XJTLU Library held Freshmen Events
At the beginning of the new semester, XJTLU Library held Freshmen Events including three parts: Library Exploration, Library Resources and Services Induction for Freshmen and Reading List. The Library hopes that these activities can help freshmen adjust with the campus life and quickly familiarize with learning space, facilities, and service of the library, and lay the foundation for their learning and research life.
On September 19th and September 20th, the Buddy Group led the freshmen to visit the Library. The Buddies patiently introduced to the freshmen the regulations of using services and spaces, and how to use the library’s convenient self-service facilities. At the same time, the service desk on the third floor of the library also prepared the library student manuals for freshmen. Combined with the on-site library tours, the Library also launched 4 online training courses. These courses showed new students how to use library OPAC system, where to find reliable electronic resources, which better supported new students’ study and further assisted their learning and research at XJTLU.
Library Exploration was an activity to take group photos in the library according to the task card. It helped them to explore and learn how to search for books, where to find printers, and how to use self-service machines by themselves. Library Exploration attracted a large number of participants and also received numerous positive feedbacks from the participants. Siting Liu, a year one student said, “Thanks to these activities, I discovered various services and abundant resources provided by the library. Now I feel more confident and ready for the start of my academic studies.”
Library Event: Living Library Session I Held Successfully
The first session of Living Library was successfully held online by XJTLU Library on the evening of 17 November. The theme of this session was Dreams Become Reality – Life in Super Elite Universities. In this event, we were fortunate to have three alumni as Living Books (guest speakers). They shared their thoughts on topics including dreams, hobbies and persistence. A total of 160 people participated in the webinar.
In the first part of the webinar, the Living Books gave a speech to the audience. Yakun Tang, PhD student at University of Cambridge, shared her story of how she chosen her major and how she persisted in working on it. Xueye Ping, currently studying at Oxford University, talked about her daily life at Oxford and her plans for her academic career, and encouraged XJTLU students to find what they really love to do and make plans for that. Hanyu Jiang, student at ETHZ, gave her suggestions to the audience on what they should do during four years at XJTLU, including setting goals, overcoming difficulties and developing hobbies.
In the second part, the audience had a chance to ask questions to the Living Books. Their questions covered a wide range of topics such as what preparations should be done for top university applications, differences between universities in the UK and the US, and how to strike a balance between study and entertainment. The Living Books shared their opinions on these questions and gave advices to the audience according to their experience.
“This is the second time that I take part in Living Library Webinar. It is of great help to hear the stories of the outstanding alumni. Thanks to Living Library, I has become more and more confident in the future study and career planning.” Said Cai, Year 2 student in department of Applied Mathematics.
Living Library Session II was held successfully on 1 December 2020
On 1 December 2020, Living Library Session II was held successfully at 123W in the Central Building.
In the second session, we invited five LIVING BOOKS, namely environmentalist Yanning Huang, experimenter Haoyuan Yang, slash youth Qizi Ju, entrepreneur Zhili Zhao, and Xiang Li, who devoted himself to scientific research at an early age. They shared their life experiences and ideals with us face to face, encouraging us to learn, to treat life calmly and peacefully with a better attitude.
“From excrement to trash to toxic waste, we live with the illusion that refuse can be made to disappear or, with the push of a button, be magically flushed away.” Yanning Huang showed us a photo he took at the entrance of a teaching building filled with express delivery. It could be seen that we were producing massive quantities of garbage while enjoying a convenient life. What we didn't realize was the damage the trash would cause to the environment. Huang called on everyone to choose to have slight inconveniences in our life: reduce online shopping and go to physical stores to buy things, repeatedly use plastic bags and plastic lunch boxes, bring glass lunch boxes to pack food, and choose dine-in or cook by yourself.
