HKUST Library’s Instruction Program

Mission: Develop students’ information and data literacy abilities to strengthen and support their powers of analysis, creativity, and rationality as they seek, find, select, modify, and create knowledge effectively and ethically across their lives.

Program: Our information and data literacy program for UGs and PGs is based on a set of intended learning outcomes (ILOs) offered by a mixture of workshops and self-directed online learning materials (Library Guides, e-learning videos & games).

Want to arrange a library workshop or Guide? Email the Senior Librarian (Learning Support), Eunice Wong, or contact one of the subject librarians to arrange information and data literacy support, to embed in your program or course.

Undergraduate (UG) Program

To develop information and data literacy (research skills), the Research and Learning Support team works closely with university offices, programs, and individual faculty members to embed library instructions in undergraduate programs and courses.

New Students In DSTO’s New Student Orientation

Help new students familiarize themselves with the information and research environment, search tools, & services available at a university

Library Orientation

Get Started @HKUST (guide)

360-degree Library Virtual Tour

Year 1 & Common Core Courses

Lay the foundations of information literacy for UGs: searching, evaluating, and using reliable information and data
Work closely with instruction and program leaders

LANG 1406

Academic English for Business Studies

LANG 1407

Academic English for Engineering Studies

LANG 1408

English for Humanities & Social Science Studies

LANG 1409

Academic English for Science Studies

CENG 1600

Biotechnology and Its Business Opportunities

ENGG 1110

Engineering Solutions to Grand Challenges

Year 2 – 4

Build up students’ ability to navigate and use the information environment in their subject disciplines
Build on previous learning to enable students to do independent research in their disciplines and start to contribute knowledge to their fields

ECON 3700

Writing as an Economist

MGMT 2010

Business Ethics and the Individual

MGMT 2110

Organizational Behavior

PHYS 2080

Physics Seminar

LANG 3070

English Communication for Humanities and Social Science Studies II

ENVR 3420 / EVSM 5270

Environmental Law and Regulations

ENVR 3220

Energy Sources and Usage

MGMT 4230

International Management

MGMT 4250

Management Consulting

CHEM 4689

Capstone Project

CHEM 4691

Capstone Research I

Some of these collaborations are “deep” collaboration, using methods such as multiple workshops, students submitting required research plans and having coaching sessions with librarians, and librarian-faculty member shared assessment of student work.

The page on Library’s Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) for its program also has some examples of co-developed rubrics.

Postgraduate (PG) Program

The Researchers’ Series is the Library’s program for researchers. It covers topics that relate to 6 stages in the research cycle. Some sessions are qualified for Professional Development Course for RPGs. Check the PDC System for status. Recordings for selected workshops are also available here.

1. Search & Discovery

2. Data Collection & Analysis

Data Cleaning 101: Using No-code Tools
Data Visualization with Tableau – an Intro
Mining text with Voyant tool: an intro
Web Scraping 101 (modules 1 & 2)

3. Data Management

4. Writing

5. Publishing & Intellectual Property

6. Impact

Making an Impact – Tracking Your Research Metrics

Open Workshops

Research & Learning Support team offers a variety of open workshops & tutorials to the entire HKUST community on different databases or topics.

Stay tuned to our workshop announcements on Library webpage and University’s Calendar. The Library also collaborates with JULAC (a consortium of university libraries in Hong Kong) and database vendors to deliver workshops. Some collaborations include: