On the afternoon of Dec.5, 2014, the Fuxing Reading Festival was held at the Sino-British College, USST to celebrate centennial of the library as a famous historical building in the history of international education. Jiang Jiang, deputy director of Housing Authorities of Xuhui district and expert of historic building, Gu Bin, general manager of Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore, Wang Hongguang, Director of USST library, Yang Zuoping, USST Archive Director, Liu Bin, Secretary of Joint General Party Branch, Fuxing Campus, and Gordon Gallan, Director of Teaching and Learning at SBC were all in attendance atthe festival. Directors of other departments at SBC, foreign teacher representatives and student representatives also joined this festival.
Liu Bin, Secretary of Joint General Party Branch, Fuxing Campus, made the opening speech telling students to read more books and make the best of books and other learning resources available at the SBC library. He also encouraged students to work hard, realize their dreams and making contributions to development of China. Then, four SBC students recited “Of Studies” by Francis Bacon in English and Chinese, sharing in Bacon’s wisdom on reading.
SBC Library has purchased around 500 Chinese and foreign-language books for the newly established Arts Reading Room,thus providing a better reading environment for students. Gordon Gallan, Director of Teaching and Learning and Lin Ling, SBC’s Student Representative jointly inaugurated the Arts Reading Room. Then all the guests lighted candles on the birthday cake to celebrate the 100th anniversary of SBC Library. There also were historic photos of the library exhibition and foreign language book exhibition held at this festival.
Throughout the reading festival, SBC students not only had the opportunity to learn more about the history of SBC library but also received an education in the traditional arts of China.