“Life is full of ups and downs.” Haoyuan Yang said. His story was about social anxiety, losing oneself, and character set. As a media worker, he interviewed many celebrities. These past experiences were what he used to be proud of. However, it was these experiences that once plunged him into social anxiety. In the current era, we check Moments and post on Moments every day or even every hour. Once we indulge in virtual applause, we tend to lose ourselves. Therefore, through reflection, Yang told everyone that to find inner tranquility, we needed to try more and even make some mistakes.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, are you a person who follows your heart? Or will your decisions be influenced by people around you? Year 4 student Zhili Zhao encouraged us by her own experience to try hard to follow our hearts and do what we genuinely love. She decided to take a gap year to study beauty when she was a junior. Later she founded a beauty studio and gradually became an elite in the industry.
The guest speakers' insights and experiences have greatly helped the audience, guiding them to reflect on their current life and look forward to the future. Hopefully, everyone will complete their journey of university life with a more explicit purpose and more determination.
The Library Excel and PPT Online Training Courses were Successfully Completed
The XJTLU Library has successfully completed the delivery of PPT and EXCEL online training courses to the students. The online training took place from November 11 to December 17, 2020. Various lessons were taught during the session covering the aspects of PowerPoint slide design and EXCEL data analysis. About 1271 students registered and attended the sessions.
Two different lecturers delivered the EXCEL and the PPT courses for the whole sessions. Dealing with Data, the use of common formulas and chart editing aspects of EXCEL were taught in detail by Sunruo WU. Whereas, the design of cover pages and other PPT styles required for the graduating students’ thesis defense were comprehensively taught by Li LU.
As the Semester 1 of 2020/21 AY turned into hybrid, the Library adopted the dual teaching approach to ensure all the students are given equal and pair learning opportunities irrespective of being on-site or off-site. This is in addition to the convenient and diversified helps offered to the students toward improving their study and work efficiency.
The feedback received from the attended students are very encouraging as they expressed their satisfactions on the invaluable experiences gained out of it. Meanwhile some suggestions to further improve the training sessions in future were welcomed by the tutors. The training sessions ended in cheers!
XJTLU Circulation Librarian Speaks at 2020 Sino-Foreign University Library Annual Conference
Pin Wang, Associate Circulation Librarian of User Service Division, gave a presentation at the second session of the 2020 Sino-Foreign University Library Annual Conference.
The session was held online by Wenzhou-Kean University on September 11, focusing on the innovative and special service for academic libraries. In her 20 minutes’ speech, Pin shared her understanding of Library Marketing and Promotion from the perspective of her work experience at XJTLU Library. Her talk aimed to answer three questions: what represents marketing, why is marketing important nowadays, and what are the approaches in marketing the library. She also elaborated on the marketing approaches applied by XJTLU Library, including digital engagement, library spaces, events and activities, library mascot, collaboration and so forth.
“I’m honored to speak at the conference. “Pin said. “It is a great opportunity for us to share our experience at XJTLU Library as well as learn from other libraries’ achievements.”
Curriculum: New Feature in OPAC Helps Users Find Reference Books in the Library
A New feature goes live in the Library Catalogue System this week. The feature is called “curriculum”, through which the Library users can easily find the reference books of their modules in the Library collection.
To use the new feature, go to the Library Catalogue System via http://opac.xjtlu.edu.cn and click “Curriculum”.
In “curriculum”, it currently covers the reference books in Semester 1 of Academic Year 2020/21. And one copy of the reference books, as always, is placed in Course Reserves, which can only be borrowed for one day so as to expedite circulation and increase accessibility.
IPads Installed for Users to Search the Library Catalogue
The Library has installed 10 iPads as Library Catalogue Searching Machines on the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th and 9th floors.
Due to long service life, Information Checking Machines in the Library can no longer provide satisfactory service to the users. In order to improve user experience, 10 iPads have been put into use as a replacement. Specially set for searching the Library Catalogue, these iPads are installed at the end of the bookshelves, two devices on each floor, allowing users to easily access the library book information while browsing the bookshelves.
The Library Catalogue Searching Machines, a new and quick way of catalogue search, mark a step forward in the innovative service the Library has for its users.
