Dr. Margaret Chang Fung (alias Ding-Chong Chang) was born in Nanking, China, on February 4, 1934. After the completion of undergraduate studies in the field of foreign languages and literature at the National Taiwan University, she pursued advanced study in the United States at the Graduate School of Education, University of Oregon and in the field of library science at Marywood College, earning M.S.L.S. degree in 1959. She returned to the United States for doctoral studies in library and information science in the early 1980's, earning her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in 1983. Her thesis deals with the evolving social mission of the National Central Library in China, 1928-1966, later published in 1984.
After working at St. John's University and Harvard Yenching Libraries in the United States, she returned to the Far East and worked at Hong Kong Chinese University Library restructuring its collections in the mid 60s'. In 1977, Dr. Fung was named Professor and Director of the University Library at the National Taiwan Normal University, pioneering library automation in Taiwan. She also taught at National Taiwan University, Catholic Fu-Jen University, Tamkang University and National Cheng-chi University during the past three decades. From 1984 to 1987, she served as the Executive Director of the Chinese Studies Program of the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in Boston, Massachusetts. Concurrently, she was also a visiting professor at University of Illinois, doing postdoctoral study on library automation. From 1988-90, she was a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University.
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Since 1990, she has held the position of a Member of Examination Yuan (Minister ranking) in charge of civil service for six years. Her outstanding contribution to civil service system in Taiwan was evidenced by her being consecutively nominated and elected to serve as a Member of Examination Yuan again for the second term from 1996-2002. She served the President of the Library Association of China from 1997-1999, with remarkable efforts and achievements of the library information profession. She also continues community service with the Chinese Cultural Restoration Committee, the Chinese Women's League and the Ling-Yung-Shan Cultural and Educational Foundation. She is now an honorary Board Director of the LAC and of the Chinese Association of Library & Information Education.
Dr. Fung has published numerous works, including more than 100 articles, and such books of solid scholarship as Library and Information (1979), A Primer of Library Automation (1981), On Library and Information Science (1982), Guide to Information Science (1984), and Reflections on Civil Service System Library/Information Science (1996). She was honored for her academic and professional achievements as a member of Phi Beta Mu and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and received many awards including the distinguished service awards by the Library Association of China and Chinese American Librarians Association, "Woman of the Year" in 1994, and Louise Maxwell Award of the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science by the Alumni Association in 1995.