Dear colleagues and students
The Library Temporary Book Pick-up and Return Service Point at Homantin Halls of Residence will remain open from 9am to 5pm on 24 and 31 Dec 2019.
For details of the temporary service point, please click here.
In this festive season, the Library would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support.
May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you all through the year!
Pao Yue-kong Library
As the semester draws to a close, we can make use of analytics and data from the Resource List platform to better understand how our students are making use of the reading lists for your courses.
Resource List, a tool launched in July 2019, aims to connect your students with your course readings right inside Learn@PolyU. This platform allows Instructors and Librarians to collaborate and manage suggested readings and other resources to support students’ learning.
Log on to Learn@PolyU, access the Resource List platform and see usage analytics under “Reports” in the left sidebar. Here are some useful usage analytics you can use to better understand how your reading lists are used:
These analytics can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis.
Do check out our guide for Resource List to learn more!
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact your Faculty Librarian or call us at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
This message is a gentle reminder to all academic, administrative equivalent staff and postgraduate students that all library books on loan to them are due on 20 January 2020. Please return the books to Library when it reopens. The reopening date will be announced in due course. In case you will not return to campus in the first two weeks of Semester 2 which will commence on 13 January 2020, you are recommended to renew your loans first and return the books not in need any more to Library later.
Books borrowed or renewed from now on will be due for return on 25 May 2020.
A loan may be recalled once the item has been on loan to you for four weeks if required by another user. Notice of “Shortened due date / No further renewal of your Library items(s)” will be emailed to you. Please remember to check your PolyU or CPCE official email account regularly, including the Clutter and Junk Email folders.
Please return all loans before leaving Hong Kong on long leave so that other users can have access to the books. To view your borrowing record or to renew your loans online, please visit https://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/my-record.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6864 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
Best wishes for your success in the coming academic year.
Pao Yue-kong Library
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Library has a variety of online resources for self-directed English language learning. We have put together a guide of featured resources with
Contact your Faculty Librarians for information or research consultation. During Library closure, Faculty Librarians can also set up a consultation via Skype. Do email your Faculty Librarians to make an appointment.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
To help you quickly find e-resources and tools for preparing assignments and exams during the period of online learning and assessment, the Library has compiled a one-page survival guide highlighting:
Contact your Faculty Librarians for information or research consultation. During Library closure, Faculty Librarians can also set up a consultation via Skype. Do email your Faculty Librarians to make an appointment.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
Listening to audiobooks and watching videos for formal and informal learning have become more and more popular with the proliferation of digital and mobile technologies. Online AV resources also provide useful materials for research and teaching, in addition to other materials.
The Library has subscribed to a wide range of online audio and video resources in different disciplines and you may access to them even you are off-campus simply with your NetID and NetPassword:
Featured Online Audiobook Collections:
Featured Online Video Resources:
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
Most of the Library’s e-resources are easily accessible while you are off-campus with your NetID and NetPassword. Here are some tips to help you access them during this period of Library closure:
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
The complete set of slides for Library Workshops scheduled for this semester is now available online. You can download them with your NetID and NetPassword. Feel free to contact our instructors or Faculty Librarians if you would like to have further discussion regarding the slides.
Some Featured Workshop Handouts:
Theme 1: Essential skill for academic success
Theme 2: Staying focused: tapping on specialized information tools
Theme 3: Reference management tools
Theme 4: Research analysis: tools to support authors and scholarly publishing
For the complete set of workshop handouts, please visit here.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during the period of closure.
The Library provides various online resources to support your learning and research needs. Librarians have put together subject guides for different disciplines so that you can continue to explore and use these online resources available to you while being off campus:
| Disciplines | Subject Guides | Relevant Online Databases |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Science & Textiles | Link | Link |
| Business | Link | Link |
| Construction & Environment | Link | Link |
| Design | Link | Link |
| Engineering | Link | Link |
| Health Science | Link | Link |
| Hotel and Tourism Management | Link | Link |
| Humanities | Link | Link |
| Social Science | Link | Link |
Contact your Faculty Librarians for information or research consultation. During Library closure, Faculty Librarians can also set up a consultation via Skype. Do email your Faculty Librarians to make an appointment.
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email or phone calls at 2766-6863 (9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays) during this period.
