Co-organized by the University Library System of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Run Run Shaw Library of City University of Hong Kong, an international conference titled "Emerging Paradigms for Academic Library E-Book Acquisition and Use: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities" was successfully held on June 3, 2008 at Cho Yiu Conference Hall.

This Conference was an initiative of the Electronic Resources Academic Library Link (ERALL) consortium which was formed by the eight members of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC).  The ERALL consortium purchases E-Books for shared and perpetual access among the eight UGC libraries.  A total of 160 librarians, scholars, E-book vendors and publishers from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K shared their experiences and practices in strategic collection development, acquisitions, promotion and use of E-books.

Officiating at the opening ceremony were Professor Michael King-man Hui, the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Prof. Paul Kwan-sing Lam, Acting Vice-President (Undergraduate Education) of CityU.  Mr. Michael Stone, Secretary-General of the University Grants Committee (UGC) gave opening remarks.  Mr. Tom Sanville, Executive Director of Ohiolink and Mr. Andrew Wells, University Librarian of the University of New South Wales delivered keynote speeches.

A total of 18 thought-provoking papers were presented at the Conference.  Click here for detailed information.