Paul Gandel is a professor in the School of Information Studies. 

Previously he served as the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Syracuse University.  As Chief Information Officer he was responsible for all aspects for information technology and information service--computer services, voice and data networking, instructional services, business process improvement, and distance learning.  During his tenure as CIO he was instrumental in modernizing the University's technology infrastructure and IT support services to ensure that SU remain competitive with the growing demands of providing high-quality information resources for research, teaching, and student learning environments.  He was also responsible for initiating and developing the Green Data Center at Syracuse, one of the "greenest" data centers in the world. 

Before coming to Syracuse University, Gandel was Vice Provost and Dean of Libraries at University of Rhode Island. Before Rhode Island, Gandel was Associate Provost and Chief Information Officer at the Ohio University, Senior Director of Academic Computing and Associate Professor of Library Science at the University of North Texas, Supervisor of the Computing Technology Group at Bell Laboratories, Head of Media Services at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and Director of the Research Library at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He has also done work internationally as a Senior Consultant and Interim CIO for Singapore Management University.

Gandel has made presentations and published on topics related to the management of information systems, library administration and services, software engineering, and visualization of information.

Dr. Gandel has a Ph.D. in Information Studies from Syracuse University, an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.F.A. in Photography and B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Peter Sidorko (http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01299) has enjoyed a career in academic libraries spanning thirty years and is currently the University Librarian at The University of Hong Kong (HKU).  In this position he has full responsibility for leading and directing all aspects of the HKU Libraries network of 6 libraries.  Peter is a past Chair of JULAC (the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee http://www.julac.org/), a forum to discuss, coordinate, and collaborate on library information resources and services among the libraries of the eight tertiary education institutions funded by the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong. 

Peter is also a past President-elect of the Hong Kong Library Association, serving from 2011-2012.  He holds several honorary international positions: he is a member of the Board of Directors of CLOCKSS; a past Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Council Executive Committee of OCLC (2013-2014); a member of the OCLC Global Council (2011-2015); Vice-President/President Elect of the OCLC Global Council (2015-2017); a former Board member of the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations); a member of the Elsevier Asia-Pacific Library Advisory Board (ALAB) (2014-); the Proquest Asian Regional Advisory Board, (February 2016-); the Wiley Publishing Asia Pacific Library Advisory Board, (May 2016-); and a past member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Rim Research (formerly Digital) Library Alliance (PRRLA, formerly PRDLA).  His research interests include library management and leadership, user behaviours, information literacy and learning spaces and he has published in these areas. He has also presented at almost 100 conferences and seminars, several of which have been published as proceedings. 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 17th year of operation. Peter was also a Faculty member of the Educause Australasian Leadership Institute between 2001 and 2003.

Long W. “Rico” Lam is Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Macau. Rico is currently doing research on felt trust, workplace incivility, proactive behaviors, and dirty work. His research has appeared or been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Ethics, etc. His work on trust and dirty work was also published in the Handbook of Chinese Organizational Behavior in 2012. Rico is currently Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Advisory Editor of Journal of Human Resource Management in Taiwan, and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Trust Research and Editorial Board of the Frontiers of Business Research in China. Rico was Vice President of the Asia Academy of Management during 2013-15 and was the Conference Co-Program Chair of the 2015 Joint Conference of the Asia and Taiwan Academy of Management. Rico holds a Ph.D. in management from the University of Oregon.

Miguel Escobar Varela is a theatre researcher, web developer and translator. In his research, he applies computational methods to study Indonesian theatre and codes interactive platforms to share theatre scholarship online. He is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Academic Advisor on Digital Scholarship to the NUS Libraries. He directs the Contemporary Wayang Archive (cwa-web.org) and convenes the informal Digital Humanities Singapore group (digitalhumanities.sg). A list of his writings and digital projects is available at miguelescobar.com.

Esther Woo (http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01436) is the Deputy University Librarian / Fung Ping Shan Librarian at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to taking on this role, she was the Associate Librarian, Engagement and Lending Services and Associate Librarian, Administrative Services at HKU. Esther is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong (B.A. and M.P.A.) and the McGill University (Dip.M. and M.L.I.S.). On top of her over twenty years of management experience in finance, human and space resources in HKU and the Hong Kong Government, Esther has participated in the project management of many major library systems and renovation works. She had served as Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Library Association and is now an External Examiner of the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. Her research interests include learning spaces, customer services, user behaviours, staff engagement, and library leadership.

Melissa has been the Assistant Librarian (Patron Experience) at HKUL in the Lending Services Division since 2016. She supports lending services including circulation, membership, interbranch and interlibrary delivery services, physical collections management, storage, and more. She supports user experience research studies to help the Library learn about user behaviour.