Prof. Dr. Sezer Şener Komsuoğlu is a Medical Doctor, Neurology and Neurophysiology Specialist.
She completed her medical and specialization education in Atatürk, Ankara and Hacettepe University.
She had worked in Neurophysiology at Birmingham University and Aston University in the UK for 3,5 years. In Turkey, she had worked in Karadeniz Teknik University and Kocaeli University. Between 2006 and 2014, she was elected and appointed as the Rector of Kocaeli University for 8 years.
She has over 250 international and national scientific publications in the field of Neurologic Sciences. She is the author of the first EEG atlas in Turkey and she has 6 books in field of neurology. She also studies woman in academia and gender equality. 
She is elected as one of the 19 board member to research and innovation comitte at European University Association (EUA) since 2016.
Also she is elected as one of the three scientists women from Turkey in Women Scientist book which has published by Oxford University.
Dr. Sezer Komsuoglu is married to Prof. Dr. Baki Komsuoglu and mother of Prof. Dr. Aysegul K. Cıtıpıtıoglu and Assoc. Prof. Feride Ipek K. Celikyurt.
She is currently Advisor to the President of the Council of Higher Education.

After graduating from Hacettepe University, Department of Library Sciences in 1986, Dr. Hamza Kandur completed his masters at Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Library Archives and Information Studies, and his PhD at University College London, School of Library Archives and Information Studies, with his thesis “Electronic Records Management”. After completing his postgraduate studies Dr. Kandur returned to Turkey and took up a post as a lecturer at Marmara University.

Dr. Kandur became an Associate Professor at Marmara University in 1998. In 2006 Dr. Kandur became a full professor and is the head of the Information and Records Management Department at Marmara University. Between 2010 and 2104, He was worked as the Vice-Rector of Marmara University and represented Marmara University at the Inter-University Board from 2011 until 2015. In 2018, he is appointed as the Vice-Rector of Antalya Bilim University and moved to Antalya. Main research areas are in Electronic Records Management, Records Management Standards and E-Government.

Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz graduated from the Department of Librarianship, Faculty of Letters at Hacettepe University. He worked as a specialist at Gazi University Library. He got Master’s and PhD degrees at the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University where he received the title of Assistant Professor in 1998, Associate Professor in 2000 and Professor in 2005. He conducted international projects and researches as part of National Agency and European Union. He visited various countries for the purpose of scientific events. He has organized Public Libraries Regional Seminars since 2006. He is a member of referee board of some academic journals. He was Vice President of Turkish Librarians’ Association, President of Turkish Librarians’ Association Intellectual Freedom Group, member of Turkish Librarians’ Association Professional Ethics Group, editor of Turkish Librarianship journal and assistant editor of Information World journal. He is still a lecturer at the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University. He teaches and continues his studies on the topics as communication, professional ethics, Anatolian civilizations, information society, information politics, public libraries, reading culture, digitization and organization of information. 

Murat Arısal was born in Malatya in 1970. After graduating from Marmara University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Constructional Engineering, he completed his master’s degree at Marmara University, Social Sciences Institute, Department of Economics in 2001 and has been currently working on his PhD in the Economics Department of Marmara University. 

His fields of expertise are the feasibility, financial and economic analysis specialist, transportation planning, rail systems project and management, qualified building works. In 1998, he began his career in İstanbul transportation Inc. as a project engineer, then, he continued to serve there in management position at various stages.

Between 2010-2012, he worked as both an instructor  and head of construction and technical affairs department at İnonü University.  He also served as a superstructure advisor in Üsküdar Municipality between 2010-2016. After his appointment at İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality İstanbul Electric Tramway and Tunnel Establishments where he was the head of construction affairs, he was assigned to the General Secretary of Marmara University in August 2018.

