This year the winner of the 2001 CALA Distinguished Service Award is Mr. Eugene Wu.
Mr. Eugene Wu earned his B.A. in history and MLS from the university of Washington. He also completed his Ph.D. course-work at Stanford University. Mr. Wu began his life-long library career at Stanford University's Hoover Institution (1951-1965) and Harvard University 's Harvard-Yenching Library (1965-1997). Under his able leadership, the collections in both libraries have since become the most distinguished East Asian research collections in the world. Mr. Wu was one of the founding members of the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), a professional organization for the E. Asian library community in the U.S. He also initiated the OCLC CJK Users Group as a direct means of communication between OCLC CJK users and OCLC. Mr. Wu has published extensively. His publications include four major reference and research tools and more than twenty-five articles in library literature and East Asian studies. He has also presented papers and lectured throughout the U.S. and China. He has served as a consultant to the E. Asian libraries in the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong. His devotion to promoting East Asian librarianship and scholarship has earned him many distinguished awards and national and international recognitions.