Bob Lee, the youngest of six children, said he didn’t realize the significance of his father’s contributions until later in his adult life.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Like most inventions, the name of the person who created the device goes unnoticed. Such is the case with Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, unless you live in the library world.Lee, a Fulbright Scholar, also saw an opportunity to modernize how higher education could provide students, faculty, researchers and staff with access to valuable digital research. In 1992, Lee became the founding director of OhioLINK which today connects 117 libraries at 88 institutions plus the State Library of Ohio.
Lee recalls growing up with countless international students who came to OU to learn library and information science. Before he retired from OU, Lee made sure OU would become home to one of five library depositories in the state of Ohio. It’s a building that holds more than 600,000 books, journals, VHS, film reels and more. Items deemed so unique are worthy of preservation but need a special, climate-controlled building for storage.
In 2003, Lee was coaxed out of retirement. The Library of Congress in Washington DC asked him to serve as the Asian Division Chief, the highest leadership position of any Asian American librarian.“He started to give them some names of people he thought would be good,” said his son Bob. “And they're like, ‘No, Dr. Lee, we want you to be the head of the Asian Division’. So, he became the first Asian to be the head of the Asian Visual Library Congress.
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