Novmber 26th ,after two weeks of friendly exchange and cooperation, Professor Gerard Hogan of the Central Washington University successfully completed his residence in the library of LUFE.

During the residence, Professor Gerard Hogan, drawing on the experience of the library of Central Washington University of the United States, carried out embedded classroom teaching for the graduate students of the School of Statistics, the School of Accounting and the School of Finance of LUFE for the first time, with teaching sharing activities entitled "Library Research in Statistics", "Some Approaches to Successful Publication in Accounting" and "DateBases Found for Finance". Embedded teaching, means teachers pertinently recommends resourses, retrieves literature and collects data related to the course content according to the requirements of teachers. After class, the graduate students generally responded favorably. They believed that the library, with rich contents, diversified forms of resources and advanced techniques and platforms, combines services with teachings, which reflects the student-centered concept and is worthy of further promotion.

Through theme discussion and exchange in the library, Gerard Hogan made a detailed introduction of the library of Central Washington University in terms of building layout, personnel structure and resources construction. The librarians of  LUFE had in-depth communications and exchange with Professor Gerard Hogan regarding subject service content, information literacy education, reading promotion, reference service, English writing skills and so forth. Professor Gerard Hogan also provided the library with the list of information literacy courses, responsibilities of library staff, training rules of library staff and other materials from Central Washington University.

In addition, Gerard Hogan was pleased to accept the invitation of the Student Readers Council to be interviewed by students on the issues of inter-library exchanges and cooperations, the implementation of reading promotion programs, and how libraries can better provide services for  students. On the evening of November 21th, Professor Gerard Hogan was invited to attend the reading sharing session of  Yu Hua's Living, which was organized by the students. He shared with the students his views on the social phenomena revealed by Living, the analysis of relevant characters in the book, the understanding of the theme of “living” and the influence of the book on himself.

It is the first time for the library of LUFE to carry out in-depth cooperation and exchange with foreign counterparts while accepting resident librarian     in the library.On this basis, the library will be open to further implement LUFE educational philosophy, establish substantial cooperation with the high-level counterparts, draw lessons from foreign advanced management experience to provide better service for teaching and scientific research and play a positive role in the construction of first-class characteristic disciplines.