Since September 2025, our library entrance gates have featured Smart Door Panels, designed to support e-Identity access using the HKUST QR Code or HKUST Staff App. But how widely are they being used? Let's look at the numbers.

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the State of Open Data, a collaboration between Digital Science, Figshare, and Springer Nature, that has tracked researcher attitudes toward data sharing across 192 countries every year since 2016. The 2025 edition draws on a full decade of longitudinal evidence to identify where real progress has been made, where momentum has stalled, and what new forces are reshaping the open data landscape.

For the past two months, I have had the opportunity to work as a student helper in the Library’s Archives and Special Collections, helping set up an exhibition titled “Travelling in Maps: Exploring Tourist Asia (1890-1950)”. This showcases a selection of travel maps created during a transformative period in Asian travel history, with improving transportation networks turning perilous journeys into more accessible explorations, allowing more people to have access to tourism.