Member News
Moon Jung Chang, librarian of the National Assembly
Library in Seoul, Korea, is a visiting librarian at the Korean
Heritage Library of University of Southern California. His one-year
term as a visiting librarian will end at the end of September,
1999.
Keumsook Hahn, formerly young adult librarian at Pio
Pico Koreatown Public Library, has transferred to the International
Languages Department of Central Library of the Los Angeles Public
Library System.
Suzine Har-Nicolescu, chief librarian at Medgar Evers
College/CUNY Library was invited by the National Center of Science
Information Systems to present a paper on multiculturalism in
a forum in Tokyo, Japan on the study of international sharing
of Japanese scholarly information. Her ten-day visit in early
March of this year included a speech given at the University
of Kyoto. Her paper, entitled, "Reaching Out to the Multicultural
World: IFLA and Librarians as Agents of Change" described
multiculturalism from a geographical perceptive: worldwide (IFLA),
national (ALA) and local (New York City)
Charlotte (Chung-Sook) Kim, assistant commissioner
of Neighborhood Services, was featured in the Korea Times May
23, 1998 issue for her several awards. She received the
"Outstanding Achievement Award" in community leadership
from YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. The State Secretary of Illinois,
George Ryan, also chose her as the Outstanding Asian American
Librarian in celebration of Asian American Heritage Month for
the State. In addition, she was one of five recipients of the
Outstanding Community Service Award for the Korean community
given by Mayor Richard M. Daley on September 22, 1998. This was
the sixth annual celebration of Korean Chusok (Korean Thanksgiving)
sponsored by Mayor Daley. On October 15, 1998, she was one of
six women presented with an Outstanding Chicago Woman Award at
the 27th YWCA Leader Luncheon. In July of this year, Today's
Chicago Woman, published by Sherren Leigh, announced that Ms.
Kim is one of 100 women making a difference for the City of Chicago.
Joy Kim, curator of the Korean Heritage Library of
University of Southern California was elected as Chair of the
Committee on Korean Materials for the Council on East Asian Libraries
(CEAL) for Asian Studies. She was also elected as Korean Officer
of the OCLC CJK Users Group.
Sun Yoon Lee will be the new Korean studies librarian
at the Korean Heritage Library of University of Southern California.
She graduated from Yonsei University in Korea majoring in library
science and has her Master's degree from the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in library
and information science at the University of Texas at Austin.
She has many publications to her credit and has expert knowledge
in metadata, bibliometrics, cataloging, and information technology.
She and her two children moved to California in August and her
first day at USC will be October 1, 1999.
Unjoo H. Lee has transferred to the Cataloging Department
of the County of Los Angeles Public Library. She was formerly
a Children's Librarian at the Hacienda Heights branch of the
County of Los Angeles Public Library.
Youngsil Lee was promoted to be Branch Manager of Kaufman
Brentwood Public Library of the Los Angeles Public Library System.
She was a reference librarian in the Business/Economics Department
of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library System.
Miki Lim was also promoted to be Branch Manager of
Pio Pico Koreatown Public Library of the Los Angeles Public Library
System. She was formerly the Young Adult Librarian at the same
branch. She successfully completed her term as the President
of the KALA in 1997/98.
Ed Pai completed a Ph.D. in Information Science at
the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA
in June, 1999. He continues to teach as an adjunct professor
at the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State
University, Southern California Campus. He helped design the
KALA homepage in collaboration with Choonhee Rhim, President
of the KALA and many other members.
Jae Min Roh, who was the Branch Manager of Pio Pico
Koreatown Public Library retired on April 21, 1999 after 27 years
of service to Los Angeles Public Library System, 15 of which
were spent as Branch Manager of Pio Pico Koreatown Library. He
was one of the founding members of the KALA and contributed tremendously
to the Association. He also worked hard to promote library services
in the Korean community in Los Angeles area organizing Book Reading
Contest and many other library-related activities for the community.
Congratulations in your retirement, and many thanks for all your
efforts to improve library service!
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