哈佛燕京图书馆郑炯文馆长访谈

An Interview with James Cheng,Director of the Harvard-Yenching Library

在哈佛燕京图书馆郑炯文馆长荣休之际,哈佛燕京学社李若虹博士对他进行了访谈。郑炯文馆长回顾了自己管理美国顶尖大学东亚图书馆的历程,分享了自己从事图书馆事业数十载遵守的两条准则:保证藏书质量和全心全意为学者提供一流的服务,并介绍了燕京图书馆为了满足信息时代的需求,在过去的20多年所经历的变革和创新,以及最终如何发展成为一家能在21世纪为哈佛大学以及世界各地的师生、学者提供一流服务的研究型图书馆。除了改进馆藏结构,提高服务质量以外,郑馆长还在任期内着手启动了两个大的项目:访问图书馆员项目和善本书数字化项目,此举不仅推动了图书馆的国际合作进程,而且弥补了哈佛燕京图书馆业务上的不足,使得馆内珍藏本以电子版的形式能为世界各地学者所利用。

James Cheng,Director of the Harvard-Yenching Library,had an interview by Dr.Li Ruohong of the Harvard-Yenching Institute upon his retirement,reflecting on his 22-year service in this important role.Director Cheng emphasized his two guiding principles in leading East Asian libraries in major research universities in the U.S.—maintaining high quality collections and services—as the key to developing and maintaining an excellent library in a research university.He also shared the change and transformation that the Harvard-Yenching Library has gone through during his tenure.In addition to expanding the library s collections and enhancing its services,Director Cheng initiated two programs—a visiting librarian program and a large scale of digitization project—to aim at further improvement of the library s scholarly impact and international collaboration.By these efforts and his close collaboration with the Harvard University Library system to develop and modernize the traditional catalog system,Director Cheng turned the Harvard-Yenching Library into a 21st-century research library for scholars,researchers,faculty and students at Harvard and beyond.