Leslin H. Charles has special interest in student engagement, metacognition, information literacy, and assessment of student learning. At Rutgers University, Leslin leads the libraries’ efforts to develop pedagogically sound learning experiences and appropriate assessment strategies in collaboration with librarians, teaching faculty, and relevant campus partners. In 2015, through the ACRL Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success program, she developed a longitudinal study of library impact on student learning with special focus on students in the McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program.
She is the recipient of the 2018 Faculty Award for Outstanding Generosity and Commitment to Students, from the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Rutgers University. At her previous institution she was recognized as the Associate of the Year for Innovation, 2012 for developing an information literacy curriculum map. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (2007) and ACRL Assessment Immersion Program (2009). Leslin currently works with a wide range of undergraduate students including the Mountainview Seminar, Byrne Seminars, McNair Summer Research Institute, and English Composition and Writing. 
She currently serves as the 2018-2019 Past President, ACRL NJ/NJLA College & University Section organization.

He was born in 1960 in Giresun province, Turkey. He graduated from Faculty of Agriculture at Çukurova University in 1983. He completed his master's and doctoral degrees in the Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences at Cukurova University in 1985 and 1990, respectively.

Between 1995 and 2000, he worked as the vice director at the Computer Sciences Research and Application Center of Çukurova University; and worked as the director of the same center and the head of the Department of Informatics between 2000-2004. He is currently working as a full professor at  Biometrics and Genetics Unit of Faculty of Agriculture, Çukurova University.
He is the developer of various statistical packages and software in R and Python programming languages. He conducts the researches on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture, food and environment in addition to bioinformatics and metadata and semantics.

Born in Çankırı in 1974, M Hasan Atasoy completed his primary and second education in Çankırı. He graduated from Middle East Technical University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and started his career at Interbank Inc. Aside from being a banker he also served in management consultation and energy sectors. Since 2012 he has served as Atılım University Strategy and Business Development Coordinator and simulatenously as International Relations Director of the same university.

Simon Beard is a chartered librarian and teacher with over 30 years experience working in and managing academic libraries in the UK, including nurse education, universities, colleges and adult education. Over the past 15 years he has combined this with managing the development of technology enhanced or blended learning. Particular interests include assistive technology; Moodle administration; online resources / e-libraries. 
Currently the Head of Library and Learning Innovation at Coventry University London where he leads a multi-disciplinary team of library, learning technology and English language staff supporting a university community of staff and students from around the world. He also leads on the development of a digital strategy for teaching and learning, including developing the digital capabilities of both academic staff and students.

Having graduated from Hacettepe University Information and Document Management Department in 1995, Ebru Kaya worked as publication providing unit supervisor in Sabancı University Information Center between 1998-2002, deputy head of Middle East Technical University library between 2003-2006, deputy head of Bilkent University Library between 2006-2016. She did her masters degree in business management in 2003 and did her doctorate in information and document management at Hacettepe University in May 2017.
As a member of numerous professional associations, Ebru Kaya worked as the vice chairwoman of Turkish Librarians Association between 2004-2010. On top of this she is an active member of many organizations such as UNAK, AULC and LIBER. In addition, she is a member of many international Publisher boards.
Dr. Ebru Kaya has been working as the head of İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University library since 2016.

He has BS degree from Hacettepe University Faculty of Literature, Librarianship Department and MA degree from Kadir Has University Social Sciences Institute Finance & Banking Program. His current position is Library Director of MEF  University. His professional interests are; academic library management, library consortiums, license agreement for e-resources, library collaboration, resource sharing & document delivery. He is  the former president  of Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), coordinator of ANKOS Collaboration Working Group and ANKOS Academy Group, and Board Member of Turkish Librarianship Association. Currently he is the Information Coordinator of IFLA DDRSSC and editorial board member of Information discovery & Delivery (Emerald Publishing) and International Journal of Knowledge Management & Practices (IJKMP)  

Vanessa Proudman is Director of SPARC Europe; she is working to make Open the default in Europe. Vanessa has 20 years’ international experience working with many leading university libraries worldwide, with research institutions, international policy makers, together with information and IT professionals and designers from over 15 countries. She also headed information and IT at a UN-affiliated international research institution in Vienna for 10 years. She has also been programme and project manager to Europeana. She is also the owner of Proud2Know, a consultancy that supports the development of Europe’s academic libraries.

