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

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

  • information and library support to students and academic staff members
  • library tutorials and orientation programmes for students and academic staff members
  • assistance to students and academic staff members on the access to electronic resources
  • liaison with academic staff members on library collection development
  • liaison with professional bodies regarding sharing of library resources via student membership arrangement
  • liaison with partner university in joint development of electronic library
  • liaison with the alumni in their life-long learning

In order to provide a comfortable learning environment for students, HKIT has set up a library in Breezy Path main campus with a space area of over 5,000 square feet. About 110 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 and also uploaded on the library website. 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.

LIBRARY OPENING HOURS

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

Summer Semester

Monday to Friday 9:30am – 1:00pm,
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Saturday 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday and Public Holidays Closed


 

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 guide, research reports/projects and past examination papers are also available as well as the newspaper clippings of HKIT Presidents’ articles from the “Education and Career Development Forum”. Through 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.

Around 600 items of language learning reference materials which includes Cantonese, Putonghua and English languages of reference books, dictionaries, CDs, DVDs, TV programs, Putonghua and IELTS examination papers, newspapers, journals and magazines are available in the Library. These materials are sponsored by Quality Enhancement Grant Scheme of the Education Bureau.
 

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 databases.
EBSCO databases included:

  • Business Source Elite (full text of over 1,000 titles of business publications)
  • Regional Business News (full text of more than 80 titles of regional business publications)
  • Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) (more than 1.3 million records)
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings)

Students are assigned individual passwords for access to the services and resources of the partner Australian university (Southern Cross University), which 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 and uploaded on the library website to heighten users’ awareness of the copyright laws.
 

HKIT Library is continuously striving 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 aims 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.