A warm welcome to all new students. Come join an online Library Orientation Workshop to meet our Learning Support Librarians and discover library resources available for your academic needs!

• Date: 14 – 18 Sep 2020
• Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
• Channel: Microsoft Teams
• * Hands-on practice is available. An iGPS unit is counted. Register here

Remember to join the Learning Journey@Library and win great prizes while you are exploring the Library.

LIB101 Information Skills is an online programme designed to help students to acquire information skills and make use of quality resources and information tools. The programme contains online activities and learning objects that could be embedded in teaching materials.

We will be happy to share with faculty members how the programme can help achieve course learning outcomes. Please contact our Learning Support Librarians for details.

Jointly delivered by faculty staff and librarian, the information skills workshop ‘Market Research Resources in the Library and Beyond’ was presented to a class of marketing students on 24 June 2020. As part of a teaching session, content of the workshop had been specially designed to support the needs of BUS4008 Global Marketing.

Students speedily picked up skills of using subject related databases and resources after engaging in hands-on practice of the various online platforms during the session!

Faculty members are most welcome to contact our Learning Support Librarians to develop tailor-made information skills workshops for students of different programmes.

LIB101 Information Skills is a brand new programme created to help students acquire information skills online.

Join this programme and master the essential information skills to learn and work smart:

• Discover quality resources
• Evaluate information effectively
• Get citations quickly
• Avoid plagiarism

Upon completion of this programme, students can also earn an iGPS unit or ECA hour. Click here for details.

Publishing in a scholarly journal is an effective way to enhance your research visibility as well as research impact. If you are interested in publishing your works, please come to join the workshop co-organized by the Library and Emerald Publishing. The following topics will be covered:

• Selecting the right journal
• The publishing process
• Surviving peer review
• Publication ethics
• Open Access

Date: 24 Apr 2020 (Fri)

Time: 3 – 4 pm

Channel: Microsoft Teams

Speaker: Ms Julie Lin, Publisher of Emerald Publishing

Staff and students are welcome. Register now! iGPS unit / ECA hour(s) are counted.

How to seek truth in the era of fake news?

Jointly organized by the Library and Mr Brian So from the School of Communication, the online workshop ‘Why can’t you just GOOGLE it? Exploring and Making Use of News Resources in the Library Collection and Beyond‘ was delivered to students from SCOM on 26 March 2020.

Students had been trained to develop skills to find creditable news resources, evaluate and select trustworthy news sources during the session. They have also learned many quick tips for information searching through these interesting exercises!

Need to stay alert for changes in rapidly evolving global markets? Here is a database that can help to achieve this goal.

Passport is a database providing information on detailed market size, country marketing parameters, marketing forecast data, consumer lifestyles, business sources as well as marketing profiles and analysis.

Join us to learn more about this useful database.

Date: 3 Apr 2020 (Fri)

Time: 3 – 4 pm

Channel: Microsoft Teams

Register now! iGPS unit / ECA hour(s) are counted.