1990 December - First Hong Kong INNOPAC installation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was the first INNOPAC site in Hong Kong. HKUST Library was instrumental in bringing INNOPAC to East Asia and assisted Innovative Interfaces Inc. (III) in enhancing the system for full support of Chinese characters.
1996 October - Hong Kong (UGC) Innovative Users Group established
HKIUG was officially formed after the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) agreed to facilitate communication among local libraries to resolve mutual problems and to seek common practices in using INNOPAC. Representatives from seven JULAC libraries (BU, CityU, CUHK, HKPU, HKU, HKUST, and LU) attended the first group quarterly meeting in October 1996. Non-JULAC libraries attended the quarterly meetings as observers.
2000 October - HKIUG website launched
The HKIUG website (http://hkiug.ln.edu.hk/) was launched in October 2000. It is hosted and maintained by Lingnan University Library.
2000 November - First Annual HKIUG Meeting held at Hong Kong Baptist University
Over 130 participants from INNOPAC sites in Hong Kong and Japan attended the First Annual Meeting held at Hong Kong Baptist University. Representatives from III, Mr. Aaron Blazer and Ms. Jackie Lu, demonstrated the Millennium modules and answered questions from the floor. Since then, HKIUG Annual Meetings have become a yearly gathering for the sharing of ideas and experiences among INNOPAC/ Millennium users.
2001 November - Membership and name changed
HKIUG members unanimously agreed at the 19th Group Quarterly Meeting to accept non-JULAC libraries as full members. The group was renamed the Hong Kong Innovative Users Group. No longer a sub-committee of JULAC, it became an independent body.
2002 April - Hong Kong Baptist University Library won the first "Be Innovative!" Award
Hong Kong Baptist University Library won the first "Be Innovative!" Award for their interface facilitating the reviewing and ordering of vendor book lists and approval plan slips. The Award was presented to BU at the 10th Innovative Users Group Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, United States.
2003 July - Collaborative effort to resolve CJK and Unicode issues in Millennium
Catalogers and systems librarians from HKIUG member libraries formed a working group to study the CJK and Unicode issues in INNOPAC/Millennium. On behalf of HKIUG, the group submitted a proposal to III in September 2003, together with an enhanced EACC/Unicode mapping table for implementation in INNOPAC/Millennium.
2004 January - More CJK problems resolved
Mr. Ki Tat Lam, the Head of Library Systems at HKUST, was invited by III to visit its Headquarter in San Francisco to discuss CJK issues with its developers. The visit succeeded in clearing up major technical problems and led to the subsequent implementation of the HKIUG version of the EACC/Unicode mapping table.
2004 April - The University of Hong Kong Libraries won the "Be Innovative!" Award
The University of Hong Kong Libraries won the 2004 "Be Innovative!" Award to honor their computer program that harvests e-journal titles and holdings information from electronic resource providers. The Award was presented at the 12th Innovative Users Group Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
2005 February - HKIUG Unicode Task Force officially established
The HKIUG Unicode Task Force was established to maintain the CJK/Unicode resources produced by the HKIUG Unicode Project during 2003-2004. The Task Force was also charged with developing new resources; facilitating searching, display and retrieval of CJK records in library catalogs; and assisting member libraries in migrating to Unicode.
2005 September - HKALL launched
The Hong Kong Academic Library Link 香港高校圖書聯網(HKALL港書網) was launched in September 2005. It is a user-initiated borrowing system based on the INN-Reach software from III. HKALL enables students and staff from the eight HKIUG academic libraries to search and request books from a union catalog of over 4 million titles, with the materials delivered directly to them. Although similar projects exist in other parts of the world, HKALL is the first to include a large number of Chinese materials.
2006 May - The University of Hong Kong Libraries won the "Be Innovative!" Award again
The University of Hong Kong Libraries won the "Be Innovative!" Award to honor its use of a Microsoft Outlook Add-in to bring My Millennium circulation data into Outlook, and then hot-synchronize with various PDA devices. The Award was presented at the 14th Innovative Users Group Annual Conference at Denver, Colorado, United States.
2006 August - HKIUG released its CJK/Unicode Resources for open access
The HKIUG Unicode Task Force released the CJK/Unicode Resources developed over the past three years to the Internet for open access (http://hkiug.ln.edu.hk/unicode/). These resources include an EACC/Unicode Code table and two versions of the TSVCC (Traditional, Simplified, and Variant Chinese Characters) linking tables. Because these resources are a useful reference tool for colleagues at other CJK libraries, library systems implementers and developers, HKIUG decided to make them available to the larger community.
2006 December - HKIUG celebrates its 10th Anniversary
HKIUG is celebrating its 10th Anniversary at the 7th Annual HKIUG Meeting at HKUST. Special awards will be presented during the Meeting to honor members and institutions that were the most active in supporting the Annual Meetings.
Last revised on 31 March 2008