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Check Library Occupancy Live!

2025-02-11 (7 months ago7 months ago)03 mins

Have you noticed that starting Feb 10, 2025, a new dashboard appears on the library homepage? There, you can see the number of people currently in the Library, and the real-time booking situation of study rooms and study pods. How It Is Done This new people counting system estimates how many people are in the…

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A New Large Group Room for Staff/PGs!

2024-04-30 (1 year ago1 year ago)02 mins

By moving the 3D Printing Service into the Learning Commons on LG1, we have freed up the old room to serve as a second IC Learning Space on the ground floor. Basically, we now have two IC Learning Spaces opposite Lift A on the ground floor – The existing Space has been in heavy use…

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From Studying to Working : An HKUST Alumnus Library Staff Member’s Monologue

2024-04-23 (1 year ago1 year ago)06 mins

Are you a nostalgic person? Will you long for the chance to visit a place you stayed in before again? To me, HKUST library is the place I would never feel bored visiting again and again. As a patron… I am a HKUST 2017 alumnus with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. But before…

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Pick your favorite Library entrance!

2024-04-09 (1 year ago1 year ago)04 mins

After we opened the new entrance at LG5 early March, you can go in and out the Library at three different levels: Main entrance at G/F by the Atrium LG1, the Learning Commons LG5 Which one do you use more often? You may find that a particular entrance fits better into your locus in campus….

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Two More Group Study Rooms!

2024-03-19 (1 year ago1 year ago)02 mins

Whenever we can, we give space to you for studying. Recently two more rooms were converted into Group Study Rooms: LG1-355 and LG3-05! LG1-355 was used by our librarians as a teaching room for Zoom classes during Covid.  Now the need is much less and we moved that to a smaller office space so we…

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Wall Map of Hong Kong Updated

2024-02-27 (2 years ago)02 mins

You probably use a Hong Kong map often. When you check a bus route, explore a hiking trail, find your way to a restaurant …, you use a map, most likely a digital one on your mobile device. For a change of perspective, I invite you to look “up” rather than “down” on your phone…

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Library Spots for Voice & Video Calls – Part 1: Ground Floor & “All Floors”

2024-02-20 (2 years ago2 years ago)06 mins

We all depend on each other to maintain a good study environment, which means no voice or video calls in open public areas.  But, what to do when you want or need to make a call? The Library has several phone-friendly spots, indoors and outdoors.   This is the first of two posts on Library Spots…

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The Quiet Room is Back!

2024-02-06 (2 years ago)01 mins

The Exploration Lab portion of the maps exhibition closed on schedule, and the room has now been converted back into our Deep Quiet Room. Remember – no talking in this room, and we ask that if you need to use a keyboard you even try to type quietly. 🙂   So if you need more…

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Library LG5 Access!

2024-01-09 (2 years ago2 years ago)01 mins

LG5 Opening Now Scheduled for early March! When you come back for the Spring Term (or soon after),  you will be able to enter the Library directly from LG5! We will have another study and event space at the far end of LG5, with a stairwell connecting to/from LG4. Or you can leave the Library…

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Moon Viewing at Library Garden

2023-11-28 (2 years ago2 years ago)02 mins

If you look, you often find wonders at the Library – big and small, indoors and outdoors. Admire this full moon captured on November 27 by my colleague Ada, Head of Resource Management.  It was taken from the Library Garden.  Doesn’t it put us all in awe? I am entranced every time I see the…

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