Coordinators

Associate Professor Huynh Thi Trang, an advanced senior lecturer at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Can Tho University, Vietnam, previously served as the Director of the Can Tho Learning Resource Center. She holds a PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and she is interested in human resources management, library management, leadership, and library innovation. With a background in project management and organizing library workshops to academic and public libraries in the Mekong Delta region, she brings a wealth of experience to her work. Notably, she has received three prestigious scholarships: the Harvard-Yenching Institute Scholarships in the USA (1995), Fulbright Visiting Scholarships in the USA (2008-2009), and Australian Development Scholarships (2010). Trang has delivered numerous presentations both nationally and internationally. For further inquiries, she can be reached at httrang@ctu.edu.vn or by phone at +84 918 868 234.

Dr. Shih leads a team of IT professionals responsible for overseeing the library management systems of USC library. He also instructs at the Master of Management in Library and Information Science program at USC’s Bovard College. As an educator, Dr. Shih actively engages in the accreditation for Master of Library and Information Science programs and serves on ALA’s Committee of Accreditation. He earned his Doctor of Education from USC’s Rossier School of Education. Dr. Shih has been honored with several grants, including the 2023, 2020 PRRLA Karl Lo Award, the 2019 International Association of University Libraries’ Research and Study Programme grant, and the 2015 ALA Diversity Research Grant. He is also recognized as a fellow of the Leading Change Institute. For more information, please visit: https://works.bepress.com/win_shih/ 

Kun Lin is a Programmer Analyst at the University of Southern California Libraries' Integrated Library System team, with a strong background in servicing library applications, creating system integrations, supporting digital library, access user experiences and accessibility for academic libraries. Kun excels at managing varieties of library applications, creating metadata crosswalks, optimizing user experience, and digital accessibility. He is an active participant in professional committees and has presented at numerous conferences. Kun holds Master of Science in Information Science from the State University of New York at Albany.