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Monday, July 23, 1973
G.I.S. LIBRARIES MORE POPULAR
The library facilities of Government Information Services are
being used by an increasing number of people, particularly school students.
The reference library contains more than 3,500 books dealing
with a variety of subjects, including the laws of Hong Kong, departmental
reports and official documents. It also keeps an up-to-date file of some
35 different periodicals.
In the past six months an average of 200 people
journalists and members of the public
--
students,
have used the reference library
each month. This represents an increase of some 30 per cent over the
average monthly figures for last year.
The press library meets a constant demand for quick reference
to newspaper reports and government policies and plans on virtually
every subject of local interest.
Five-thousand press files are kept in this library and micro-film
facilities are also available.
The photographic library at present contains about 460,000 black
and white negatives and more than 23,000 colour transparencies.
These cover a wide variety of subjects and are distributed free
of charge for publicity and press release purposes, but a standard fee
is charged for reproduction of pictures for commercial use.
During the first six months of this year the library handled
a total of 3,662 requests.
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