Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson is the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. The University Libraries ranks among the largest and most innovative academic libraries in the United States with collections of more than 7 million volumes. From 1992 through 2000, she was the Associate Director of Libraries for Research and Instructional Services at the University of Washington. Prior to joining the University of Washington in 1992, she was the Assistant Director of Libraries for Undergraduate and Instructional Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Betsy Wilson has published and presented widely on information literacy, teaching, learning, and technology; educational collaborations; and assessment and evaluation. She has held numerous leadership positions in the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries, including chair of the ACRL Instruction Section, member of ALA Council, and ACRL President (2000-2001). She helped establish the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy which is "dedicated to playing a leadership role in assisting individuals and institutions in integrating information literacy throughout the educational process."

She is chair of the Board of Trustees of OCLC, a nonprofit, membership organization serving over 55,000 libraries and knowledge institutions worldwide and dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.

She currently is a member of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Board, and has served on the Association of Research Libraries Board and the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance and member of the Executive Committee of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

She is the recipient of the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, the Margaret E. Monroe Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. With her UWired colleagues, she received the inaugural EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. Her library was selected as the 2004 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award recipient. She holds an M.L.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from Northwestern University.

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Paula Kaufman is the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position she has held since 1999, with a break in 2006/07 when she served as the University’s Interim Chief Information Officer. Before joining the faculty at Illinois, she spent eleven years as Dean of Libraries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Prior to taking that position she served the Columbia University Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head of the East Asia Libraries, and Head of the Business Library. She also has considerable experience in the private sector, at McKinsey and Company and as co-founder and partner of Information for Business.

Dean Kaufman has written and made presentations on a number of issues pertaining to Library ROI, scholarly information, privacy, copyright, research libraries, recruitment, and leadership.  Her recent presentations include “Let’s Get Cozy: Evolving Collaborations in the 21st Century.”; “Carpe Diem: Seizing Opportunities From Crisis;” “University Investment in the Library: What’s the Return?  A Case Study at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;”   “Service is Sovereign: The Future of Academic Research Libraries;”   “Role and Mission of Academic Libraries: Present and Future;” “Everything Old is New Again, or is It?” and “Quo Vadis? Scholarly Communication and Trends in Research Libraries.”

Among her recent publications are Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth-Seeking Versus Christian Values in Pre-Civil War America,  co-authored with Ratner, Lorman A. and Teeter,  Dwight L., Jr.  Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press (in press); “The Library as Strategic Investment: Results of the Illinois Return on Investment Study.”  LIBER Quarterly, 18:3/4, 2008.  (http://liber.library.uu.nl/);  “It’s Not Your Parent’s Library Anymore: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Webs of Complexity.” Journal of Library Administration 46:1, 2007; “Copyright in the United States and Japan: Storming the Barriers to Access.”  in Marcum, Deanna and George, Jerry. Development of Digital Libaries: The View From Kanazawa.  Libraries Unlimited, 2006;  “9/11 Legislation and Technology: The Academic Impact,” with Peter Siegel Educause Review, Sept/Oct. 2002; "New Encroachments Recall Old Ones."  Library Journal October 1, 2002; “Where Do the Next ‘We’ Come From? Recruiting, Retaining, and Developing Our Successors,” ARL Bimonthly Report, April 2002; “Whose Good Old Days Are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age,” Journal of Library Administration 2001; "Looking Over Electronic Shoulders: Privacy in 21st Century Libraries" in The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, (Purdue University Press, 1999); and Structure and Crisis: Markets and Market Segmentation in Scholarly Publishing," In The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources in 21st University Universities by Hawkins, Brian and Battin, Patricia,  (CLIR and AAU, 1998).  

Dean Kaufman has served the profession with board memberships in the Center for Research Libraries (chair), the Association of Research Libraries (president), the Council on Library and Information Resources (chair), the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, the Illinois Computer Services Organization, the Research Libraries Group, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, CAUSE, and Solinet (chair).  She has served on numerous committees at the University of Illinois, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Columbia University, and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

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Thomas Leonard is University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a past president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the 125 North American institutions with the broadest mandate to preserve human knowledge.  Many of his contacts in Asia come through the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA).

At Berkeley Leonard made the institution an early partner with both Google Book Search and the HathiTrust.   Leonard led the Research Collections & Preservation committee of ARL and worked with libraries, archives, and museums as an elected board member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG).   He has also worked with Berkeley experts and the California Digital Library (CDL) on the challenges of preserving networked information and setting standards for digital holdings.Berkeley has opened a new Music Library, an East Asian Library, and the revitalized Bancroft Library (capital projects totaling more than $125 million) since Leonard took up his position in 2001.

A native of Detroit, Leonard received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  He took his Ph.D. in History from Berkeley.  Leonard taught American History at Columbia University and, since 1976, courses on the historical development of media at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and headed the Mass Communications group major.  

Among other works, Leonard is the author of Above the Battle: War-Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles (1978), The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting (1987) and News for All: America's Coming-of-Age with the Press (1995).

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Mr. Jack Huang is Regional Marketing Manager in Elsevier. He is responsible for academic and government market divisions in the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, ANZ and South East Asia. He works closely with the global e-resources team and data analysis group across over Elsevier to provide diversified services for international library communities, such as partnership building, on-line researcher campaigns as well as interlibrary engagement.

He ever served as Marketing Manager in the Department of Planning and Development at Chinese Culture University in Taiwan back in 2005.  He led the team in developing marketing activities for various business-field courses and programs.  Mr. Jack Huang has a MA in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. From 1998 to 2004, he ever worked as a TV and radio journalist to develop feature story reports for international news programs.

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