23 October 2025
12.00-13.30 Chinese Standard Time
(5am-6.30am BST)
Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill
Artificial Intelligence makes the headlines every day. It is an especially hot topic at universities worldwide, where its relevance and proper use for teaching, learning and research is fiercely debated. Often the librarian is the arbiter of what works, what doesn’t work and what should be allowed. But is AI viewed in the same way in different geographical regions? In this, our most ambitious webinar ever, three eminent librarians from different parts of the globe describe the stances taken by themselves, their libraries and their peers at other universities in their respective regions.
Speakers are:
Dr Xin Bi, Chief Officer of Data, Director of the Centre for Knowledge and Information, Director of University Marketing and Communications, Director of Learning Mall and XJTLU University Librarian, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Alexander Berg-Weiß, Head of IT at the Library of Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, USA
The webinar is sponsored by De Gruyter Brill and will be moderated by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf. Registration is free of charge.
For more details and to book your place on the seminar, click here.
Who should attend
Academic librarians; public librarians; publishers; members of librarian support groups; members of consortia and trade associations; academics and students interested in sustainability; environmentalists.
Dr Xin Bi currently serves as Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University‘s Chief Officer of Data, Director of the Centre for Knowledge and Information, Director of University Marketing and Communications, Director of Learning Mall and XJTLU University Librarian. He has also been appointed the Director of the Digital Transformation Research Centre of the College of Industry-Entrepreneurs.
After receiving his master’s degree in information systems from the University of Liverpool in 2002, he worked in Xi’an as the coordinator for his company’s software outsourcing business in Europe and the United States. In 2004, he joined the Liverpool Collaborated Education Programme as a computer science teacher in Suzhou Industrial Park. The following year, he took a post as IT Director of the Higher National Diploma Project Management Office of the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing and was also in charge of media work. While in office, he played a critical role in introducing the EUROPEN (now called PEN Worldwide) Practice Firm programme to China.
Alexander Berg-Weiß studied Computer Science, Psychology, and Philosophy, and began working as a software developer at the university library while still a student. What started as a side engagement soon became a central part of his career. Since 2009, he has led a department at the University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, an institution in continuous transformation.
His current focus is on Open Science and Artificial Intelligence, with the goal of improving services for researchers in areas such as data management, preservation, curation, and dissemination. He is a guest member of the steering committee of LMU’s AI Hub and contributes to several other working groups on AI, Open Science, and research support.
Michael Levine-Clark is Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, where he has worked in various positions since 1999. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in library organizations and is currently chair of the board of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, a member of the OCLC Leaders Council, and past chair of the OCLC Americas Regional Council. Active in coordinating the long-term management of print collections (“shared print”), he chaired the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance executive committee and served in many roles in the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), including chair of the WEST executive committee.
As co-chair of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Shared Collection Development Committee, he guides decisions about collaborative collection building within the consortium. He serves on the CHORUS and University Press of Colorado Boards. As an active member of many national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards, he provides guidance about key library and higher education trends.
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