On Thursday, November 19, 2009, the Library Forum sponsored a presentation by Ms. Shao Min and Ms. Xiang Yang about the Tsinghua University Library, Cornell's new "sister library." Ms. Shao, the Assistant Director of the Library, and Ms. Xiang, Director of the Administration Office, at Tsinghua Library, are spending over a month at Cornell to learn about our library operations. They are the first librarians from Tsinghua to visit since the Memorandum of Understanding between the two libraries was signed on October 29, 2009.

Ms. Shao and Ms. Xiang provided an overview of the Tsinghua University Library and discussed their Library's major projects and priorities, covering topics such as the library organization, its staff appointment process, e-resource portal, open access, institutional repository, and digitization projects, and public services initiatives, including information literacy, outreach, and fee-based services.