The CEAL Distinguished Service Award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant contribution to East Asian librarianship.<\/p>\n
2022 CEAL Distinguished Service Award Recipient<\/a><\/p>\n 2020 CEAL Distinguished Service Award Recipient<\/a><\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n Established in 1958, the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) from the beginning paved the way for East Asian librarianship, creating innovative ways to support the rapidly growing and evolving academic fields in East Asian Studies. Many CEAL members have made distinguished contributions to East Asian librarianship and to developing resources and services for East Asian Studies. These contributions have had a significant positive impact on the profession. In order to praise and promote CEAL members\u2019 outstanding contributions to East Asian librarianship, the CEAL president (2018-2020) proposed and the CEAL Executive Board (EB) approved the establishment of the CEAL Distinguished Service Award as the organization\u2019s highest recognition for an individual CEAL member who exemplifies distinguished service to East Asian Librarianship and East Asian Studies.<\/p>\n Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n The award is the CEAL\u2019s highest honor, recognizing extraordinary excellence in East Asian librarianship. It honors remarkable professional practice and great service to library users, which is exemplified in many ways and includes all aspects of library work, from public service to technical services and administration, and service to the profession through CEAL and other professional organizations. It also includes insightful and relevant research and writing and inspired teaching. Award recipients are leaders whose work exemplifies creativity, leadership and\/or scholarship in service to East Asian libraries and to East Asian Studies.<\/p>\n Nomination Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n Nomination Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n Nomination Form<\/strong><\/p>\n Nomination is a 2-stage process:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Complete online Nomination Form\u00a0 (Click link to access form: Online Nomination Form<\/a>) Information and Assistance<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have questions, please contact the Chair of the CEAL Distinguished Service Award Task Force, Zhijia Shen, at zhijia@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
\n–\u00a0 A short article about the award recipient, to be featured in the Journal of East Asian Libraries (JEAL) and on the CEAL Website
\n–\u00a0 A letter of recognition from the CEAL president to the award recipient\u2019s University Librarian and\/or other institution head as appropriate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\n2.\u00a0 \u00a0In addition, nomination packages including the 3 items below must be submitted electronically to Zhijia Shen, CEAL Distinguished Service Award Task Force Chair, at zhijia@uw.edu<\/a> as one single PDF document. Hard copies will not be accepted.<\/p>\n\n