Lian and Eunice in the Shanghai Airport waiting for our flight to Wuhan
We look pretty good for having taveled over 7000 miles and in airports and airplanes for over 24 hours.
Eunice outside the hotel in Wuhan.
Eunice and The 4th: Chunzhi Xie, one of Director Yan's assistants, on the steps of the University Hotel where we will stay.
Terry at the Hotel.
Coal is used for cook stoves and heat in Wuhan. Here a vendor of coal cylinders delivers them with his handcart in Wuhan.
The lecture room where Lian and I will deliver our lectures at Wuhan University
A view of one of the classrooms in the University library.
A view of one of the departmental libraries.
Terry, Director Yan, and Lian on the tour of the Library.
Terry and Xiaoyun Li one of the Wuhan University librarians who spent time at UIUC Library as a visiting librarian.
The "sample book and journal reading room" contains sample or publisher titles sent to the university.
Terry and Lian with University Library staff.
Pen Huang, Jiabing Xiao, Terry Weech, Director Yan, Lian Ruan, Lin Lu
Lian, Terry, and Director Yan on the steps of the Wuhan "old" University Library.
A fuller view of the "old" Library. Note the traditional architecture used.
Eunice on the roof of the "old" library. The new library was built in the 1980s.
Eunice notes the small line of cats used in decoration for the roof overhangs.
A close up of the cats on the roof.
This roof, according to the "Lonely Planet" tour book, had machine gun emplacments on it during the conflicts between factions of the party during the Cultural Revolution.
Director Yan, Lian Ruan, and Lin Lu posing for a photo atop the "old" library.
The former Reference area in the old library is now used as a scanning area for one of the library's digitalization projects.
The main reading room in the old library.
The interior entrance gate to the reading room.
More animals depicted on the roof.
The old library stands high on one of the hills in Wuhan. Thus explaining why machine guns might have been placed there during the cultural revolution.
Although Director Yan says he was at the University during the cultural revolution and he does not remember machine guns being placed on the roof.
Students live in the dorms located in the housing area below the old library and hang their wash on the roof of the buidings.
Below the library is a mural of scenes of the University buildings. Here is the mural depicting the library.
Here we are at the "new" library where Director Yan has his office.
The inner courtyward of the new library.
Lian, Director Yan, Terry and Pen Huang at the new library.
Lian and I go to the street to buy phone cards for our phones at reduced prices.
The man in the chair is the source for the cards.
Terry presents his lecture on Assessment of Library Services.
Lian lectuers on the new service models proposed for the UIUC library in Urbana.
The audience for our lectures.
The courtyard has many flowers around a pond with gold fish.
Eunice spends a pleasant half hour in the courtyard.
A small boy fed the fish from the muffin he was eating. Then he tried unsuccessfully to catch a fish in a paper cup.
We enjoyed a lavish dinner at a restaurant. This is a typical meal in a Chinese restaurant with many dishes being shared .
The food was delicious.
There was much discussion about how to say the various dishes in English.
Everyone had plenty to eat. There was much food left at the end of the meal.
The number of dishes was overwhelming. Everything was delicious and very attractively displayed.
That is a fish in the clear glass dish at the bottom of the photo.
