College life can be exciting but daunting for students. This session focuses on what success means and offers strategies to get there, as recommended by the book On Course: Strategies for Success in College, Career, and Life by Skip Downing and Jonathan Brennan.

During the Renaissance, art and medicine shared a spirit of rediscovering the human being. No longer merely content to follow old authorities, they turned to observation, practice, and reflection, seeking new understanding in the human body, proportion, space, and the phenomena of life. Art depicted human form and emotion through line, color, and composition; medicine came to understand the human body and life through observation, recording, and inquiry. Though seemingly different, they inspired each other in the same era: art made medicine visible, while medicine brought art closer to reality. Shared themes such as perspective, proportion, structure, and form allowed art and medicine to intertwine and grow in the soil of the Renaissance. Dates: Sep.17th, 2026 - Oct.18th, 2026 Location: First Floor, Library Welcome to visit the exhibition. Library Sep. 17th, 2026

【Lecture Preview】 Lecture Topic: Literature Review Before Research Proposal - Science and Engineering ‌Speaker‌: Li Yi Date‌: Friday, Sep. 18, 2026 Time‌: 15:30-16:30 Mode‌: Online Language: Chinese Location: Library Multi-function Room, 1st Floor Lecture Introduction: This lecture introduced a series of literature retrieval methods related to the thesis proposal, including how to select databases, how to conduct searches, how to read and analyze literature, and so on. Taking specific research topics as examples, it provided in-depth explanations and operational demonstrations on expanding search terms, formulating search formulas, adjusting and finalizing search formulas, etc., aiming to improve everyone's ability to retrieve and utilize literature resources and help them successfully complete the thesis proposal. The library launches the "Information Literacy Training" every academic year, aiming to cultivate humanities literacy, information literacy, data literacy, intellectual property literacy, media literacy, and scientific research literacy among faculty, staff and students, empowering them to achieve academic breakthroughs and comprehensive development in the digital era. This semester, the Information Literacy Lectures consist of ‌13 sessions‌, covering topics such as literature search, practical tool usage, AI literacy, paper publication. Among them, there are ‌5 live lectures‌. Whether you are an undergraduate exploring the beginnings of academia, a researcher deeply engaged in a project, or a faculty member pursuing lifelong education, you will find a path for advancement here! Library Sep.17, 2026

How do tiny behavioral changes lead to remarkable long-lasting results? How do you make the most of college life? What kind of person do you choose to become? Collaborating with the Language Center, iZJU library organizes a one-book project each year to help freshman students ease into college life more quickly through books and reading. This year, we invited Julia NG to talk about the above questions with you through the following three books and sessions. Speaker: Julia Ng Introduction: ‌ Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University, USA. She is a CELTA‑qualified language teacher and has delivered a wide range of English courses at universities across China for more than a decade. An avid reader of psychology and personal growth, she believes reading for pleasure is underrated in this TikTok era of instant gratification. Reading sharpens the mind, quenches one's desire for novelty, and compels us to challenge our ways of thinking and being - something that she hopes, through her book lectures, will inspire freshman students to experience for themselves. Activities: Session Event Time Book Session One Tiny Changes Transform You: The Power of Atomic Habits 12:00-13:00 September 17,2026 Thursday Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones Session Two Practical Strategies: Make the Most of Your College Life 12:00-13:00, September 23, 2026 Wednesday On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life Session Three Explore Within: Decide Who You Want to Be 12:00-13:00, September 30, 2026 Wednesday What Life Should Mean to You Session One： Tiny Changes Transform You: The Power of Atomic Habits This book shows how tiny behavioral changes lead to remarkable long-lasting results. In this session, we will take a look at some of the strategies to build good habits proposed by James Clear in his best-selling book Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones and how they can be incorporated into freshman students’ lives. Time: 12:30-13:10, September 17, 2026 – Thursday Location: Multifunction Room, 1st Floor, Library Language: English Participants: Freshmen Notes： Not just the three books, we have a booklist for freshmen, please go to our book exhibition for freshmen in the library. For more detailed information, please refer to: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DWzwb9C2uhypV81SWN7fdg How to Participant: Click the link to join us: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/jv4wVXfen9 Scan the QR code below to join us: Library September 16, 2026

A world of new knowledge, a hall of books. Some of the Library’s 2026 newly purchased Chinese and foreign-language books have been shelved and are now on display in the Library Atrium. The exhibition features new academic works in campus-related disciplines such as biomedical sciences, engineering, and business, as well as popular titles in literary classics, history and humanities, biography, and art appreciation. These new books await readers, inviting you to broaden your horizons and draw strength from the written word. Venue: Library Atrium Dates: Now through October 8, 2026 This batch includes 963 foreign-language books and 1,900 Chinese-language books. See the attachment for the full list. Reading is always rewarding. All readers are welcome to visit the exhibition and find a book they love! Library September 16, 2026