在校期间,李芳馥积极参加校园活动。他曾任学生刊物《华中季刊》编辑部通信员[8],并在该刊第1卷第4期发表论文The Open Door Doctrine and the Integrity of China(《门户开放政策与中国的领土完整》)[9]。他还曾担任华中大学益智会(Useful Knowledge Society)秘书[10]36。
1936年2月,李芳馥获得哥伦比亚大学图书馆学专业的科学硕士学位[19]。他提交的硕士学位论文题为Financing of Chinese Public Libraries(《中国公共图书馆的经费问题》[20]199,或被译成《中国公共图书馆网的建立与经费》[21]348),主要分析中国公共图书馆的经费现状,回顾中国公共图书馆的发展历史,讨论了其现状及社会各界的支持情况,指出现行经费支持与管理制度的薄弱之处,提出了若干条建议[22]。
1.3 入芝加哥大学图书馆学研究院
1935-1936 学年,李芳馥到芝加哥大学图书馆学研究院深造。对此,目前并未掌握一手档案,无法介绍其具体情况。不过,已有两条旁证可以证明此事:(1)1936 年7 月,芝加哥大学出版发行的《图书馆季刊》(The Library Quarterly)第6卷第3期登载了李芳馥撰写的书评《评<中国之图书馆>》,文末署名“Augustine F.Li”,并且明确标注其所在单位就是芝加哥大学图书馆学研究院[23]。(2)1955年5月,《芝加哥大学图书馆学研究院新闻简报》(The University of Chicago Graduate Library School News Bulletin)第13期登载了一份《失联校友名录》,其中便有李芳馥[24]。
1940 年上半年,李芳馥完成了哥伦比亚大学图书馆馆藏中文图书目录卡片的编制工作,并写出书面总结,以An Experiment in Cataloging Chinese Books(《中文图书的分编实验》)为题,发表在1940年6月出版的《美国远东研究通讯》(Notes on Far Eastern Studies in America)第7期。
Augustine Li.The Open Door Doctrine and the Integrity of China[J].华中季刊,1925,1(4):(英文部分)12-21.
Augustine Fong-fu Li.Financing of Chinese Public Libraries[D].New York:Columbia University,1936.
Augustine F.Li,Review of Libraries in China.Papers Prepared on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Library Association of China[J].The Library Quarterly,1936,6(3):316-320.
Augustine F.Li.An Experiment in Cataloging Chinese Books[J].Notes on Far Eastern Studies in America,1940(7):9-19.
[20]Douglas Waples.Graduate Theses Accepted by Library Schools in the United States from July,1935,to June,1938[J].The Library Quarterly,1939,9(2):193-203.
[22]Karen T.Wei.Library and Information Science in China: An Annotated Bibliography[M].Westport,Conn.:Greenwood Press,1988:105.
[23]Augustine F.Li.Review of “Libraries in China.Papers Prepared on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Library Association of China”[J].The Library Quarterly,1936,6(3):316-320.
[24]Lost Alumni[J].The University of Chicago Graduate Library School News Bulletin,1955(13):14-15.
[25]Library of Congress.Report of the Librarian of Congress,For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30,1937[M].Washington,D.C.:Library of Congress,1937.
[56]Columbia University.Annual Report of the President and Treasurer to the Trustees,with Accompanying Documents for the Year Ending June 30,1939[M].New York:Columbia University,1939:366-367.
A Critical Survey of Augustine Fong-Fu Li’s Library Career
ZHENG Jinhuai
Abstract Based on some newly-found English and Chinese historical materials,this paper makes a critical survey of Augustine Fong-Fu Li’s library career,especially his school life in Boone Library School,Columbia University and University of Chicago,his work experience in National Peiping Library,Library of Congress,Columbia University Library,Shanghai Branch of National Peiping Library,Shanghai College Library and Shanghai Library,and his part-time teaching experience in both Department of Library and Museum,National College of Social Education and Department of Library Science,East China Normal University.It is found out that he not only made great contributions to modern Chinese librarianship,but also played a key role in Sino-American library exchange.