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Gayle Chan

University of Hong Kong
Head of Collections

As Head of Collection Development at the University of Hong Kong, 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.