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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

Monday, November 27, 1972

PING SHEK ESTATE PUBLIC LIBRARY "VERY POPULAR"

The Urban Council Public Library set up recently in the Ping

Shek Estate has proved very popular with ita facilities heavily used by

residents in the area.

Set up only four months ago, this library already has more than

5,000 members, which shows it is meeting a growing public need for such

services.

With a basic bookstock of some 26,000 volumes, the library

recorded about 27,000 book issues for home reading in October alone

and another 28,000 book issues for books read or consulted within

the library's premises.

Judging from these figures, the library can be considered the

third most heavily used library in Hong Kong, the other two being the City

Hall Public Library and the Waterloo Road Public Library.

Mr. Oblitas, Assistant Director (Cultural Services) of the Urban

Services Department said: "The density of population, the transport

convenience as well as the large number of schools in the nearby areas

account for the rapid development of the Ping Shek Public Library."

He said that since its opening, residents in the north-east part

of the Kowloon peninsula no longer had to travel to the Waterloo Road or

Yau Ma Tei Public Libraries.

/Mr. Oblitas

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