News & Notices

Welcome back to the Campus! The Library is delighted to introduce the following service and facility enhancements in the new semester. Discussion BoothsFive new Discussion Booths have been installed to facilitate group discussions. Three 6-seat booths have been installed at The Lounge on G/F of Mong Man Wai Library which opens 24 hours each day….

We are delighted to introduce our new Chatbot on Library Website, designed to answer your queries on library services and facilities. Our Chatbot can communicate with you in either English or Chinese, and supports written Chinese characters input (but not Cantonese). The Chatbot is currently in its pilot phase, continuing to learn and improve its…

We are pleased to introduce the enhanced HKALL + Interlibrary Loan (ILL) + Document Delivery Service. With effect from 30 January 2024, EdUHK students and staff can request journal articles, books and book chapters from other libraries directly in iSearch without logging into another ILL system. They can also track the progress and download the…

The Library has entered into its first Transformative Agreement (an agreement which incorporates Article Processing Charges for open access publishing into the journal subscription fees) with Cambridge University Press (CUP), allowing EdUHK researchers to publish open access (OA) articles in CUP’s journals free of charge from 1 January 2023 onward with unlimited quota. The Library…

Further to the service enhancements and facility upgrades announced earlier in June 2023, the Library is pleased to introduce another new initiative: the first mobile application among all local university libraries which will allow EdUHK Library users to borrow library books instantly by themselves anywhere inside the Library in just a few simple steps: Launch…

The Library Management Committee has endorsed the implementation of cashless payment at all library counters in order to speed up services and to streamline administrative processes. With effect from 3 July 2023, cash will no longer be accepted for payment at library counters. Library users may settle their library payments such as fines, membership fees,…

The Library has considered and reviewed carefully comments and suggestions on library services made by students and colleagues from different channels, e.g. the recent LibQUAL+ survey, consultative meetings with library users, suggestions made to library counters, etc.    With the support of Library Management Committee, we are pleased to introduce the following major service enhancements in…

Please be updated that the delivery service of HKALL resumes normal on 1 April 2022. Previously, due to the pandemic, the contractor is unable to provide courier service for HKALL and ILL books among JULAC libraries. Now, the services are available as usual.

Because of the pandemic, the contractor is unable to provide courier service for HKALL and ILL books among JULAC libraries.  HKALL and ILL book loan services are thus temporarily suspended until further notice.  Sorry for any inconvenience thus causes.

According to HKSAR Government’s announcement of “Consumption Voucher Scheme”, Consumption Vouchers cannot be used for education expenses, “i.e. payments to primary and secondary schools providing local and non-local curriculum, and UGC-funded universities”. Consequently, Consumption Vouchers cannot be used to settle all types of fees and payments charged by the Library, including but not limited to:…