Sami Çuhadar completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Information and Document Management at Istanbul University and his BA in Economics at Anadolu University. He continues his PhD studies in Information and Document Management at Çankırı Karatekin University.

Sami Cukadar is the Library Director at Istanbul Bilgi University Library and e-Resources in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also an academic staff at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and teaches “Research Methods and Accessing Legal Information Resources” to the first year Law School students.

Mr. Çuhadar is also active in non-governmental organizations in the field of librarianship and information management. He is the former president and board member of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) and coordinator of UNAK-Turkish Platform of Law Librarians. He has written and made studies on fields of total quality management, distance learning and university libraries. His current research focuses on legal information, information literacy, distance education, university libraries, consortiums and ERM.

Gultekin Gurdal was graduated from Hacettepe University Library Science Program (currently the Information Management Program) in 1990 and completed his MBA degree from Kocaeli University.

He has been continuing to be the Library Director at Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE) since 2005. He has previously held positions at Bilkent University, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Sabanci University and TOBB University.

He served as the Chairman of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) between the years 2008 and 2012. He is recently working especially on the Open Access studies and after OpenAIREPlus that was completed at the end of December 2014 and OpenAIRE2020 that was completed at the end of June 2018 EC projects partner, he is now an OpenAIRE Advance project partner. Also, last year he was elected as one of the members of the Open Science Committee which was founded by The Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council. He is now an as one of the members of the Open Access and Open Science Working Group in Turkish Council of Higher Education.

He keeps active membership with the following organizations; Turkish Librarian’ Association (TKD), University and Research Librarians Association (UNAK), Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), The European Organisation for International Research Information (EuroCRIS), International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL).

He has many national and international publications. He is a close follower and practitioner of all kinds of scientific and technological development in the field of librarianship/information science.

Juja Chakarova, Max Planck Usül Hukuku Enstitüsü (MPI) kütüphane ve dökümantasyon daire başkanıdır. MPI kütüphanesini 2012’nin sonlarında sıfırdan kurmuştur. 2016’da LIKE’ı (MPI’da Yenilik, Bilgi ve Değişim Laboratuarı) yenilikçi fikirleri ki buna robotlar da dahildir, test etmek ve uygulamak üzere başlatmıştır.
 
Bundan önce 2009’da Hollanda Lahey’de Uluslararası Lübnan Özel Mahkemesi kütüphanesini kurmuştur ve Tanzanya Arusha’da Ruanda Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi kütüphanesinde çalışmıştır. Kütüphaneci, yazılım mühendisi ve elektronik bilgi yöneticisi geçmişiyle pek çok kütüphane otomasyon projesinde yer almıştır. Chakarova hanım, Bulgaristan Stara Zagora’da belediye enerji kurumu yöneticiliği yaparken enerji verimliliği, rüzgar enerjisi ve ultrafiltrasyon gibi yenilikçi projelere katkı yapmıştır.

She completed her  undergraduate and graduate education at Istanbul University Library Science Program.  
Ms. Ekingen has academic studies and publications in various national and international conferences on resource sharing and library collaboration in academic libraries, and s currently working in various associations in the field of librarianship such as the Turkish Librarians Association.
And still works in the ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium) as the database administrator and in the Cooperation Working Group at the same association.

Having graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Language and History Information and Document Management department in 1998, İsmail ÇETİNKAYA got his master’s degree from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Department of Business.

He worked as a researcher in Ministry of Forestry’s Forestry in Ottoman Times Research Project and publishing study, as a librarian in Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and as a lecturer inVan Yüzüncü Yıl University. He has been working as the head of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Library since 2006.

