Dr. Yuan was an advocate of modern library movement and a distinguished library administrator in China and later became a distinguished bibliographer on Chinese classics in the United States. Before settling in the United States, he was the Director of the National Library of China and made great contributions to Chinese librarianship. While at the Library of Congress, as the Consultant in Chinese Literature, he edited a descriptive catalog of rare Chinese books in the Library of Congress. He also served as the Chief Bibliographer of the Stanford Research Institute. Dr. Yuan was a productive scholar. Among his numerous works, his China in Western Literature: a Continuation of Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica (New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1958) was worth special attention. It was a comprehensive listing of some 18,000 monographic works on China in English, French, German published from 1921 to 1957. It was the most important bibliography on China since the appearance of the monumental compilation by Henri Cordier (1849-1925) several decades ago. His another work Russian Works on China, 1918-1960, in American Libraries (New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1961) listed materials in Russian works not included in China in Western Literature. To record the academic interests and accomplishments of Chinese students, who had pursued advanced studies abroad, Yuan compiled a number of lists of doctoral dissertations. The first one was A Guide to Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in America, 1905-1960 (Washington, DC: Sino American Cultural Society, 1961), a compilation of about 3,000 dissertation titles. This was followed by Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1916-1961, and A Guide to Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in Continental Europe, 1907-1962. To honor his dedication and accomplishments, the T. L. Yuan Memorial Scholarship was established at the School of Library Service at Columbia University in 1966 (T. L. Yuan: a Tribute, 1967). (From Mengxiong Liu, "The History and Status of Chinese Americans in Librarianship", Library Trends, v. 49, n. 1 , 2000).