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Working in
Partnership
JULAC
initiated two significant co-operative projects which the
Library has taken up. The first is the move to a shared library system
amongst all JULAC libraries which will be tendered in late 2015; the
second is a UGC funded project to create shared information literacy
courseware amongst all the eight libraries.
The Library was pleased to again receive collections of rare books and archives or financial
support from our generous donors. Below are some highlighted donations:
Donations
it is the largest donation of Chinese Medicine books ever received
by the Library, amongst them are nineteen pre-1795 titles and
117 titles published between 1796 and 1911;
Professor Chong Siu Cheung Chinese Medicine Collection
(
莊兆祥教授知足書室藏書
) donated by Professor Y.C. Kong (
江潤祥
)
Professor Chong Siu Cheung Chinese Medicine Collection
Lin Bicheng Papers
include
poetry, calligraphy and correspondence from twenty three
Guangdong and Hong Kong scholars and artists. Most of the
manuscripts are the literary works from ‘Jian Society’ poets, a
society founded by Liao Entao(
廖恩燾
) and active in Hong Kong
in the 1950s.
Lin Bicheng Papers (
林碧城藏香港詩詞、書信、翰墨
)