HKUST Library is an active member of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee, which is a consortium of the libraries of the eight universities funded by the University Grants Committee. In 2014, years of coordination and work bore fruit when a new Hong Kong JULAC Common Library Card was launched.[12] 2014 also saw the launch of the large system-wide JULAC Shared ILS Project, which officially lasted from May 2014 through July 2017. The front-end of the new ILS at HKUST is called PowerSearch. HKUST Library systems staff have worked to use the capabilities of both Alma and Primo to create "Knowledge Cards", which enhance discovery via bibliographic linked data