Between 2007-2008 he taught Membership in Science Board and information literacy lessons in the Running Projects in Primary and Secondary Education and Science Consultation Education Project (Science Consultation in Education Workshop) run by Department of TÜBİTAK Science Supporting People. In 2014 he was one of the writers of “Towards 2023, Current Status of University Libraries in Turkey, Problems, Standards and Solution Suggestions” report, a mission given by Council of Higher Education as a member of University Libraries Working Group (Improving University Libraries and Setting Standards).

Çetinkaya has worked as a member of AULC Board of Directors since 2010 and  has continued to share his professional knowledge and experiences by taking part in various national and international activities in Librarianship field.

Professor in Biomedical Engineering with more than 16 years of experience in R&D, Research leadership, Innovation and Strategies in Academia, Government and Corporate. At Clarivate Analytics, he is currently working with regional Governments, Universities and Research Centers to boost research and innovation.  
Dr. Hassan is an active researcher on tomographic reconstruction for emission and transmission data, medical instrumentation and biomedical signal processing and full-band EEG signal analysis. He has published many scientific papers in journals of high repute and has notable experience in public health and healthcare quality control and management as well as research and education assessment and strategic planning.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/walid-hassan-phd-62b70845/

He graduated Ankara University Librarianship Department of Faculty of Language and History Geography in 1994. He started his job as an Expert in Trakya University Diroctorate of Library & Documentation. He has been working as deputy chairman since 2016.

She has a BS degree in Mathematics from Koc University and was awarded a full scholarship during her studies.  After graduation, she worked in the insurance sector and completed a master’s degree in Actuarial Science in the United States.  She entered the library field and finished her master’s degree in the nation’s top-ranking Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois.  She worked in multiple library units and participated in several special projects during her education.  Her current job title is: Collection Analysis and Planning Specialist at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, which has the second largest collection among state university libraries in North America.  She works on electronic resource usage and cost per use studies, collection data analysis and visualization, library budget analysis and projections.  She teaches Tableau Data Analysis Software workshops at her university and at conferences.  She is a member of the American Library Association.

Sabina Aneva is a philologist and an expert in Library Studies and data base management. She was granted an MA in Bulgarian Philology and History by the Sofia University (1984). Her specialised training was at the National Library in Sofia (1984-1985) and in the International Center for Information Management Systems and Services (ICIMSS) in Torun, Poland. S. Aneva works in the field of Library and Information Technologies and Digital Libraries and prepares expert analyses of the existing library systems. She was a deputy director of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences between 1995 and 2012 and a deputy executive director at the NALIS Foundation between 2009 and 2015. S. Aneva is a member of the Bulgarian Library and Information Association (BLIA) and ICIMSS. At NALIS, her main responsibility is to deal with the integrated library system for the management of print collections used by two of the NALIS founders (i.e. ALEPH), teaches system librarians in MARC 21 and Koha and coordinates the NALIS associate members.

Ayhan Tuğlu was born in Develi, Kayseri in 1971. He graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Letters Librarianship Department in 1993 and in the same year he started working as an expert librarian in Marmara University Library. He received his master’s degree from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Administration and Organization Department. He managed the phases to automation system of the library, cataloging and classificatons and purchasing within the library. In August 1999 he resigned from Marmara University and started working in, newly founded at the time, Bahçeşehir University Library. After the expert and the deputy head of the library positions, he resigned in November 2010 and started working as the head of the library in Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University. Aside from his various positions in the university he has also worked as deputy secretary general for 1,5 years. Per the request of presidency of the republic, he started working as the Director of Libraries and Publication. He has been working as the Head of Libraries since August 2018.

