Month: May 2025

【Long Overdue Policy】

To ensure that all readers can borrow what they need, we’re introducing a new overdue policy effective 1 Jul 2025.

  • 21 Days Overdue: Your account will be blocked until the item is returned.
  • 35 Days Overdue: The item will be considered lost, incurring a $100 processing fee plus the replacement cost.

Let’s join forces to provide HKSYUers with essential teaching and learning resources! Thank you for your cooperation. 

【Summer Reading Contract 2025】

Hello Students from the Department of English Language and Literature,

Summer Reading Contract 2025 is back! Enjoy your summer reading time.

  • Display Period (3/F, Library): 19 May 2025 – 30 May 2025
  • Borrowing Period: 2 Jun 2025 – 30 Sep 2025
  • Contract Verification Period: 1 Sep 2025 – 30 Sep 2025

List of the Physical Books:
https://hksyu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=852HKSYU_INST:HKSYU&collectionId=81182069090007546&lang=en

List of the E-Books:
https://hksyu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=852HKSYU_INST:HKSYU&collectionId=81182069100007546&lang=en

(*Please note that within this timeframe, only students and teachers affiliated with the Department of English Language and Literature are eligible to borrow these books.)

【Five Things to Know Before Summer Break】

1. Return all borrowed library materials before the break if you plan to travel.

2. Settle all your fines and fees with the library before the break, especially if you are going to graduate this year.

3. A new long-overdue policy will be implemented in July:

  • On the 21st day after the due date, your library account will be blocked.
  • On the 35th day after the due date, if the borrowed item remains unreturned, the item will be assumed lost by the borrower.  A non-refundable processing fee of $100 will be charged to your library account.  You will also be billed a replacement fee for the lost item.

4. The Library will have summer opening hours from 15 May to 16 August 2025. Click here for details.

5. Check “My Circulation Record” to ensure all loan records are up-to-date.

【Database on Trial】ProQuest One Psychology (with AI Research Assistant)

ProQuest One Psychology offers “one-stop access” to a variety of resources, including research studies, theories, therapies, tests & measures, and more, all within a user-friendly interface designed to support the needs of psychology and counselling curricula across research, teaching, and learning. 

An AI-powered research companion within the platform, ProQuest Research Assistant helps you craft better, more targeted searches, more effectively review, analyze, and interrogate documents, and better understand your research topic and the wider subject.

 It is now available for a trial period until 31 May 2025. 

 Access link: https://bit.ly/pq1psytrial

【Library Summer Opening Hours 圖書館暑假開放時間】

From 15 May 2025 (Thu) to 16 Aug 2025 (Sat), the library opening hours will be adjusted as follows.

Monday to Friday: 

9:00 am – 6:00 pm 

Saturday:

  • 17 May 2025 to 5 Jul 2025: 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • 12 Jul 2025 to 16 Aug 2025: Library Closed

 5月15日至8月16日期間，圖書館開放時間將調整如下:   

星期一至星期五 : 

9:00 am – 6:00 pm 

星期六 : 

  • 5月17日至7月5日 : 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • 7月12日至8月16日 : 閉館