Thank you for asking, pointhi!
I got off to a rocky start using simple 74' series digital logic -- the second part I needed was a 74xx164, and I could not find it in any technology. Looking back at the 74' library now, it was an unlucky pick; the library seems pretty reasonable. (But the '164 is in active production as an HC part and probably in other technologies too, so it would be nice to add it at some point.)
Went on to a few 74xx1G parts. The basics are there, but I stumbled pretty quickly once more, looking for the '1G123 (monostable vibrator) and the '1G3157 (a very neat little 2:1 multiplexer/analog switch). I gave up at that point and decided to do at least the schematic capture in Eagle.
As mentioned above, I was (am?) considering to import the schematic to KiCAD to do the placement and routing there. (Tried the import, and it seems to work well.) I had not realized that using the Eagle libraries directly in KiCAD was another option. Good to know, thank you for the tip!