Tsinghua University Library colleagues visited the XJTLU Library
On the 19th of November 2020, a group of 6 people including Yunzhong JIANG, Tsinghua University library’s Party Committee Secretary, and Tianfang DOU, deputy director of the Tsinghua University library, visited the XJTLU library to develop communication. Dr. Xin BI, Director of Centre for Knowledge and Information and the University Librarian, extended a warm welcome to the visiting colleagues from Tsinghua University Library. Accompanied by Dr. Xin BI, the library colleagues of Tsinghua University visited the XJTLU campus and library. Thereafter, the two libraries held a communication symposium attended by Yang Liping and Teng Chao, both deputy University Librarian of the XJTLU library.
At the symposium, Secretary Yunzhong JIANG introduced the Library space, collection, history, special collections and organizational structure of Tsinghua library, and Dr. Xin BI introduced the administrative structure, committee structure, relationship with the two alma maters, library information technology services, and services provided by the XJTLU library in regards to teaching materials and resources during the pandemic period. Deputy Director Tianfang DOU shared Tsinghua University's data integration, and academic output data services undertaken by the library. Afterwards, the two sides exchanged, shared and discussed electronic resource assessment, institutional repository, RFID, seat management systems and other related issues, and thus hoped to strengthen the exchange and cooperation between the two libraries.
This exchange took place against the background of the 14th five-year plan, and as such the exchange focused on the theme of "Exchange and Learning Management Styles, exploring a new mode of Education - International University in China". The exchange broadened the horizons and ideas of both sides, strengthened the connection between the two libraries, and built a bridge for our library to learn from leading libraries in the industry, and constantly improve its business level services, which is of positive significance to the future work of our library.
Congratulations to our winners of the Second "Library Cup" Oral English Contest for College Students!
On June 27, 2020, after a 60-day intense competition, with a total of 9102 contestants, the second “Library Cup” Oral English Contest for College Students came to a successful close. The XJTLU students competed well with excellent results.
- Zhangxu Chen from the International Business School of grade 18 won second place - with 174.42 points.
- Siqi Xue from the English Department of grade 17 won third place with 172.58 points.
- Library staff member Xiang Deng won the reward for outstanding instructor.
Congratulations to all of them!
For more information about this news, please visit https://lib.xjtlu.edu.cn/node/663
XJTLU Library has been awarded the “Reading SIP 2020” Excellent Organisation Award
In December 2020, the Publicity Department of Suzhou Industrial Park (Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau) awarded the XJTLU Library with the “Reading SIP 2020” excellent organisation award.
The XJTLU Library has become a center of campus cultural exchange activities and due to its rich collection of resources and pleasant reading environment, has become the main platform of reading promotion activities. Through cultural brand activities and integrating various reading promotion elements, the students can explore their own interests further and develop a greater understanding. The Library fulfill its responsibility of culture promotion and a harmonious atmosphere creation through the reading activities, and to promote the Reading Atmosphere of the whole XJTLU.
XJTLU Library Introduces "Shuxiang SIP" Self-service Bookcase
To optimize user experience and continue providing diversified services, XJTLU Library has currently strengthened its cooperative relationship with Suzhou Industrial Park Library by introducing a ‘Shuxiang SIP’ self-service bookcase.
Suzhou Industrial Park Library has a large variety of Chinese resources, which shares books with XJTLU Library. Its resources have always been a useful supplement to XJTLU Library's English collections. Through the online borrowing system, XJTLU staff members and students can easily borrow books from SIP Library without leaving the campus.
The "Shuxiang SIP" self-service bookcase is located at the east entrance of Central Building in North Campus, open 24 hours a day. Each SIP Library account can borrow 10 books with a 30-day loan period. For details, please check the official website of SIP Library https://pcc.sipac.gov.cn/library/ or call 4008367700.
Important Announcements
1. This self-service bookcase is provided by SIP Library therefore it only supports Chinese language operation interface.
2. This self-service bookcase is available for books provided by SIP Library only. Please do not return books from XJTLU Library via this machine.