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Resource List: Understanding Students’ Engagement

Notice Friday, December 20, 2019 - 10:24

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:

  • Total number of Active Students
  • Total number of Full Text Access
  • Total number of Likes

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. 

Reminder for Returning or Renewing Term Loans

Notice Friday, December 20, 2019 - 07:41

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

Online Resources for English Language Learning

Notice Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 07:41

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. 

 

Student Survival Guide: Find e-Resources

Notice Wednesday, December 18, 2019 - 11:12

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:

  • Find e-Books and Articles
  • Find Exam Papers
  • Find Other e-Resources – Subject related databases and guides
  • Find Tools for Assignment

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. 

Library's Online AV Resources - Learn through Watching & Listening

Notice Monday, December 16, 2019 - 11:16

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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:

 

  • HyRead
    This collection provides around 200 audiobooks in a variety of subjects, including language learning books for English, Japanese and Korean. This guide provides steps on how to check out audiobooks on this platform.
     
  • iRead eBook
    This collection provides over 200 audiobooks for learning languages like English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

 

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.

Locating Library Resources from Off Campus

Notice Friday, December 13, 2019 - 09:49

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.

Services of ProQuest ebook platforms are temporarily unavailable from 10:00-20:00 on 21 Dec 2019

News Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 11:32

Library Workshop slides are NOW available for downloading

Notice Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 08:47

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. 

Locate Library Online Resources by Discipline

Notice Monday, December 9, 2019 - 10:30

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.

 

Deadline EXTENDED To Win An Apple Watch/iPad: READ@PolyU Writing Contest

News Friday, December 6, 2019 - 14:14

The deadline for all PolyU students to submit their entries is now EXTENDED to 31 March 2020. Seize this last opportunity!

If you have already submitted and wish to enhance your submission, we would be happy to accept a revised version from you before the new deadline. Otherwise, we will keep your current submission.

Write Your Own Mini-Memoir

What touchstone event, or turning point, occurred in your childhood and that you still remember to this day?

Write a 500-word account of this event from your point of view...and submit for a chance to win great prizes.

Taking inspiration from Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, submissions which are accompanied by an original illustration will receive a bonus point.

Eligibility: All PolyU Students*
Language: English
Format: 500 words (+/- 50 words), Word or PDF document
Submission deadline: 31 March 2020, 11:59 p.m.
[Note: 1 entry per each participant]

Prizes:

  • Champion – Apple Watch Series 5
  • 1st Runner Up – Apple iPad
  • 2nd Runner Up – Apple Pencil (2nd Generation)
  • Honourable Mentions: $500 Eslite Bookshop Coupons

Learn more or submit

Thank you for your understanding and for your support for READ@PolyU!

READ@PolyU is the community reading project of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our vision is to build an empathetic, creative, and courageous community of learners and global citizens for whom reading is a source of knowledge and creativity.

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