Tuna Can completed her bachelor’s degree Hacettepe  University Faculty of Letter  Department of Library Science in 2004. In 2006, She started to work at Ankara  University Library and Documentation Department . She has been working as the Director of Library and Documentation Department since 2017

Elmedina ABDULAHİ is the coordinator and reference librarian of ‘Max van der Stoel’ library at South East European University in Tetovo, Macedonia. She holds a MA in Public Administration from the same university, and is also a licensed librarian by the National University Library 'Snt. Klimet Ohridski' Skopje, and CNRS Luminy University, Marseille- France.   
She has successfully taken part in numerous conferences and professional training in USA and Europe. In addition, she has helped in founding the library at IBU, Skopje and also has given consultations to develop other libraries in the region.
She has a keen interest in environmental and social issues and thus participates as board member in various organizations

Murat Gezer received BSci degree in 1997 from the Ege University Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences.  He completed his Master's degree at the Department of Informatics, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Istanbul University in 2014.  Since 2011, he has been working as a lecturer in the Department of Informatics at Istanbul University. He gives seminars and training about Linux, Computer vision and Machine Learning at events organized by various organizations. His detailed academic studies are available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Murat_Gezer.

Serra Çelik took her Phd in Quantitative Methods Department at School of Business in Istanbul University. She is currently works in Department of  Informatics in Istanbul University. She previously worked on customer relations area. Especially she has gained experiences on call center operations, telesales, e-commerce,  and call center monitoring/reporting. She also worked as web editor and web analyst in several web sites including news website. Serra’s reasearch topics are multivariate data analysis, statistical learning, data science, and digital transformation. She has a web site addressed serra.ist which is reflection of her digital universe.

Ivona OLARIU   M. Eminescu" Central University Library Head of the Exact Sciences Department Deputy National Coordinator of the Romanian EDC Network

I am one of the initiators of the establishment of the first Romanian consortium for the acquisition of the electronic scientific resources at national level to support research and education in Romania (Anelis Plus).

I am also Deputy National Coordinator of the European Documentation Centres Network in Romania.

I was a member of a Pan-European Working Group on developing electronic repositories for the EDC network, 2010-2011; of the Pan-European Working Group for e-books, social media and electronic repositories for the EDCs, 2012, and also of the Pan-European Working Group 2015 – Looking to the future (Europe Direct).

I coordinate  the activity  of the 13 central university library’s branches.

I am the president of Statistics and Evaluation Section of the Romanian Library Association.

I have a PhD in Chemistry and another one in Library and Information Science. I teach Introduction to Information and Library Science within Faculties of Letters and History at University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi.

I participate in national and European research projects and in national and international conferences in this field.

Lluís Anglada is director of Open Science in the CSUC (Consortium of Services for the Universities of Catalonia). Before, he was director of the CBUC (Consortium of Catalan Academic Libraries), the director of the Catalonia Technical University Libraries, and professor at the Faculty of Librarianship (Barcelona University).

Member of the Board of SPARC Europe and co-chair of the LIBER’s Working Group on Open Access; previously, member of the OCLC’s Global Council and of the LIBER Board. Member of the ProQuest EDT Advisory Board and of Wiley European Customer Advisory Board.

Member of the Spanish Commission for monitoring Open Access; also member of the advisory boards of the Faculty of Librarianship (Barcelona University). Previously, President of the ANECA Committee for the quality certification for university libraries (2003-2005), member of the Executive Board of the Spanish association of academic libraries directors - Rebiun (1993-97), President of the VTLS España User’s Group (1992-1995), Vice-president of the Libraries Association of Catalonia (1989-1992).  

He has published about 40 artícles and book chapters, included “Are libraries sustainable in a world of free, networked, digital information?” awarded in 2017 with the SCImago-EPI reward to the best article published in El Profesional de la información (EPI) in the period 2012-2016.

Shadi Awwad has an educational background in Chemistry and Health Policy & Research from the University of Minnesota. Shadi has worked in national policy and organizational development at the Executive Offices of His Majesty the King of Jordan, and business development within the private sector.  

Joining Elsevier in 2014, Shadi is the senior regional expert managing Elsevier’s Research Intelligence portfolio in Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Romania and Bulgaria. He also has a diverse heritage and cultural background, calling both the USA and Jordan his home. He is married to Sema, originally from Izmir, Turkey, and has two daughters, Jayda and Ayla. He is an avid underwater diver, and has a passion for exploring coral reefs and wreckages around the world.