Information Literacy Education of Higher Education in Asian Countries

Chao-Chen Chen is a Chair Professor of Center for General Education and serves as the University Librarian of Chung Yuan Christian University, and a Emeritus Professor, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies,

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). She has served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs and University Librarian of NTNU, the President of Taiwan Profession Organization Development Network in Higher Education (TPOD). Based on her long-term engagement in developing students' learning and teachers' teaching, Prof. Chen has become an expert of the learning sciences in higher education. She has participated in the National Digital Archives Program of Taiwan over 10 years and has served as principal investigators (PI) for Teacher Librarian Training Projects of Taiwan over 12 years. She is the editor-in-chief of the Excellence in Higher Education Series of Taiwan Higher Education Press, and the editor-in-chiefof the Springer Series on Learning Sciences in Higher Education. These two series have published 7 books so far. Prof. Chen has also published over 100 academic journal articles and related monographs on knowledge organization, reading research, information literacy, and digital libraries.

Mei-Ling Wang is professor of the Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival Studies, National ChengChi University, and served as chairperson from 2007 to 2009 and CEO of E-learning Master Program of Library and Information Studies. She was director of Hsuang-Chuan University Library in 1999-2000. She received the PhD. And MA degrees in Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University, and BA in Library Science from the National Taiwan University. She is author of 4 books and more than 100 articles and technical reports covering international study on library and information science education, information literacy instruction, distance and online education, library evaluation, collection mangement. She also serves on the editorial board of library and information science related journals, including: (1) Journal of library and information science; (2) Journal of library and information studies.

Dr. Chu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He has obtained 2 PhDs in Education - one focusing on e-Learning from University College London, Institute of Education and another one focusing on Information and Library Science from HKU. His areas of expertise include AI literacy, gamified learning, 21st Century Skills, and Social Media in Education. He has involved in over 70 research projects with a total funding of US$ 10,214,144. He has published more than 400 articles and books, with over 120 of them appearing in international academic journals. Dr. Chu has received many awards including the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award in 2013, Faculty's Knowledge Exchange Award in 2016 and Excellent Health Promotion Project Award from Food and Health Bureau in 2017. He's ranked among the top 1% of scholars in research Information & Library Sciences (PLoS Biol 18(10), 2020, a study by Stanford University), and achieved an h-index of 42 over the years. He has been a Consultant for UNESCO Bangkok, Education Bureau in HK, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education Asia, and was the ASIS&T Director of Chapter Assembly (2020-2021). He is also an Advisor for EdTech startups at HK Science and Technology Parks and the Founding Chairman of Academy 22 Education for All Foundation.

Emi Ishita is a Professor at Kyushu University (Japan), with appointments in the Department of Library Science and Data Driven Innovation Initiative. She currently serves as the iSchool representative for Kyushu University. Dr. Ishita earned her Ph.D in Information Science from Kyushu University and her Master of Information Science from the University of Library and Information Science (Japan). Her research interests include application of text analysis to genre classification, computational archival science and computational social science, and Library and Information Science education. In computational social science research, her project team is working on reducing human annotation effort for content analysis. She has recently started some new work on research data curation in universities.

Kulthida TUAMSUK, D.A. in library and information science, Simmons College, USA., a professor and a senior researcher at the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Director of Smart Learning Innovation Research Centre, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. Dr. Tuamsuk is well-known as an active committee and a member of national and international organizations and consortiums in Thailand and Asia Pacific. Besides her works in the field of library and information science, she has been involved with higher education development in Thailand and Southeast. She has more than 70 research publications in the international indexed journals in the areas of digital humanities, information and digital literacy, knowledge management, knowledge organization, and smart and lifelong learning.

Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science, College of Computing, Informatics and Media, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia with 23 years of teaching experience and was the Deputy Dean of Academic and Internationalization. She received B.Sc.in Accounting - Hull University, United Kingdom, in 1998, M.Sc. in Information Management - Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia and Ph.D in Business Information Systems (Information Storage & Retrieval), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Apart from herteaching duty, she also actively acts as an expert advisor and researcher especially in school libraries management, information literacy and knowledge management. She is involved with the International Association of School Library (IASL) activities and has been a Chair of the 3rd Regional Workshop on School Library in 2017. In the year of 2018 contributed as a head of editor in translating the School Library Guidelines in Malay Language for The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She collaborates with schools in Malaysia for the development of the Information Literacy Module, School Resource Centre Management workshop, involved with the International Research Grant of Indigenous Knowledge and has been appointed as Steering Committee by National Library, Malaysia in developing the National Agenda of Information Literacy.

陳昭珍教授是中原大學通識教育中心的講座教授，並擔任中原大學圖書館館長，以及國立臺灣師範大學圖書資訊學研究所的名譽教授。她曾擔任國立臺灣師範大學學務副校長和圖書館館長，以及臺灣高等教育專業發展網絡（TPOD）的主席。基於她長期參與學生學習和教師教學的工作，陳教授成為高等教育學習科學的專家。她參與臺灣國家數位典藏計畫超過10年，並擔任臺灣教師圖書館員培訓計畫的主持人超過12年。她是臺灣高等教育出版社《卓越高等教育系列》的主編，以及Springer《高等教育學習科學系列》的主編。這兩個系列迄今已出版了7本書。陳教授還發表了100多篇關於知識組織、閱讀研究、資訊素養和數位圖書館的學術期刊文章和相關專著。

王美玲是國立政治大學圖書資訊與檔案學研究所的教授，並於2007年至2009年擔任該所主任，以及圖書資訊學習電子學碩士學程的執行長。她曾於1999年至2000年擔任翔傳大學圖書館館長。她在國立臺灣大學獲得圖書資訊學博士和碩士學位，並在國立臺灣大學獲得圖書館學學士學位。她是4本書的作者，並發表了100多篇關於國際圖書資訊科學教育、資訊素養教學、遠距與線上教育、圖書館評估和館藏管理的文章和技術報告。她還擔任圖書資訊科學相關期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括：(1)《圖書資訊學報》；(2)《圖書資訊學刊》。

朱博士是香港大學教育學院的副教授。他在倫敦大學學院教育學院獲得了一個關於電子學習的博士學位，並在香港大學獲得了一個關於資訊與圖書館科學的博士學位。他的專業領域包括AI素養、遊戲化學習、21世紀技能和教育中的社交媒體。他參與了超過70個研究項目，總資助金額達到10,214,144美元。他發表了400多篇文章和書籍，其中超過120篇發表在國際學術期刊上。朱博士獲得了許多獎項，包括2013年傑出研究員獎、2016年學院知識交流獎和2017年食物與健康局優秀健康促進項目獎。他在斯坦福大學的研究中被評為研究資訊與圖書館科學領域的前1%（PLoS Biol 18(10), 2020），並在多年間達到了h指數42。他曾擔任聯合國教科文組織曼谷辦事處、香港教育局、牛津大學出版社、培生教育亞洲等的顧問，並擔任ASIS&T章程委員會主任（2020-2021年）。他還是香港科技園的EdTech初創企業顧問和Academy 22 Education for All Foundation的創始主席。

石田惠美是九州大學（日本）圖書館學系和數據驅動創新計劃的教授。她目前擔任九州大學的iSchool代表。石田博士在九州大學獲得了信息科學博士學位，並在日本圖書館情報大學獲得了信息科學碩士學位。她的研究興趣包括文本分析的應用。