Library opening hours during Christmas & New Year Holidays 2025
The Library wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The opening hours of the Library during the festival season are as follows:
| Date | Festival | Opening Hours | Opening Area |
| 24 Dec 2024 (Tue) | Christmas Eve | 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | CBCC Library & SFU Learning Commons |
| 25 Dec 2024 (Wed) | Christmas Holidays | 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | SFU Learning Commons (No Counter Services) |
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| 31 Dec 2024 (Tue) | New Year’s Eve | 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | CBCC Library & SFU Learning Commons |
| 1 Jan 2025 (Wed) | The first day of January | 1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | SFU Learning Commons (No Counter Services) |
Revision Weeks & Examination Period (1st semester AY 2024-25)
The opening hours of the Library will be extended during the revision weeks and examination period from 9 December 2024 to 7 January 2025. Details are as follows:
| Date | Opening Hours | Opening Area | |
| 9 Dec 2024 to 7 Jan 2025 |
Monday – Friday | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. | CBCC Library & SFU Learning Commons |
| Saturday | 10:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | ||
| 24 Dec 2024 (Christmas Eve) |
8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | ||
| 31 Dec 2024 (New Year’s Eve) |
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| 25 Dec 2024 (Christmas Day) |
1:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | SFU Learning Commons (No Counter Services) |
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| 26 Dec 2024 (The first weekday after Christmas Day) |
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| 1 Jan 2025 (The first day of January) |
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E-Resources on Trial (Nov - Dec 2024)
The following e-resources are currently available for free trial:
For details, please refer to Trial Databases. You are welcome to send your comments on these resources to library@sfu.edu.hk or fill in our E-Resources Trial Feedback Form
Library User Survey 2024
Participate now – Library User Survey 2024
4 November – 13 December 2024
To help us know more about your teaching, learning and research needs, please spare a few minutes to take part in the annual survey and fill out the questionnaire. Your comments and suggestions on our services will be essential in our ongoing efforts to make improvements.
As a token of our appreciation, you will be automatically entered into a lucky draw and have a chance to win fabulous prizes offered by the e-resources vendors.
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Apple iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi 64GB |
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Sennheiser MOMENTUM 4 Wireless (With Headphone Stand) |
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Apple AirPods Pro |
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Apple AirPods 4 |
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HK$500 Cash Coupons (Bookstore)
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HK$500 Cash Coupons (Coffee)
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| Other sponsors | Prizes |
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| Elsevier Hong Kong Ltd. | Wireless Charger Power Bank Laptop Stand |
| Springer Nature Group | Portable keyboard Power Bank |
| ASIAWORLD Digital Technology Co., Ltd. | Lucky Gift Set |
| Cengage Learning Hong Kong Ltd. | |
| Hong Kong CSMAR DATA Technology Ltd. | |
| John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | |
| Sage Publications Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd. | |
| China Academic Journals (CD Edition) Electronic Publishing House Co., Ltd | |
| World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Terms and Conditions
- Each participant is suggested to take the survey only ONCE. Multiple entries of the same participant will only be counted ONCE;
- The Lucky Draw results will be posted on the library website and all winners will be contacted individually by email. The Library is NOT liable for any non-delivery or non-receipt of email(s) by the winners;
- Late redemption will NOT be entertained. All prizes are NOT transferable, exchangeable or redeemable for cash;
- Authorization of other persons to collect the prize on your behalf will NOT be accepted;
- The Library is NOT liable for any cost or damage relating to or resulting from the acceptance and/or use of the above prizes by the participants;
- NO warranty or maintenance service will be provided;
- The Library reserves the right of final decision on all matters in case of any disputes.
Eligible Participants
- This survey is open to all current SFU/CBCC/CAPS students and staff;
- External members including Alumni with valid Library cards are also welcome to participate except the Corporate members with Readers’ cards;
- This is an anonymous survey. No personal information will be collected;
- If you are interested in entering the Lucky Draw, please provide your contact information (i.e. Student/Staff ID, name, email address and phone number) at the end of the survey. This information will only be used for purposes related to the Lucky Draw;
- The results of the Lucky Draw will not be affected by your answers and written comments.
E-Resources Discovery Days (11-13 November 2024)
Members of SFU and CBCC are most welcome to join our E-Resources Discovery Days to be held on 11-13 November 2024 to explore a vast array of digital resources and to get a chance to win fabulous prizes. Professional trainers from Wolters Kluwer, Clarivate & ProQuest, McGraw Hill, Emerald Publishing, Gale, HyRead, Wanfang, CNKI and CSMAR will set up booths at the Library Learning Commons to
- explain featured resources and answer your enquiries; and
- conduct workshops to show you effective ways of locating books, journal articles and news stories for your assignments and research projects.
Please visit the booths and register for the workshops that you are interested in. You may click here to get more information about the event.
ReadingList & ILL Workshop
The Library is pleased to hold a workshop which can effectively help you build specialized resource lists for your teaching courses and efficiently get digital copy of articles with the enhanced Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services.
Topics include:
- Introducing ReadingList@Library and integrating a reading list on Moodle for students’ access;
- Creating your own reading lists and adding references;
- Communicating with the Library via ReadingList@Library;
- Introducing the enhanced ILL Services;
- Making requests for ILL items, which are not held by SFU/CBCC Library, via the Library Discovery Search.
For registration, please click: https://forms.office.com/r/mg3bzcYndz
Date 21 Oct 2024 (Monday)
Time 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Venue In-person: E-Learning Laboratory (A411), Learning Commons
Audience: Staff Only
For enquiries, please contact us at library@sfu.edu.hk.
New e-resources available – ProQuest One Business and ProQuest One Psychology
The Library is pleased to offer the following newly subscribed e-databases:
| Title | Coverage |
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| ProQuest One Business |
ProQuest One Business contains a vast amount of business information in multiple databases, including ABI/INFORM Collection, Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection, Business Market Research Collection and Entrepreneurship Database, covering over 2,400 journals, thousands of e-books and videos, as well as hundreds of thousands of reports from J. P Morgan, BMI Research, Hoovers and others. |
| ProQuest One Psychology |
ProQuest One Psychology provides diverse resource types including scholarly journals, therapy videos, counselling transcripts, news and dissertations to support research on various topics related to psychology, such as abnormal psychology, addiction, death and dying, school counselling and parenting. |
Students and staff are welcome to access this resource via A-Z List of e-Databases.
Sage Research Methods on trial
Sage Research Methods is currently available for free trial (Till: 30 November 2024). For details, Please refer to Trial Databases. Please feel free to send your comments on this resource to library@sfu.edu.hk or fill in our E-Resources Trial Feedback Form