9:00 am

Welcome

Professor Roland Chin

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, HKU

Introduction & Case Study Overview

Peter Sidorko

Positioning libraries for the 21st century: aligning your strengths with organizational success

Li Haipeng

Higher Education Trends: Changing Needs, Changing Practices

Bob Fox

Cultural visits

10:15 am

Tea Break

Tea Break

Tea Break

10:30 am

Transforming Traditional Organizations

Jeff Trzeciak

Alex Sévigny

Going Online with Library Instruction

Jeff Trzeciak

Alex Sévigny

Partnering with Publishers: Special Collections and Digitization

Jeff Trzeciak

12:00 noon

Lunch & library visit

Vendor Presentation: Next generation research information service in library: Solutions and Case Studies

Wang Yimin (Elsevier)

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

1:15 pm

Developing Blended Library Services
Jeff Trzeciak

Alex Sévigny

Developing New Media Services

Jeff Trzeciak

Alex Sévigny

Vendor Presentation: New platform, New Service

(1:15-1:45 pm)

Bonnie Yang (Apabi)

Departure

2:00 pm

Arrival
Check in at Ramada Hong Kong Hotel

(308 Des Voeux Road West, Hong Kong)

Case Study Presentations

(1:45 – 4:45 pm)

Peter Sidorko

Conclusion and Wrap up

2:30 pm

Preserving the Past: Technologies for Today

Jody Beenk

New Models of Collaborative Research Support

Jeff Trzeciak

Alex Sévigny

3:30 pm

Tea Break

Tea Break

3:45 pm

Case Study

Preparation Time

Case Study

Preparation Time

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Library Visits

(4:45 pm – 6 pm)

6:00 pm

Registration

Institute Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

6:30 pm

Welcome Dinner at Hotel

Jeffrey Trzeciak is the University Librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is responsible for the management of the Thode Science and Engineering Library, Innis Business Library and Mills Library for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Classroom Audio-Visual Services and the Lyons New Media Centre. As one of the top research libraries in North America, the McMaster University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.

Jeff has more than twenty years experience working in academic and public libraries. He held positions including Associate Dean at Wayne State University Library System in Detroit, Michigan and Head of Systems at Wright State University Libraries in Dayton, Ohio. In 2004 Jeff was recognized for his innovation by Library Journal in their “Movers and Shakers” edition. He is also a graduate of the Frye Leadership Institute (2005) sponsored by EDUCAUSE, CLIR, and Emory University. Has spoken internationally on a variety of topics including digital library initiatives, web 2.0, organizational change, and library innovation. In 2007 the McMaster Library became the first Canadian recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.

Peter Sidorko has 28 years of experience in academic libraries in Australia and Hong Kong. He is the recently appointed (January 1, 2011) University Librarian at the University of Hong Kong. In this role Peter is responsible for setting the vision and the strategic direction for the Libraries within the University of Hong Kong. Peter is also a part-time lecturer in the University of Hong Kong's information science courses offered through the Faculty of Education and the University's continuing education school, HKU SPACE, with subjects focusing on information policy, management, leadership and strategic planning. Peter's interest in effective management and leadership in libraries led to the establishment of the University of Hong Kong's Annual Library Leadership Institute in 2003, aimed at developing leadership qualities in Asian librarians, and now in its ninth year of operation. Peter was also a Faculty member of the Educause Australasian Leadership Institute between 2001 and 2003.

Alex Sévigny is Director of the Master of Communications Management program, and an associate professor of communication studies and communication management at McMaster University. He co-founded McMaster’s Communication Studies Program in 2001. He is co-founder and executive director of the COMM-LAB: McMaster Communication Metrics Lab. He is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of the new Journal of Professional Communication, and co-founder of the international graduate student journal, the McMaster Journal of Communication, of which he has been faculty editor for eight years. His areas of research and teaching are media content measurement, cognitive and behavioural measurement, social media strategy, community building & fundraising, communications management and political communication. He maintains an active consulting practice outside the university alongside his academic work and is a sought-after public speaker.

Haipeng Li is University Librarian at the Hong Kong Baptist University, leading the university libraries in strategic planning and development, among many other responsibilities. Prior to the position at Hong Kong Baptist University, he was Associate Director of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, responsible for research support services, coordination of personnel administration, and library planning, assessment, and innovation. He also had responsibilities for initiatives to expand outreach, engagement, collaborations, and fundraising for the Dana Library on campus. Before Rutgers, he had served as reference librarian at Oberlin College in Ohio, University of Arizona and Arizona State University.

Haipeng Li is active in professional services. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color 2012 (JCLC), Chair of the ALA IRC Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, served as President of the Chinese American Librarians Association 2006-2007 (CALA) and has been Executive Director of CALA since 2008. He has been actively promoting collaboration and exchange between libraries in China and the U.S. He is also a member of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong.

Over the years, Haipeng Li has been involved in various leadership programs, providing training as well as mentoring services. His research areas include information literacy, library management and diversity, leadership development, international librarianship and global collaboration. He is frequently invited to speak at library events and serves as a consultant for several academic libraries in China and the U.S.

Bob Fox has over 30 years experience in teaching and research in South East Asia, Australia and Great Britain. His research interests focus on teacher professional development; innovative use of technology; technological practice and change in higher education; change and leadership in technology supported educational innovation; learning places and environments.

More information can be found at http://people.cite.hku.hk/bfox/

Jody Beenk, Preservation & Conservation Librarian for HKUL, is responsible for developing and implementing a system-wide Preservation and Conservation program for nearly 3 million printed volumes and the libraries’ growing special and digital collections. In addition to managing an in-house conservation lab and bindery, she also partners with colleagues throughout the library system to preserve and provide access to library materials in all formats.

Before coming to Hong Kong in 2010, Jody was a rare book conservator at Princeton University. For eight years prior to that, she worked in both general and special collections conservation at Harvard University. Jody holds an MA from the University of Iowa, and a Certificate in Preservation Management from Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. She has recently served on committees for the American Institute for Conservation and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Guild of Book Workers.

Yimin Wang is SciVal Consultant for the regions of China, India and Korea, supporting the customers by providing data driven solutions with consulting services. Before joining Elsevier, he worked in Eli Lilly Singapore in the field of bioinformatics. He also worked as a Research Associate in University of Karlsruhe (KIT) in Germany after getting Master degree at University of Manchester in UK. He is an expert in data analysis and information management, serving various professional communities such as W3C and IEEE.