Dr. Shirley Wong
University Librarian
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Dr Shirley Chiu-wing Wong obtained her Bachelor of Science, Postgraduate Certificate in Education (with Distinction) and Advanced Diploma in Education (Psychology of Student Learning) from The University of Hong Kong. She was awarded the Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship for pursuing a Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies at University College London, and she received her doctoral degree in education from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Wong has been the University Librarian of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) since July 2012. She leads a team of innovative and dedicated Library staff to connect the PolyU community to a broad array of quality information resources and research services. In response to the paradigm shift in teaching and learning, the team provides services and facilities conducive to active learning and academic exchange. The PolyU Library, with its e-preferred acquisition policy, is becoming less as a space filled with book stacks, but more as an inspiring learning place where users actively construct their own knowledge, individually or in a group. It is the place where students learn and reflect, develop their critical thinking, and engage in a collaborative learning process. In 2018/19, there were 2.8M of entrance counts, the highest among all academic libraries in Hong Kong.
Dr. Wong was the principal investigator of the three-year project funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC) and participated by all eight UGC-funded universities. The project aimed to enhance information literacy (IL) among university students by developing and implementing a shared interactive IL online courseware, which has been delivered as the InfoLit for U MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) launched in 2018.
In Hong Kong, Dr. Wong has been the Chair of the Hong Kong Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) Learning Strategies Committee since 2012 and a member of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Archives Advisory Committee. She was the Chair of the JULAC in 2016/17, the Chair of the JULAC Copyright Committee from 2008 to 2012, the Chair of the JULAC Committee on Reference Services from 2005 to 2007, and the Secretary to and member of the then Heads of Universities Committee (HUCOM) Task Force on Copyright in Education from 2005 to 2012.
Internationally, Dr. Wong was the Chair of the Asia Pacific Executive Committee of OCLC in 2018/19. She was a member of the Broad of Directors of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) from 2014 to 2017, and a member of the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from 2009 to 2017.
