Book Exhibition In Celebration of the Lunar New Year 2025

To celebrate the coming Lunar New Year festival, the Library is currently holding a book exhibition which has a primary focus on the cultural traditions and customs related to this special occasion. The books on display feature New Year stories, auspicious symbols and patterns, zodiac predictions, celebratory cuisines as well as the art of paper-cutting. Our main purpose is to spread and share the joy of the Chinese New Year with everyone!

Library Opening Hours during the Lunar New Year Holidays 2025

Library Opening Hours during the Lunar New Year Holidays:

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy Year of the Snake.

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:

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:

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

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.

1st Apple iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi 64GB		2nd Sennheiser MOMENTUM 4 Wireless (With Headphone Stand)
3rd Apple AirPods Pro		4th Apple AirPods 4
HK$500 Cash Coupons (Bookstore)	HK$500 Cash Coupons (Electronic Products)		HK$500 Cash Coupons (Coffee)

Terms and Conditions

1. Each participant is suggested to take the survey only ONCE. Multiple entries of the same participant will only be counted ONCE;
2. 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;
3. Late redemption will NOT be entertained. All prizes are NOT transferable, exchangeable or redeemable for cash;
4. Authorization of other persons to collect the prize on your behalf will NOT be accepted;
5. 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;
6. NO warranty or maintenance service will be provided;
7. The Library reserves the right of final decision on all matters in case of any disputes.

Eligible Participants

1. This survey is open to all current SFU/CBCC/CAPS students and staff;
2. External members including Alumni with valid Library cards are also welcome to participate except the Corporate members with Readers’ cards;
3. This is an anonymous survey. No personal information will be collected;
4. 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;
5. 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.