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Launch of the Library’s first Open Access Collection.
Our Chinese
Rare Books Digital Collection was launched with over 500 rare books
made fully open access in November 2013. At the same time a new
website for the Library’s digital initiatives was launched alongside an
exhibition on open access scholarship.
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The Library continued to create digital content,
working in
partnership to digitise unique collections including:
• The translation manuscript of
The Story of the Stone
, which is
the masterpiece translation in Chinese literature by Professor
David Hawkes, was launched in June 2014. The Research Centre
for Translation generously allowed the Library to digitize the
manuscript and made it available for public access.
Simultaneously the David Hawkes Archive was launched enabling
access to David Hawkes’ papers generously donated by his family.
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Archives Management.
The Library’s Special Collections team was
expanded to include archival management and implemented use of
open source software ArchivesSpace. Eight of the Library’s archival
collections are now discoverable in ArchivesSpace.
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CUHK Golden Jubilee Celestial Civilian Scholarship on Hong Kong
Literature 2013/14.
With the generosity of an anonymous donor the
Library has been able to establish the CUHK Golden Jubilee Celestial
Civilian Scholarship on Hong Kong Literature, which students
producing outstanding research papers using Hong Kong Literature
Collection.
Realising the
Potential of the
Library’s Collections