He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Istanbul-Üsküdar. He pursued his university education at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History between 1985-1989. In October 1988, he began working as an Archive Officer at the Presidential Ottoman Archives. He completed his Master's degree in 1994 and his Doctorate in 2001 at Istanbul University. In September 1993, he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of History at Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After completing his doctoral education, he started working as a faculty member in the Department of Archival Studies at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters. In May 2004, he was appointed as the Head of Department at the Presidential Ottoman Archives Department. Following the end of his duty at the Prime Ministry, he started working at Marmara University. He currently continues his duty as the Head of Library and Documentation Department at Marmara University. Önder Bayır has 6 published books, 4 chapter authorships, and more than 50 published articles.

Susanne Aerni is Head of Consortial Services and a member of the Executive Board at the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP). She leads the office of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) which provides Swiss universities, research institutions, and other academic organisations with access to electronic information resources by negotiating and managing licences on their behalf. Her team supports the member institutions throughout the licensing lifecycle and provides services around Open Access.

She is closely involved in the strategic development of consortial services and the development and implementation of Switzerland’s approach to transformative agreements and Open Access. As process owner for Switzerland’s national Big Deal negotiations on behalf of swissuniversities, she has contributed to the development of national negotiation mandates and governance structures and to negotiations with major international publishers.

Before joining SLSP, she held various roles in market research/business information, primarily at strategy consultancies with a personal focus on telecommunications and media. She graduated in English and German Studies at University of Zurich.

Ertuğrul Çimen has a BS from Hacettepe University Faculty of Literature, Librarianship Department, and an MA from Kadir Has University, Social Sciences Institute, Finance, and Banking Program. His current position is the library director of MEF University.

His professional interests are academic library management, library consortia, license agreements for e-resources, library collaboration, resource sharing, document delivery, lifelong learning, and staff exchange programs for librarians.

He has held active roles in NGOs and professional organizations at both national and international levels. Ertuğrul Çimen currently serves as the Chair of the IFLA Regional Council and is a Member of the IFLA Governing Board. He is an editorial board member of the Information Discovery and Delivery Journal (Emerald Publishing).

In the past, he served as: President of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), Executive Board Member of the Turkish Librarians Association (TLA), Information Coordinator and Secretary of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee, Information Coordinator of the IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Board, Chair of the IFLA Europe Regional Division Committee, and a Member of the IFLA Regional Council, Coordinator of the Sustainable Libraries Standing Committee of the University and Research Library Association (UNAK). He has published articles, presentations, book chapters, and research papers in different languages, such as English, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, and Turkish.

Dr. Burak Beygirci is the Director of the Library and Documentation Department and the Coordinator of Scientific Publications at Bartın University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Information and Records Management at Ankara University’s Faculty of Languages, History and Geography. He subsequently completed his master’s degree at Çankırı Karatekin University and earned his PhD in Information and Records Management from Ankara University.

Dr. Beygirci began his professional career in 2015 as a librarian at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, where he assumed various responsibilities in cataloguing and classification, technical services, library automation systems, and the coordination of branch libraries. He joined Bartın University in 2018 and served as a lecturer between 2018 and 2023. During this period, he undertook a range of responsibilities, particularly in technical services, electronic resource management, bibliometric analysis, and library administration. Since 2023, he has served as Director of the Library and Documentation Department. He has also taught courses on cataloguing and bibliometrics in the Department of Information and Records Management at Bartın University since 2021.

Between 2016 and 2025, Dr. Beygirci served as a database liaison for various electronic resources within the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS). He has been a member of the ANKOS Executive Board since 2025. His academic and professional interests include university libraries, open access, electronic resource management, scholarly communication, bibliometric analysis, cataloguing and classification, and scholarly publishing.