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at present, and will be carefully monitored in the futur This provides reasonable assurance that the Folytechnic will be sensitive to the needs of the economy which it serves, and that aid funds devoted to it will be usefully employed.
IV. TECHNICAL ASPECT
20. The equipment and books will be purchased over a period of three years or so corresponding with the phased development of the Polytechnic. Taking this into account and the rapid progress in technological methods, we do not consider it practicable, at this stage, to expect the Hong Kong Government to provide precise lists of equipment and books. The proposal is, however, to utilise approximately $380,000 of the grant on audio-visual and metrology equipment equipment and the remainder on books for the library. The paper at Annex gives some indication of initial thinking as regards audio-visual equipment and library material.
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It is planned that the new library will be complete by the end of 1975 and opened by 1976. The confirmed Polytechnic library policy is to have on the shelves by December 1976, a book stock in the region of 100,000 volumes. However, it is planned that the library will ultimately contain shelving to accommodate 400,000 volumes and seating for 3,000 students.
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by 1976 am 400,000 roumes & ventually, n by no mean book stock of 100,000 volumes might be considered large for a Polytechnic by British standards, and British
of 5,000 fulltime sticonto Polytechnies formally offer a wide range of degree studies, but unlike Britain there is a lack of other
sourees-of-reading material of his nature.
There is a
great social need for a library of this magnitude and which can offer such a large number of seats for study purposes, since the great majority of the students come from home environments totally unsuitable for study.
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The book stock as at 31 July 1973 was 24,614 Volume;
the library is to purchase a further 60,000 titles
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