(8 February 2014) The seminar is co-organized by the Customs and Excise Department and Lingnan University’s Fong Sum Wood Library. In this seminar, the Inspectors from the Customs and Excise Department will introduce ways to protect and enforce intellectual property in Hong Kong. The seminar, in English, is on 20 February. Details are here.
(8 December 2013) To escape the hustle and bustle of the city, slip into its past, at the “Images Through Time: Photos of Old Hong Kong” exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History. More than 700 photos from the mid-19th century present a true reflection of the city’s early days of development. The largest…
If you’re passing through Hong Kong, libraries and artists have got together to offer courses and exhibitions open to the public. CityU library has a Chinese calligraphy course for beginners during November 2013. Read about it here. Lingnan University has an exhibition of paintings by Anna Glynn, Artist in Residence from Australia. Her paintings can…
(4 November 2013) The Education Bureau has received 57 applications for the development of eTextbooks under its eTextbook market development scheme’s second phase. Twenty applications cover mathematics, eight English language, and five Chinese language. Application results are expected to be available in late December 2013. The remaining 24 applications cover computer literacy, Putonghua, science, history, geography,…
(7 October 2013) Showcasing treasures of the University Archives and Special Collections, this inaugural exhibition brings formerly hidden gems out of storage, some hundreds of years old; among them, rare books in the history of science and antique maps of China. At this exhibition, you will see rare early editions of books by Galileo and…
Want a library job in Hong Kong? The Hong Kong Library Association currently lists vacancies in Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Baptist University, SCAD Hong Kong, Tung Wah College, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Change your career here: https://hkla.org/jobs/
(19 September 2013) The Rare & Special eZone is the search and retrieval interface for accessing publicly available digitized materials from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library’s University Archives and Special Collections. Currently this database contains more than 300 images of maps, 100 volumes of books, 700 images of posters, and the…
(18 September 2013, Hong Kong) Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So today launched a public consultation on the proposed Digital 21 Strategy, which sets out the blueprint for Hong Kong’s information and communications technology, or ICT, development. “With the advent of wireless and multi-platform technologies, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and big…
(2 August 2013) The Education Bureau today launched the second phase of the eTextbook Market Development Scheme. The second phase has taken the recommendations of the Steering Committee on Selection, Quality Assurance & Review of e-Textbook Market Development Scheme and the positive feedback received from stakeholders. The phase will cover more subjects, especially science, Chinese…
(4 August 2013) There’s not a lot of it left. So if just for the sake of nostalgia and the delight of social historians, news that the Government Records Service is preserving more than 8,000 pictures of old Hong Kong, some of which have already been uploaded to its website, will be thrilling. The collection…
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