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Library is an essential component of the academic infrastructure of HKIT in support of teaching and learning as well as research in the areas of business and management, hotel and tourism management, computer and information technology

HKIT Library offers a wide variety of services, such as:

  1. information and library support to students and teaching staff
  2. library tutorials and orientation programmes for students and teaching staff
  3. assistance to students and teaching staff on the access to electronic resources
  4. liaison with teaching staff on library collection development
  5. liaison with professional bodies regarding sharing of library resources via student membership arrangement
  6. liaison with other tertiary institutions regarding inter-library loan arrangements
  7. liaison with partner university in joint development of electronic library
  8. Assist the alumni in their life-long learning

 

Library collections include both printed and electronic resources. Users can search the library holdings via the electronic library catalogue. Currently the catalogue contains records of more than 10,000 items, which include both English and Chinese materials. The majority of the library materials are available for loan. Users can easily access the electronic library catalogue for book searching, reservation and renewal services.

Users can use the computers in the Library to access the teaching CDs, DVDs and Video-recorded Lectures of each course of the academic programmes delivered in HKIT. Study guides, research reports/projects and past examination papers are also available. Through the HKIT’s website (www.hkit.edu.hk), users can gain access not only to the library system but also to electronic resources, e.g. free Internet resources and electronic journal databases subscribed by HKIT as detailed below.
 

Besides the 40 titles of hard copy periodicals, the Library has subscribed to the electronic journal databases for conducting academic research and assignment preparation – EBSCO database. At present, the Library has 5 EBSCO products, namely:

  1. Business Source Elite (full text of nearly 1,100 titles of business publications)
  2. CINAHL with Full Text
  3. Regional Business News (full text of 75 titles of business journals, newspapers and newswires within the United States)
  4. ERIC (more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC – the Educational Resource Information Center)
  5. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings)

Students will be assigned individual passwords for access to the services and resources of the partner Australian university (Southern Cross University), including a wide range of electronic resources e.g. electronic journals, electronic books, etc. In addition, electronic resources copyright warning is posted on the notice board to heighten users’ awareness of the need to abide by copyright laws.
 

In order to provide a comfortable learning environment for students, HKIT has set up a new library in the Breezy Path campus with a large space area of over 5,000 square feet. About 102 seats and workstations are available in the reading area and in the computer laboratory. A wireless local area network is also available in the Library. Photocopying machine equipped with Octopus payment machine system is installed. Students are constantly educated and reminded of the copyright issue with the aid of a warning notice posted next to the machine. Books delivery service from Breezy Path campus to Cheung Sha Wan campus is implemented so that part-time students can easily obtain useful reference materials.

The opening hours of the Library are extended to cover late afternoon on Saturday to meet the needs of the users, especially part-time students. At this moment, the library opening hours are as follows:
Monday to Friday 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday and Public Holidays Closed

During Summer Semester, the opening hours are :
Monday to Friday 9:30am – 1:00pm,
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Saturday 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday and Public Holidays Closed


 

HKIT Library is continuously striving its best to provide a comfortable learning environment for students and to deliver an efficient and effective service through quality-conscious staff. The Library also serves as a bridge between the Institution and the alumni. The “one-alumnus-one-book donation campaign” is an example. The purpose of this campaign is three-fold. Firstly, it is a very good vehicle to maintain a close relationship between the Institution and the alumni. Secondly, the library collections can be enriched and enlarged. And lastly, the library services can be an effective means to encourage and help the alumni in their life-long learning. As a result, they may further their studies towards higher degrees or professional qualifications.


 
Contact:
Tel: 2782-2433 ext 300