhua Publishing House, 2002, 242pp. (in Traditional Chinese)
    The Library of the 21st Century: China, Japan and the United States, by Wu Jianzhong, Shiomi Noboru and Kawasaki Yoshitaka. Kyoto: Kyoto University Library and Information Science Research Society, 2001, 251pp. (in Japanese)
New Perspectives on the Library of the 21st Century (In Chinese). The 2nd edition. Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 2003.
 Strategic Thinking: Ten Topics on Library Development (In Chinese). Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 2002.
 OCLC (In Chinese). Beijng: Huayi Publishing House, 2001.
 DC Metadata (In Chinese). Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 2000.
 New Library Buildings of the World. Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 1999.
 New Perspectives on the Library of the 21st Century (In Chinese). Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 1998.
 Perspectives for the Library of the 21st Century (In Chinese)). Shanghai: Scientific and Technical Information Publisher, 1996.
 Libraries and Society in Shanghai: 1840-1949. Ph.D. thesis (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), 1991.

 

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Papers
Over 80 papers have been published so far. The following are the main papers since 1993.
 Library's role in bridging the digital divide. In: Knowledge Navigation and Library Services: the Proceedings of the First Shanghai International Library Forum, 15-17 July 2002. Shanghai: Shanghai Library, 2002, p. 425-32.
 Ten Topics on Library Development. China Library Journal, 2002(2): 7-12.
 Public Library Movement in China. Lifelong Education and Libraries (Japan), 2002(3):29-42
 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
 Shanghai Library's Quality Service Campaign, Library Management, 21(8): 404-408
 Constructing the new Shanghai Library, in Building Libraries for the 21st Century, by T.D. Webb, McFarland, 2000,32-40
 The status quo & future trends of public libraries in the East Asia. Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science (Taipei), 6 (1), 25-31.
 A Palace for Knowledge: the New Building of the Shanghai Library, by Wang Renfang and Wu Jianzhong. Asian Libraries, 7 (11), 1998, 339-342.
 Librarianship and information work in Far East. In: Line, M., ed. Librarianship and Information Work Worldwide 1999. London: Bowker, 1999, 243-266.
 Constructing a new Shanghai Library, paper presented at the‘96 IFLA Beijing, 26 August 1996.
 Serials Management in the New Shanghai Library. Serials Librarian, 35(3),117-122.
 Libraries and librarians of the 21st century (in Japanese). Toshokan Kai (Library World) 48(6), 491-93.
 The destruction of books and libraries in Shanghai during the World War II, Wu Jianzhong, Information, Communication and Library Science, 2(4), 9-14.
 "An absolute necessity": the evolution of the public library of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1849-1943, Wu Jianzhong and John Harris, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 25(1), March 1993, 7-14.

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