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The Past and Present of Ancient Chinese Books

Theme of activity: The Past and Present of Ancient Chinese Books Speaker: Xiuli Han, Chaonan Yin Content: The speakers will talk about how to preserve and bind ancient books so the readers will gain knowledge about this to resemble and keep their own productions with library’s signet. Time: 26th December 14:00 – 16:30 Location: Library multi-function room Enroll: To sign up for the event, click the link below : https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xSAmKRCuU0Wsz2jsgDJQCGa5lgNHVHBNs9W06YQRBZZUODZQSEcyNkdRS1I1QTFZQzQ2OFdUOVpIOS4u *Due to the limit of materials and the space required, participants are limited up to 30 and the first come first serve, and successful applicants will be notified by emails from the library.

Keeping the Past to Inspire the Future— Exhibition on Chinese Traditional Door God, Calligraphy and Paintings

Pasting the Door God is one of the most ancient ritual of Spring Festival which has roots tracing back to the Zhou Dynasty . The predecessor of the Door God is called Taofu, also known as “peach board”. It is the two “Peach Man” carved from the mahogany named Shentu and Yulei; after a long history of development, the Chinese art of painting has become a perfect system with a clear concept, a clear scope, stable characteristics, and distinct appearance. Honouring this tradition, an exhibition is going to be held. In this exhibition, 8 works of the collection of Gods, collected by Zhejiang University Library, are being displayed in the library of International Campus, along with 23 pieces of high-definition restoration paintings, including works of Door God with delicate lines, ink paintings with strokes of thin and thick inks, and calligraphy with full swing of lines and plentiful ink. Moreover, typographical works that record traditional techniques, are rich in form and diverse in content. “Thousands and thousands of households will replace the old Taofu with the new ones.” This conversion of new and old, the extension is the righteousness and pinning hope annually for thousands of years. It acts as a symbol of hope to bring happiness and wealth .This exhibition will be accompanied by interactive activities – about how to bind ancient books, to inspire readers’ passion about the books, history and traditional culture . Theme of exhibition : Keeping the Past to Inspire the Future— Exhibition on Chinese Traditional Door God, Calligraphy and Paintings Exhibition Time :- 25th December 2018 –February 2019 Location : 2nd floor open space corridor, International Campus Library Sponsor : Library & Information Center of International Campus of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University Library Theme of activity : The Past and Present of Ancient Chinese Books Speaker :- Xiuli Han, Chaonan Yin Content :-The speakers will talk about how to preserve and bind ancient books so the readers will gain knowledge about this to resemble and keep their own productions with library’s signet. Time of activity : 26th December 14:00 – 16:30 Location of activity : Library multi-function room Enroll: To sign up for the event, click the link below : https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xSAmKRCuU0Wsz2jsgDJQCGa5lgNHVHBNs9W06YQRBZZUODZQSEcyNkdRS1I1QTFZQzQ2OFdUOVpIOS4u **Due to the limit of materials and the space required participants are limited up to 30 and the first come first serve , enrollment should be done before 25th December 12:00,and successful applicants will be notified by emails from the library. Library and Information Center Dec. 24th, 2018

The ‘Yunyue Reading’ Recommendation Service Is Now Available

In order to respond more promptly to readers' needs for new books and simplify the borrowing process of new books , the library is now offering ‘Yunyue Reading’ online recommendation service to students in the campus. ‘Yun Yue Reading’ is a new book delivery service platform launched by Zhejiang University Library. The platform provides one-stop service for book recommendation, ordering and borrowing. The readers recommend the new book from the ‘Yun Yue Reading’ platform, then receive the book by delivery before library purchase it, which greatly shorten the time for readers to borrow new Chinese books. i. Users: all students in the international campus ii. Books Available: Chinese new books published after 2017 iii. Borrowing Rules: enjoy 40 days of borrowing, books are cannot be renewed; each reader can borrow up to 3 books and can continue to borrow after returning; iv. Procedure: register and login online - order online – deliver and receive books - return to the Information Desk on the first floor of the library 1. Register and Login 1) PC: go to the website http://www.yuntaigo.com/zju.html and login. 2) WeChat: search ‘Yun Yue Reading’ entrance of Zhejiang University Library Official Account, click the menu bar at the bottom - Service - ‘Yun Yue Reading’, or scan Zhejiang University ‘Yun Yue Reading’ QR code directly Note:  Fill in the account and password of Zhejiang University Pass for unified identity authentication. Before login, you need to activate your unified identity authentication.  First time to login, users need to bind mobile phones 2. Order and Deliver: Order online, send books to you After receiving the book, please go to the ‘Yun Yue Reading’ platform personal center and confirm that you have received the book. 3. Return: The book needs to be returned to the information desk on the first floor of the library. If you have any questions, please consult the librarians: Tel: 0571-87572288 Email: library@intl.zju.edu.cn Library Information Center December 21st, 2018

