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This year, the Library has experienced an exciting, inspirational and fun summer. We saw exhibits featuring great design, artistic and historical elements with works of different media and formatting, and from multiple time periods.
For the first time, the Library collaborated with IELM to exhibit students' project work and class assignments. The Design Thinking course is a joint summer program offered by HKUST and The China Academy of Art (CAA). The exhibits, jointly completed by students from the two institutes, integrated both product design and media design elements. During the opening ceremony, officiating guests and participants were greatly amazed by students' innovative designs and technical knowledge in developing the exciting products. The exhibition ended on August 8 and we look forward to seeing the fruits of next year's efforts.
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Thanks to Prof Ian Holliday of the University of Hong Kong for loaning us the exhibits, we are able to show a second set of contemporary paintings from Myanmar, following the success of the previous display. These unique paintings, completed in the recent reform period, provide a snapshot of a critical time in Myanmar's development from strict authoritarian rule to a quasi-civilian government that set about implementing a series of major political reforms. The exhibition will run through December 31.
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Located in our new Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Ko Pui Shuen Gallery on 1/F, this exhibition featured items from the University Archives and one of the Library's special collections: Nigensha's reproduction of calligraphy and paintings. Exhibits included the mold of the University logo, the plaque of our campus construction site, site photos from the early 90s, and debut issues of University publications. The calligraphy and paintings are reproductions from the masterpieces in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. They included marvelous works by famous painters and calligraphers of the Song and Qing dynasties.
In the Fall Semester, 3 exhibitions will be on stage: Art from the Heart: Recent Works by Shen Ping
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Born in Beijing, Mr. Shen Ping received his art education in Shanghai and Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China National Academy of Fine Arts). He moved to Hong Kong in 1980, and started his own gallery and teaching center. He has published over one hundred works and held numerous exhibitions. His works are collected by many museums and private collectors. The exhibits showcase his recent work using two different media, namely, watercolor and pen sketching. Some of the works depict views of HKUST, which were specially painted for this exhibition.
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Highlighting the History of Science special collection, this exhibition is held in the Library's Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Ko Pui Shuen Gallery. Some valuable rare books by Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Newton are on display. Other items include models, videos, and reproductions of images from microfiche. Visitors will discover how humans learned about our place in the universe and how scientific knowledge is built and changes. Links to additional visual resources are facilitated by Augmented Reality (AR) to increase interactivity.
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Collaborating with the Undergraduate Core Education Team, we will display a new batch of student works, including photos, Chinese paintings, collages and installation arts from the Common Core Programs. This will be the third year since 2012/13 in which we partnered to promote student art on campus by providing an avenue to showcase students' outstanding art pieces. | 
