Electronic digitisation programmes •
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of North America, of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Conducted a pilot project to
under its new Global Membership
determine the effectiveness of the
Program, giving us access to over
inclusion of HKU theses in the
4 million additional publications
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
within the CRL collections through
database. Abstracts of 425 MPhil and
interlibrary loans and/or electronic
PhD theses were submitted. •
Published an online version of the Fung Ping Shan Rare Book Catalogue
delivery. •
Project. With the assistance of Dr
書錄》, a collection of 704 titles in
Chan Chi-wah from the Project,
11,427 volumes, including books
HKUL contributed records to RLIN
published from the 13th to 19th
(Research Libraries Information
centuries and manuscripts dating
Network), the bibliographic
back to the Ming dynasty.
database of the Research Library Group, an international library
Global collaborative programmes Contributed 45,758 original cataloguing records to the Online Computer Library Consortia’s WorldCat database which placed HKUL second in the world, ahead of Oxford University at 39,322 records. These cataloguing records are then shared and copied by libraries worldwide when using WorldCat.
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Joined the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Chinese Rare Books
《香港大學馮平山圖書館藏善本
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Became the first member, outside
consortia headquartered in the US, to help build an international union catalogue of Chinese rare books. •
Initiated a benchmarking exercise with 15 libraries from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the US. The goal was to determine how HKUL’s programme compares with that of libraries in significant research universities worldwide.