Notes From The Library, Issue No. 32

Issue No. 32 April 1999

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Impressions of Light and Shadow

An exhibition of watercolors by Zhinan Jiang will open on 22 April in the Library Gallery. Jiang was trained in dyeing arts at the Central College of Arts and Crafts in Beijing. He began exhibiting his watercolor paintings in 1990. He is now regarded as one

of the outstanding watercolor artists in China.

"Light is very significant in Jiang's painting" noted Jiang's teacher, Professor Dakai Du. "It is not only a medium, but also a goal."

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COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT:

Women's Studies

Women's studies is a cross disciplinary subject that includes materials ranging from "women in religion" to "women soldiers"

The Library of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

(LC classifications BL 458 to US l). A con

-tinually growing area of scholarship, women from every place on the planet have studied, analyzed and published on their history, present position, and future.

The HKUST Library maintains a sizable collection of reference resources and two databases, one in Chinese and the other in

English, specifically devoted to Women'_s

Studies. The Chinese database, "-i</-k#ff Jl

(1980-1994)", includes full-text Chinese newspaper and magazine articles covering women's movements, history and other

women's issues in China and the world. The

one in English, "Contemporary Women's

Issues", covers over 600 sources published around the world. It focuses on health,

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Don't 'Bookmark' Library

Resources, Please!

Please do not bookmark database and electronic journal web sites which you get to from the Library Resources pages of the Library web server (http://library.ust.hk/res/).

The Library subscribes to many electronic resources on the Web. To access them, you would visit the Library's web server and select a link to a database or electronic journal.

Most of the time you won't have to enter a username or password. The publisher has their server check the address of your computer and see if it is on the list of allowed addresses. That authorization is paid for by the Library. Once you arrive at the publisher's web

site, you could add it to the bookmark list in your web browser. BUT we are asking you not to do that.

What's Wrong With Bookmarking? When you use the link on the Library's web page, this access is added to our usage statistics. When you go directly to the bookmarked site, the only way the Library would ever know is if the publisher provided usage statistics to us. And almost none of them do.

Why Should You Care? If no one uses the link on the Library's web page, then it looks like no one is using the database. So when the time comes for the Library to renew the subscription, it may be very hard to justify the cost.

That's Not Fair! We are always asking publishers to provide usage statistics with our subscriptions, but most have not developed a

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way to do this. To make the best spending

decisions with a shrinking budget, we need as much usage information as we can get.

Every time you use the links on our Library Resources pages you help us collect this information. And every time you forget means that our statistics are incomplete, and contribute an invalid factor in our decisions.

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MEDIA: Materials for the School

of Business and Management

This is the first in a series describing some of the materials available in Media Resources for the different Schools and Divisions.

Business and Management: Most of the materials are in VHS format. They range from practical how-to aspects of management to more historical and theoretical works. The collection has practical business materials, for example, over one hundred titles on personnel management alone. Some are in series like 9 traits of highly successful work teams

(Media HD66 .N5541995) and Conquering team conflict (Media HD66 .C566 1997). The library has also collected case studies of individual companies, many from Harvard Business School, like Dansk Designs, Ltd (Media HD9616.

D4 D367 1995 pt.1-2) and Decline of People Express (Media HE9803 .P46 D43 1989).

We have biographies and interviews with famous business people, like Stanley Ho or Richard Branson who are profiled in the 13 part series Tycoons (Media HF5386 .T936 1990).

One can also watch videos on the history of industries like Triumph of the nerds (Media

HD9696 .C62 T75 1996) which is a 3 part series on the early days of the PC industry.

Economics: The Library maintains a collection to assist instructors and students in economics. Prominent among the collection

is a 17 part series, Introductory economics (Media

HB 71 .IS 77 1996) and the 24 part series Principles of macroeconomics (Media HB 172.5 .P7551991).

We did not neglect works on economic development either. For example, one can

view The competitive advantage of nations

(Media HD3611.C621993) and watch Michael

Porter explain his theories about national competitive advantage as it is applied to industry.

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SYSTEMS UPDATE: Web Catalog

We have made a lot of changes in the

Web interface to the Library Online Catalog

(http://ustlib.ust.hk/). Now that it is out of the test phase, we spent some time making it easier to use. The biggest change was to eliminate the initial screen, so that users can

immediately start a search ..

Now all the links to other library catalogs, to our Library's information, and to the various help and feedback forms have been consolidated onto the primary interface screen. An updated online user guide can be

found at http://library.ust.hk/res/guides/opac/

For the next step, our staff are working on translations for all the screen and button

text, so that a more fully Chinese interface

will be available.

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human rights, the work place, and legal status.

The majority of the Library's collection

on women's studies are filed under women

and feminism (LC classes HQllOO - HQ2000).

