The library has held the Lantern Festival with Fu Activities
The library has held the Lantern Festival with Fu activities in the end of February until the middle of March to celebrate the first important festival after the Chinese Spring Festival for Chinese people. Students and staff were randomly invited to write the Chinese Character “Fu” which could be kept or given to the library staff to be shared to others as a gift. The Lantern Festival with Fu activities purpose is to get staff and students all together at the early beginning of the new semester with celebrating and experiencing a little bit more about the Chinese culture. 228 people have supported the activities by taking parts and followed by positive feedbacks from the participants.
Planting makes a low-carbon life possible
The National Tree-planting day, also known as Arbor Day has been held annually on the 12th of March, since 1915. This year the XJTLU library organized a fun activity to celebrate Arbor Day and to increase awareness about the environment and ecology by looking at the growth in plants and trees every day, and see how it impacts people’s daily life.
All XJTLU staff and students were invited to collect 3 different types of seeds, Sunflower, Tournesol and Morning glory from the library from 9th-14th March. They had to plant the seeds, and wait for it to grow into a sprout and then bloom in a flower. What a fun and interesting way to know more about the environment and the ecology!
Waste Management Week
XJTLU Library in collaboration with Rotaract Suzhou has organized a waste management event. One student from the Green Environmental club made a very impactful presentation on what waste disposal is, and how waste is classified into recyclables and non-recyclables. The participants also watched a short video on a town in Japan which is known as the town which produces no waste.
This activity is being held to increase awareness on waste management and how to sort waste into recyclables and non-recyclables. It was a short and sweet activity which will hopefully encourage students to be more careful when throwing their waste!
Library Staff Training “How to conduct research and scientific research project application”
The Library invited Professor Xiaohong Cai from Suzhou Vocational Health College to talk about how to conduct a research and scientific research project application on 15th March 2018.
Professor XiaoHong Cai gave a detailed explanation to the following contents: The main contents of the research work, how to write an application form, Suzhou Library association project applications and how to write a graduation thesis. The training came to a successful end. Professor Cai shared her personal experience with all of librarians. “It benefited me a lot to take part in the training course. I’ve learnt how to deal with the research project application comprehensively and deeply. Which gives me much more confidence to apply for my own project”. Said Li Lu, a librarian in the Users Service Division of Library.