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Frank Bacon's Hong Kong collected 284 black and white photographs taken by amateur photographer Frank Bacon shown the early twentieth century of Hong Kong.

The library has purchased or subscribed number of new electronic resources as below since March 2021, covering different subjects and languages.

Significant Special Collections Acquisition

Frank Bacon’s Hong Kong: Early Twentieth Century Photograph Album of Hong Kong

Lacquer album with 284 black and white photographs taken by amateur photographer Frank Bacon laid down on 49 card pages. The vast majority of images, though are photos taken in Hong Kong, and most have been carefully labelled in pencil, most likely by Arthur Hacker, Hong Kong historian and author from whose collection this album comes. There are photos of family and friends in the married quarters, and numerous images of the landscape of Hong Kong, including the dockyard, Aberdeen Harbour, Queens Road, Grand Houses on the Peak, the Peak Tramway, Happy Valley racecourse, the City Hall and Supreme Court under construction, the Praya and the Star Ferry.

One photo depicts early land reclamation work around Victoria harbour. The photographer (who is shown with his camera in one photo) was clearly accomplished, and took many photos of street scenes and everyday life in Hong Kong: among them, pictures of street-sellers, a street barber, a professional letter writer, water carriers, dragon-boat racers and life on sampans. There are also some graphic images of the execution ground. The life of expatriate military officers is captured in images of a Hong Kong bar frequented by British troops, and of a billiard room with an early gramophone. A few photos were also taken in Macao, including the Macao steamer wharf.

Location: University Library UL Closed Stack (DS796.H743 B26 1904)

New Electronic Resources

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides instruction and advice scientists need to master the art of scientific communication. It covers all the publishing styles for ACS publications plus the additional contents on communication methods and data organization.

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings

It delves into the cultural study of music and explore content from across the globe with this diverse and comprehensive collection. Produced in collabo-ration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

GIBLIB

GIBLIB is an online platform providing surgical videos, medical lectures and courses created by leading medical institutions including Mayo Clinic, UCSF, and Cedars Sinai. Its unique features include 360-degree virtual reality videos of surgical procedures featuring surgeon points-of-view and other angles to showcase support provided by the surgical team.

Nkoda

It is a sheet music library. An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts. Giving you direct and unlimited access to the publishers’ catalogues in app or via a browser. Explore the eclectic collection on Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Puccini, Verdi, Stravinsky, Reich, Pink Floyd, Einaudi, Radiohead, Xenakis, Bach, and many more artists waiting for you in the Nkoda library. Create an individual nkoda account by authenticating your CUHK email address. Send your request to institutions@nkoda.com. Each user will be given a unique, one-time link for access.

Huamulan Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

The Hua Mulan Digital Database contains two sub-libraries: Chinese Traditional Culture Research Series and Chinese Modern and Contemporary Culture and Literature Research Series. It contains six important academic works on traditional Chinese culture research in the past 30 years, and the Republic of China period in the past 20 years. And the literary works of the People's Republic period.

Digital Image Collections of Republic of China (1911-1949)

It mainly collects Chinese historical image data from 1911 to 1949 and a small amount of late Qing Dynasty. The library is divided into 4 sub-libraries, Republic of China characters, historical events, people's livelihood, 13 and architectural landscape. And use data timeline, character association, and map to find resources to find pictures.