5/6/97

ATHENS, Ohio -- Dean of Ohio University Libraries Hwa-Wei Lee has been appointed to the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Global Resources Advisory Board.

The Advisory Board oversees AAU and ARL evaluation of the Global Resources Program which assists scholars in accessing foreign research resources by coordinating collection building among libraries and using technology to identify and make available a wide array of library resources.

"Ohio University Libraries have been a leader in developing international library collections and resources," Lee said. "Our world-renowned Southeast Asia Collection and our repository status for publications from Malaysia, Botswana, and Swaziland are among outstanding examples. Being selected to the Global Resources Advisory Board is not only a personal honor but an important recognition of Ohio University's unique place in the nation for our efforts in internationalizing our curriculum."

Lee joins other board members from the University of Washington Libraries, Indiana University, University of Illinois, Columbia University, Duke University, American Council for Learned Societies, University of Toronto and Michigan State University.