The Council

Mr Benjamin MEUNIER Chair University Librarian The Chinese University of Hong Kong

I am responsible for providing leadership to the staff and university community on CUHK Library’s future direction to provide excellent service to our students and researchers, both in our physical spaces and through digital services. I am also responsible for developing collaborative relationships with major stakeholders, strengthening the collections of the library and facilitating the transition to an open scholarship culture at CUHK.

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Prof. Zhang Jing Vice Chair University Librarian Sun Yat-sen University

Director of the Academic Committee, School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University; Vice Dean of the National Institute for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Development (a base of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism); Director of the National Reading Research Center (Guangdong Provincial Base). Enlisted in the National Major Talent Program (Youth Program) and the Leading Talents Program of the Guangdong Special Support Program. Chief Expert of a National Social Science Fund Major Project; Lead Instructor of a National First-Class Course. Honored as a “Nanyue Excellent Teacher” of Guangdong Province, and recognized as a "Distinguished Teacher" at both the Guangdong Provincial level and Sun Yat-sen University. Member of the IFLA Advisory Committee on Ethics and the IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section; Deputy Director of the Academic Research Committee of the Library Society of China; Vice President of the Guangdong Library Society. Research areas: public cultural governance and services; children’s reading promotion; preservation and management of ancient books and documentary heritage; foundations of library and information science.

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Prof. Hong Xu (Helen) Vice Chair University Librarian University of Macau

She is currently the University Librarian of the University of Macau Library. She served as the University Librarian of Duke Kunshan University Library， Associate University Librarian at Duke University Libraries, adjunct professor at the School of Information Management, Central China Normal University. She also served as Associate University Librarian at the City University of Hong Kong Library and Head of the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh, and taught at universities in China and the United States. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in library science from Wuhan University, an M.A. in educational psychology and a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research areas include user research, bibliometrics, library information science education, library management, etc.