FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1983
13
LIBRARIES PLAY A MORE ACTIVE ROLE
****
PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOW ACTIVELY ATTRACTING READERS TO GO TO THEM THROUGH A HOST OF EXTENSION ACTIVITIES, INSTEAD OF WAITING PASSIVELY FOR THE READERS TO DROP BY.
THIS WAS SAID TODAY BY MR ALEX NG, CHIEF LIBRARIAN OF THE CULTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S NEW TERRITORIES PUBLIC LIBRARIES, AT THE PRIZE-PRESENTATION OF THE BOOKMARK DESIGN COMPETITION HELD AT KWAI CHUNG PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THESE EXTENSION ACTIVITIES INCLUDE VIDEO CASSETTE VIEWING, HI-FI CONCERTS, SUBJECT TALKS, INTEREST CLUBS AND FILM SHOWS.
MR NG SAID THAT A GREAT EXPANSION PROGRAMME IS UNDERWAY TO SATISFY THE NEED OF READERS AND THAT SEVEN TO EIGHT LIBRARIES WOULD BE OPENED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
AT PRESENT, THERE ARE ONE MOBILE AND 11 STATIC PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. THE LATTER ARE LOCATED IN ALL DISTRICTS AS FAR AS TAI 0, CHEUNG CHAU AND LAMMA ISLAND.
MR NG EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT STUDENTS WOULD VISIT THESE LIBRARIES MORE OFTEN DURING THE SUMMER VACATION TO JOIN THE EXTENSION ACTIVITIES SUCH AS THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY WEEK WHICH WILL BE HELD IN ALL THE NEW TERRITORIES PUBLIC LIBRARIES FROM AUGUST 7 TO 13.
THE PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK WILL INCLUDE SUBJECT TALKS, COLOURING COMPETITION, STORY TELLING, QUIZ AND FILM SHOWS.
AT THE PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONY TODAY, MR NG PRESENTED PRIZES TO THE 12 WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION.
CHAN IN GROUP A (13 YEARS OF AGE OR ABOVE), TANG KWOK-YIN KIN-HING AND CHAN WAI-MING RECEIVED THE FIRST THREE PRIZES, THE MERIT PRIZE WINNERS WERE TAM OI-LIN, CHEA PING-HUNG AND LEUNG PO-HON.
J
THE THREE TOP PRIZES OF GROUP B (12 YEARS OF AGE OR BELOW) WERE AWARDED TO LEUNG LIN-SEE, TANG 01-YAN AND CHAN FUNG-LIN, WHILE THE MERIT PRIZES WENT TO LAW MING-WAI, LEE YU-FAN AND MAK SAU-LING.
THE BOOKMARK DESIGN COMPETITION, ORGANISED BY THE NEW TERRITORIES PUBLIC LIBRARIES EARLIER IN THE YEAR, RECEIVED MORE THAN 2 000 ENTRIES.
MOST OF THE ENTRIES ARE ON DISPLAY AT KWAI CHUNG PUBLIC LIBRARY UNTIL JULY 15.
0
/14