[Lecture on Live] Making Your Point More Powerful

Lecture Topic: Making Your Point More Powerful Speaker: Lin Rushi (rslin@zju.edu.cn) Time: Dec. 21st 2018, 15:30-16:30p.m., Friday Location: Library Multi-function Room, 1st Floor Participants: Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates Introduction: As PPT is one of the most useful tools on study and at work, a perfect PPT will make your presentation clear and strong. You can find out problems of your own PPT as well as ideas to handle various kinds of PPT during the lecture. Language: Chinese For more lecture information, please see http://lib.intl.zju.edu.cn/en/content/872567 Library and Information Center Dec. 19th, 2018

[Notice] Publicity on the Proposed Ordering Printed Periodicals in 2019

Dear all: After preliminary investigation, combined with the actual use of journals, library intends to order the existing 18 foreign periodicals(see the following table). The public notice period is from December 18th to December 24th. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send an email to library@intl.zju.edu.cn. The proposed ordering foreign printed periodicals in 2019 are as below: No. Issue Title ISSN Quantity 1 500B0017 Scientific American 0036-8733 1 2 291B0007 Harvard Business Review 0017-8012 1 3 300C0053 The Spectator 0038-6952 1 4 268B0054 National Geographic. 0027-9358 1 5 270B0011-3 Bloomberg BusinessWeek. (Global Edition) 0007-7135 1 6 270B0017 Fortune. (Asia Pacific Ed.)(Text in English) 0738-5587 1 7 270C0001 Economist. 0013-0613 1 8 300B0004 Time. (Domestic Ed.) 0040-781X 1 9 300B0005 Time. (Asia Ed.) 1064-0304 1 10 300B0006 Newsweek. (Domestic Ed.) 0028-9604 1 11 300B0015-1 Reader's Digest. (U.S. Edition) 0034-0375 1 12 300B0255 People Weekly. 0093-7673 1 13 375B0058 Library Journal. 0363-0277 1 14 420C0001 Times Literary Supplement. 0307-661X 1 15 489C0097 BBC Music Magazine; The Complete Monthly Guide to Classical Music. 0966-7180 1 16 500B0008 Science. 0036-8075 1 17 500B0186 Discover. 0274-7529 1 18 500C0004-A Nature. (Weekly Delivery) 0028-0836 1 Library and Information Center Dec. 18th, 2018

[RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION] TRIAL ON Gale Scholar Database

Gale Scholar is a supportive project launched by Gale publishing group mainly targeting at 10 top universities in China. It offers 170 million pages of rare primary source content covering 500 years of international history, including not only books, but thousands of declassified files, government documents, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs from the world’s great libraries, such as British Library, Library of Congress, US National Archives, The National Archives, as well as libraries of Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, etc. The titles in Gale Scholar cover diverse subjects over a sweeping period of history from the 15th century to the present day, such as history, philosophy, society, education, international relationships, politics, economics, literature, law and art. Access address: https://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/jiang Access control: only campus available (for off-campus access requirements, please contact with zadl@zju.edu.cn using ZJU email) Access deadline: 15, Jan, 2019 Library and Information Center December 10th, 2018

Work with Office 365 – Power BI Primer

Lecture Topic: Work with Office 365 – Power BI Primer Speaker: Chen Qi(chenqi@intl.zju.edu.cn ) Time: Dec. 7th 2018, 16:15-17:00p.m., Friday Location: Library Multi-function Room, 1st Floor Participants: All Language: Chinese Introduction: Power BI is a cloud-based analytics service that enables below, in this class, you will learn basic data processing concept and visualization skills based on Power BI • fast and easy access to your data • data discovery and exploration • insights from any device • collaboration across your organization • anyone to visualize and analyze data

Work with Office365 – OneDrive & Forms

Lecture Topic: Work with Office365 – OneDrive & Forms Speaker: Wang Luqi(luqiwang @intl.zju.edu.cn) Time: Nov. 23th 2018, 16:15-17:00p.m., Friday Location: Library Multi-function Room, 1st Floor Participants: All Brief Introduction: 1. OneDrive adds a number of great features to Office365 file storage and sharing. Take a look at top favourite features. Get a solid introduction to OneDrive if you have not used it before and learn some new tips and tricks if you are already familiar. 2. See how to create a survey, send it out, and analyze the results with this tutorial of Microsoft's Forms offered in Office 365. MS Forms offers several different question types and gives you different ways to send the survey out to your respondents. 3. Meanwhile, basic function s of office lens will be introduce, like how to transfer a picture into a PDF or a Word file. Language: English Library and Information Center