Elizabeth Huff (1912- 1988) was an American Sinologist best know for her work building the Chinese Library and Asian collection at University of California, Berkeley. [1]


Among her contemporary library heads were Nancy Lee Swann at Princeton and Mary Wright at Stanford.

Publications

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  • "Far Eastern Collections in the East Asiati c Librar y of the Universit y of California," Far Eastern Quarterly . 14, No . 3 (May 1955).
  • The Asami Library: A Descriptive Catalogue, by Chaoyin g Fang , edited by Elizabet h Huff, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

References

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  • Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (2022), Elizabeth Huff, Harvard University.
  • Roge r Sherman, "Acquisition of the Mitsui Collection by the East Asiati c Library , Universit y of California , Berkeley," CEA L Bulletin. No . 67 (Feb. 1982), pp. 1-15.


  • Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien. East Asian Studies in American Libraries. in (ed.), Collected Writings on Chinese Culture The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2011). pp. 219-235. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pb61wm.19
  • Donald H. Shively, "Obituary: Elizabeth Huff (1912-87)," The Journal of Asian Studies 47.1 (1988): 206-207. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2056439
  • R. G. Irwin, "The Building of a General Far Eastern Library and the Variety of Its Uses," Journal of the American Oriental Society 87.4 (1967): 487-492. http://www.jstor.org/stable/597589
  • C. K. Huang, "Developing an East Asian Collection: Requirements and Problems," The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 40.2 (1970): 236-244. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4309919

"Currents," American Libraries 18.11 (1987): 976-978. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25631583

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