There are over 1000 items ranging from the practical ":kf,-k !i.. il;--f ff}-" (HQl 781 .F8 1998)

to the more theoretical "Mappings: feminism

and the cultural geographies of encounter"

(HQ1190 .F77 1998). The collection includes works on feminist theory by noted philosopher Sandra Harding, both older items such as "Feminism and methodology : social science

issues" (H61 .F38 1987) and more recent ones

like "Is science multicultural: postcolonialisms,

feminism, and epistemologies" (Q175.5 .H39 1998). You will also find in our collection

works by the renowned author 4'=:iR-~~, who is

a pioneer in exploring womens issues in

China. She has written several noteworthy

books, including" rf7!iXJ-k,fi.6!;,fi.Jf-:l::_11

(HQ29.

L528 1996)

The Library also subscribes to over 20

different journals in this subject area, and we

collect media materials on different aspects of

women and their lives. Of special note is "Women of the world" (Media HQ1399 .W61989),

a 7 part series on women's lives in twenty

different countries; and "Half the sky" (Media

HQ1767 .H35 1996) which explores the role of women in China today. There are also works

on women's careers like "Women in computing"

(Media HD6073.C6522 U58 1998) and "Women

in engineering" (Media TA157 .W653 1993).

Search the Library catalog for the words

women, feminism, family, marriage, sex,

gender, and even children to find items of

interest to you.

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Library Instruction - Achieving a

Higher Ground!

Our instructional activities have experienced

massive growth in recent years, especially for

this academic year. From July 98 to March 99, the Library has offered 236 classes and

orientations to 6442 students (a small

percentage are staff). This represents a 65%

increase in sessions and a 36% increase in

attendees compared to last year's figures.

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INTERNET: Music resources

The Internet provides many valuable resources for music lovers and researchers. Directories are good starting points for exploring the large number of music sites. For example, Worldwide Internet Music

Resources at http://www.music.indiana.edu/

music_resources/outline.html provides a

comprehensive and well-organized directory on many topics in music. If you are a music researcher, you can try Internet Resources for Music Scholars at http://www.rism.harvard.edu/ MusicLibrary/InternetResources.html. Classical

music lovers should visit the Classical Music Department of the WWW Virtual Library at http://www.gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/classical and

the Classical Music Web Ring at http://www. orchestranet.co.uk/ring.html.

Two databases provided by All-Media Guide at http://www.allmusic.com/ and http:// allclassical.com/ are good reference tools for

recorded music. The former focuses on Western popular music genres whereas the latter is for classical music. In these databases, you can find reviews and track information on albums, biographies on musicians and groups, a glossary and essays on musical styles, and much more.

For music of Hong Kong and China, you can search the directories on Yahoo Hong Kong at http://www.yahoo.com.hk/

entertainment/music/ and the music page on

Miningco. Com at http://chineseculture.miningco. com/. These directories provide links to both

popular and traditional music genres. You can also download music from the Internet. Several sound encoding formats have been developed which are changing the ways recorded music is distributed. The most popular are RealAudio (http://www.realaudio. com/) and MP3 (http://www.mp3.com/). The

quality of MP3 has caused a lot of debate

regarding copyright and publishing issues. For a good discussion of this, see the article

Distributing Music Over the Internet at http:// www.duke.edu/-bdk3/music.html.

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All of Us Are Related;

Each of Us Is Unique

The Library is sponsoring an exhibit on

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race" in the Library Gallery from 19 March to 16 April. This is an effort to support the Division of Social Science's lecture and panel discussion on this topic, which was held on

23 March.

This thought-provoking exhibit consists of 18 prints, 3 introductory panels, and a film entitled" Six Billion Races". Produced originally

by a team of biological anthropologists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, the exhibit was first shown at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris in 1992 under the title

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T ous Parent, T ous Differents". Professor Segall

at Syracuse University translated the exhibition into English, and it is now touring the world.

Supported by recent scientific evidence, the exhibit claims that every person on earth is kin to every other because we all have the same ancestors. The exhibit begs the question: 11

If there is no such thing as 'race', why do we still have racism?" As suggested by Dr. Kimberly Chang: "Given the unique history of racism in Hong Kong, as well as the current usage of the term "race" in political debates about Chinese identity and citizenship, this exhibit would find an apropos setting in Hong Kong at this time."

Some or our physic.JI differences give the impression that it

is possible to divide us into races. But when these physical

characteristics are subjected to detaili:d study, that cannot

be conduded at all. Instead it b('Come.s obvious that our

physical diversity renects continuous changes from one extreme to the other. To place any boundaries within this

continuous diversity would be, therdore, completely arbitr.uy. Hum;u1 diversity is in fact infinitely more

complicated than the idea we have constructed of it. This is why attcmp~ to make racial dassifk.ations that are typically

made don't yield any coherent results; there is nothing scientific about "r.l.ce".