Expand the Library for '3+3+4'
Preserve the Beacon for Posterity

Extract of minutes of the 22nd meeting of the Library Users Group

• 'The Square might be closed during the construction period, but the outlook of the Square should remain the same after the construction of the basement.'

Extract of minutes of the 5th meeting of the Building Committee on Library Extension

• 'Excavation of basement must be commenced immediately after Congregation Ceremony in December 2009 in order to allow re-instatement of the Beacon, Forum and Garden for the ceremony in the following year.'
• 'Three elements—Beacon, Brushes [sic] and the Forum needed to be re-instated exactly as it was—consideration for their temporary storage, method of removal and re-instatement—survey record of existing Forum, Garden and Beacon.'

Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor, told the students at the meeting with students at Cultural Square organized by the Chinese University Student Union that 'no alteration would be made to the University Square and that the repository of so much of our history, the Beacon, must be reinstated in its existing form when construction is completed.'

Open letter from Prof. Ching Pak-chung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Expand the Library for '3+3+4'   Preserve the Beacon for Posterity

Open letter from Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor

The Beacon to be Preserved, Construction Plan to be Discussed

Letter to CUHK Student Union by Prof. Ching Pak-chung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Open letter from Prof. Ching Pak-chung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Library Extension: a New Option of Integrity