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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
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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 ipment and
the remainder on books for the library. The paper at Annex A 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
durma by the end of 1975 and opened any 1975. 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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The book stock as at 31 July 1973 was 24,614 volum the library is to purchase a further 60,000 titles
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