Before becoming the founding librarian of the Asian Community Library, Judy Yung had served as an associate editor at East/West, a San Francisco Chinatown-based paper that served English- and Chinese-speaking audiences by publishing in both languages and covering Chinatown news as well as U.S. and international news related to Asians and Asian-Americans. As an associate editor, she had served as a reporter for the paper while also assisting with its production.
Fittingly, East/West covered the opening of the Asian Community Library through a profile of Yung. With the opening set to take place on March 1, 1976, the newspaper covered the event two weeks in advance, so as to publicize it to the larger Bay Area audience.
The newspaper article raised awareness of the new library to the Chinese-speaking community, which was one of the populations the library aimed to serve.
