Academic Library Development and Administration in China (Advances in Library and Information Science)

Qiang Zhu is the Library Director at Peking University, as well as the Deputy Director of the Administrative Center of the China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS), and the Director of the Administrative Center of the China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library (CASHL). He is also Vice President of the Library Society of China and Chair of the Academic Library Branch, and a member of the FAIFE Committee, IFLA, ASIS&T, CALA, ALA, and the American Society of Information Science. He has been the Editor in Chief of Academic Libraries Journal since 1999, and an Editorial Board Member of Library Management since 2005. He is also the Chair of the National Library and Information Committee for Universities and Colleges under the Ministry of Education of China. He was a visiting scholar in the East Asia & Pacific Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from September, 1994 through July, 1995. Mr. Zhu has published more than 80 papers in the areas of academic library management, library automation, and resource-sharing systems.

Fred Y. Ye is currently a professor at Nanjing University, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a life-long member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), and a member of the editorial committees of the Journal of Informetrics, the Journal of Data and Information Science, and more. From September 2000 to September 2001, Dr. Ye was a Fulbright research scholar at the University of Arizona and the University of Michigan in the United States. Before joining the staff at Nanjing University, Dr. Ye was Dean of the Department of Information Resource Management at Zhejiang University (2002-2012) and Associate University Librarian at Zhejiang University (1997-2000). His research interests focus on scientific metrics and his present contributions concentrate on h-type metrics for network analysis, unified informetric mechanisms described by wave-heat equations, and scientific metrics in physics, economics, and multidisciplinary fields.