Committee on American Library Resources on the Far East (CALFRE Chairs)
- 1963-1966
- Edwin G. Beal, Jr., Library of Congress
- 1966-1968
- T.H. Tsien, Univ. of Chicago
Committee on East Asian Libraries (CEAL Chairs)
- 1968-1970
- Yukihisa Suzuki, Michigan
- 1970-1971
- 1971-1973
- Raymond N. Tang, UC Berkeley
- 1973-1974
- Shih-Kang Tung, Princeton
- 1974-1976
- 1976-1979
- 1979-1982
- 1982-1985
- Richard C. Howard, Library of Congress
- 1985-1988
- 1988-1991
- 1991-1994
- Maureen Donovan, Ohio State
Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL Presidents)
- 1994-1997
- 1997-1999
- Tai-loi Ma (University of Hong Kong)
- 1999-2003
- Bill McCloy (University of Washington)
- 2003-2006
- Abraham J. Yu (University of California, Irvine)
- 2006-2008
- Philip Melzer (Library of Congress)
- 2008-2010
- Kristina Troost (Duke University)
- 2010-2012
- Joy Kim (University of Southern California)
- 2012-2014
- Peter Zhou (University of California Berkeley)
- 2014-2016
- Ellen Hammond (Yale University)
- 2016-2018
- Jim Cheng (Columbia University)