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An exhibition of photographs by Cheung Ping, a renowned Hong Kong photographer, will open in the Library Gallery on 22 April. More than 90 works will be on display including many from Mr. Cheung's famous collection of 'Splendours of China.'

Cheung Ping studied fine arts first, and took up photography later. He creates a work of photography in the same way as he would in painting. The poetic element of the scene may first inspire him with a theme and

later he would write one or two lines of poem in the 'right' place of the photo. Actually, his writing is always an indispensable part of the composition. We may say that Cheung Ping handles a camera as deftly as a Chinese brush, and his work is a union of photo art, poetry, painting, and calligraphy .

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WEB: Update on E-Journals

With the recent addition of 5 7 titles from Springer-Verlag, a dozen from SIAM, and some from others, our collection of e-j ournals have grown to about 140 titles, which are available at http://library.ust.hk/ res/ejournals/

These e-journals are grouped together by school: Science, Engineering, Business &

Management, and Humanities & Social

Sciences. Since the number of e-journals in

Science is numerous, these Science e-journals

are further sub-divided by subject: Biology &

Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.

Many of these Science e-journals might be

relevant to our non-Science researchers

especially for multi-disciplines researchers.

These e-journals are mainly from major

publishers and some represent the core journals in their fields.

E-journals have an edge over printed journals in currency, accessibility, and

interactivity.

Currency: Printed journals are usually

several weeks behind their publishing date

since it takes time to ship and process.

However, there could be no time delay for e-journals. Lef stake Applied Physics Letters as an example. The most current printed issue in the Library is vol. 72, no. 8 published on Feb. 23, 98. Yet, thee-journal version of the

journal was 4 issues ahead (vol. 72, no. 12)

and it was made available on the Web on the date it was published - Mar 23, 98.

Accessibility: A printed journal is

available only to one person at a time.

However, an e-journal can be accessed by multiple users concurrently. In the case of LCD Intelligence, it was used 196 times in Feb. 98. The high usage was just close to impossible for the printed equivalence.

Interactivity: One more important advantage of e-journals over printed journals is the interactivity. For example, if you view Journal of Biological Chemistry on the Web, you can link to some other related full-text articles. This will certainly increase your

research productivity.

Whenever you find some important e-journals that the Library has not included, please recommend them by filling out the

Journal Subscription Request form at http://

library. ust. hk/cgi-auth/req-journal.pl, the

Library will review your suggestions in the same way as the subscription requests for the printed journals.

You might also be interested in some of

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these can be found through http://

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INTERNET: Hong Kong

Government Information

Nowadays a lot of government resources

are easily accessible on the Internet for free.

You can find full text resources, ranging from

the recently released Financial Budget to the

Hong Kong Annual Report, a frequently used

reference book in the Library (http://

www.info.gov.hk/isd/hk9 7 /el 99 7 /engl 99 7.htm),

on Hong Kong Governmenfs in Chinese.

Interested in finding out about the govern-ment structure? Connect to the organization

charts (http://www.info.gov.hk/govcht_e.htm).

Wish to find out more about the upcoming Legislative Council Elections which is to take place on May 24? Connect to their

page (http://www.info.gov.hk/election/legco.htm).

Every Saturday the Civil Service Bureau publishes government vacancies on the Web

(http://www.hku.hk/hkgcsb/eindex.htm). You

can read about the job, the application procedure, as well as print out the application

form using the Acrobat Reader 3.0. There are

also other commonly used forms available

for the public to view and print. They are

accessible on http://www.info.gov.hk/forms/.

For Hong Kong Statistics, connect to the

Census & Statistics Department page (http:/

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www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/hkstat/hkstat.htm).

You can find the overview of major statistics, time-series data for frequently asked statistics,

and latest figures with commentary.

The Laws of Hong Kong is now available

on the Web at http://www.info.gov.hk/justice/

laws on BUS (the Bilingual Laws Information

System). BUS contains all Hong Kong1

s ordinances and subsidiary legislation plus selected constitutional documents including

Law and Chinese National Laws applying to Hong Kong.

Information is updated to within a

month after the publication of the

Government Gazette. The system supports

full text searching and switching between English and Chinese versions of the laws.

BUS does not contain bills or case judgments. The judgments/determinations of the Court of Final Appeal since July 199 7 are available from the Judiciary home page at

http://www.info.gov. hk/jud/guide2cs/h tml/

faj.htm. Selected bills from April 97 are

accessible from the Provisional Legislative

Council home page at http://www.plc.gov.hk/

yr9 7-98/english/bills/bills.htm.

To find government information, such

as background, constitution, laws, statistics,

of other countries in the world, you can try the University of Michigan Document Center: Foreign Government Resources on the Web

(http://www. Ii b. um i ch. edu/li b ho me/

Document.center/foreign.html). This

award-winning site gives a comprehensive listing of government and related resources, organized by continent and then by country.

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MEDIA: New Look for Microforms Area

To optimize the usage of space in the

library, a total of eleven rows of compact

shelving, with the capacity to hold 63 microform cabinets has been installed in the Media Resources to accommodate future expansion of the microform collection.

The first seven rows of compact shelving are designated for the microfilm collection:

the newspaper microfilms including the South

China Morning Post, Hong Kong Newspaper

Clippings, New York Times are shelved

alpha-betically by title on the front row of cabinets

facing the entrance of the department.

The large set of "Goldsmith's-Kress

Library of Economic Literature" microform is

shelved on the seventh row; and the

remaining microfilm collection is shelved

from A to Z according to LC Class Number on the 4th row.

The entire microfiche collection, from

A to Z according to LC classifications starts

on the 8th row of the compact shelving. This arrangement groups the bulk

microform collection along open aisles for

easy accessibility and thus reduce the unnecessary moving of the compact shelves until further expansion of the collection.

At the same time, the installation of the compact shelving in the Archives and Special Collection Reading Room has been completed. This new set up also doubles the shelving capacity for the Archives.

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Our Chinese Connections ..•

The HKUST Library has, in past years, received numerous requests from academic libraries in China for providing training for their librarians. The first such librarian arrived

in Hong Kong last week. Ms Fan Aihong, a

reference librarian from Tsinghua University, will spend three months in HKUST for

intensive training of advance librarianship.

In addition to all aspects of reference services,

she will also be exposed to other areas of

library operations including the development

of the Library's web site.

The library has always had a close relationships with academic libraries in mainland China. Among them, Beida and

Tsinhua are more special than others because

of the close ties established by our University Librarian when she spend her sabbatical leave at Peking University giving lectures on library

automation in 1982. Ms. Chang has since

continued to work with the Tsinghua Library's System Dept., and was invited by Tsinghua to participate in its evaluation and selection of a library integrated system. She was appointed as Tsinghua Library's Advisor in 1996.

Since 1993, Beida has acted on our behalf for the acquisitions of Chinese materials published in China. Basically, Beida Library

would simply buy a second copy of their

selections for the HKUST Library. This has

helped us up to build up the Chinese Collection

rapidly and obtain the Chinese scholarly

publications in a timely and cost-effectively

manner. HKUST has in return hosted many

of Beida librarians visits. Last year, our

University Librarian was invited by Beida Library to advise on the layout of its new library and gave a talk on management of

electronic libraries.

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