|
|
|
|
Dr. Chou born in July of 1935 at Nanking, China and came to the U.S. February of 1961. He was graduated from Rosary College with a Master Degree in Library Science in 1963 and earned his doctoral degree from the Graduated Library School of the University of Chicago in 1972. His dissertation "A New Alphameric Code for Chinese Ideograph: Its Applications and Evaluation" represented the Graduated Library School of the University of Chicago for the National Competition of Doctoral Dissertation of 1972.
He was an Assistant Librarian of the Far Eastern Library, University of Chicago, in 1968. In 1970, he founded an East Asian Library for Rutgers University which presently holds a collection of 150,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Subsequently, he was promoted to Librarian I (Professor) in 1998.
He has taught various courses for the Library School of Rutgers, mostly independent studies, since 1976. In 1974, he was invited as a Visiting Associate Professor by the National Taiwan University where he taught two courses: System Planning and Problems of contemporary Libraries. He is also a National Visiting Associate Professor and consultant in the National Science Council of the Republic of China for three times. In recognition of his services to the National Science Council and contributions to science in Taiwan, he was granted a silver plaque by the National Science Council in 1979. In may of 1975, he was a consultant, involving in the initial stage of designing the National network of Korea, in the Ministry of Science of South Korea. In the 1986 International Conferences on Library Automation, , he was the Chair of the session on Inputting Chinese characters to computers and delivered his paper on speech recognition of modern Chinese which is the result of one of the pioneering research on the topic. In 1989, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Central University. He was also appointed by the President of the National Central University on the Committee overseeing the new construction of the University Library as well as its reorganization.
In 1983, he was invited by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China to be a foreign visiting expert to teach at the Jilin University in Changchun on library automation. In 1988, the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China invited him to teach the principles of library automation at the Department of Library and Medical Library Information of Hunan Medical University. During his teaching in China, he also gave a 10-days seminar to the staff of the university library at the National Zhejiang University.
He is the Chief Editor of a monographic series (8 volumes, so far) on library science published by the San-min Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Library and Information Science and the Journal of Information, Communication and Library Science. He is the author of T'u-shu Tzu-hsun-hsuneh Tao-lun (Introduction to Library and Information Science (Taipei: San-min Bookstore, 1991).