ERIC Number: EJ1041560
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 27
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ISSN: EISSN-1545-2522
Modeling Your College Library after a Commercial Bookstore? The Hong Kong Design Institute Library Experience
Lo, Patrick; Chiu, Dickson K. W.; Chu, Wilson
Community & Junior College Libraries, v19 n3-4 p59-76 2013
The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is a leading design education institute in Hong Kong under the Vocational Training Council (VTC) group. Opened in September 2010, the HKDI Learning Resources Centre is a specialist library for the study of art and design. The mission of the HKDI Library is to support and promote the academic goals of the Institute, i.e., to prepare the students for professional careers; emphasize learning through a creative and interactive environment; meanwhile uphold a positively relaxing, and yet inviting environment that is very much similar to a commercial bookstore. In order to accomplish this, the HKDI Library aims to serve as a user-centered library for creative learning--by providing an important place for both students and faculty to actively engage in study, research, as well as socializing. Through a series of small focus group interviews with both students and faculty staff at the HKDI, the study investigates how influential the library environment could be in fostering students' learning and other social activities under a creative environment.
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Development, Design, Art Education, Library Services, Focus Groups, Interviews, Creative Activities, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews, Community Colleges, Vocational Education, User Satisfaction (Information), Cooperative Learning, Space Utilization, Socialization, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hong Kong

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