Steven Chong is currently the Academic Sales and Marketing Director, Asia, at Cambridge University Press. The Press dates from 1534 and is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Steven is responsible for the regional sales and marketing activities of the Press’s Academic print, eBooks and journals business in Asia. He is also a member of the Cambridge Global Academic Board and Asia Board of Management. He started his career in publishing in 1995, and has held various sales, marketing and business development positions dealing with the academic, higher education, international school, retail and corporate eLearning sectors. He has previously worked at Cengage Learning, Pearson Education, CCH and Addison-Wesley Longman.

Michael Levine-Clark is the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communications and Collections Services at the University of Denver’s Penrose Library. He has an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, and an MA in History from the University of Iowa. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, he founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and serves as co-editor for scholarly articles.

He has served as chair of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), has been a member or chair of many committees within RUSA and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), and has served on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards.  He is currently serving as the co-chair of a NISO working group to develop recommended practices for Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs and as the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 4th edition.

He writes and speaks regularly on strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries and the development of demand-driven acquisition models.

Ms Chun-ching Liang has been working in acquistions department of NTU Library since 2004. Her responsibilities include budget control, acquisitions of books and audiovisual materials, gift and exchange.As a member of TAEBDC (Taiwan Academic E-Book and Database Consortium) steering team, her interest areas are ebook related issues and consortium purchase. From January 1st, 2013, because of job rotation, Ms Liang transferred to be director of NTU Medical Library.

As Head of Collection Development at the University of Hong Kong since 2002, Gayle articulates a vision of collection services that align with the academic directions of the university.  Within the Libraries’ matrix structure, she works across the library teams to reposition the fiscal and collections strategies to align with 21st century scholarly communication and e-learning trends, implementing new models of acquisitions, access and sharing of scholarly contents.   With an oversight of an annual materials budget of about US$12 million, her team is responsible to advance sustainable strategies in a collaborative and robust environment for the access and delivery of scholarly contents and knowledge resources to support academic programs and global scholarship.  

Gayle chairs a university wide faculty advisory committee that guides the development and funding of the digital collections.  She also serves in the Libraries Quality Assurance Team and the Senior Management Team in the planning and execution of strategic priorities. 

Her research interests include topics on scholarly communication and its impact on collection development, materials budget planning, return on investment, shifting role of collection development librarians, knowledge exchange and knowledge management for student learning and faculty research.

Elaine Tham, Associate Publisher, has been with Cambridge University Press since 2009 where she is responsible for developing Cambridge's journals presence in Asia-Pacific. With previous editorial roles at World Scientific and Springer, Elaine has developed textbooks, academic monographs, reference works as well as journals.