With the launch of READ@PolyU programme, about 2,500 first-year-first-degree PolyU students will each be given an English novel for free. They could also join the discussion sessions and various activities to share their thoughts and common experience with staff and fellow students. The selected book for 2011/12 is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, a bestseller which takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present.

A special ceremony commemorating the launch of READ@PolyU programme was held at the University’s Pao Yue-kong Library on 8 September. Being the territory’s first campus-wide common reading programme among local universities, it aims at enhancing students’ language ability and appreciate multi-cultural issues with reference to the local context.

In addition, the Library showed its newly renovated area to guests at the Open House held on 6 September. Officiating at the event included the Hon. Michael Suen, Secretary for Education, and Dr Peter Woo, former Council Chairman of PolyU. Details>>