The Creativity and Innovation Resource Centre is a joint project of the Hong Kong Public Libraries of Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Creative Initiatives Foundation. The Centre located at the 10/F of City Hall Public Library, has more than 20 seats, two Internet workstations and one Online Public Access Catalogue workstation for readers to make use of the collection. The Centre was opened to the general public on 27 November 2003 and it now contains more than 1,500 Chinese and English books and journals mainly covering the following four areas:

• Early childhood development, educational leadership, learning theory, multiple intelligence, motivation, cooperative learning, gifted & talented education

• Creative thinking, critical thinking, creative problem solving, divergent thinking, brainstorming, group creativity, stimulating creativity, creativity research, theories of creativity

• Organizational development, team building, management of innovation, creative leadership, product development, paradigm shifts

• Creative people and creative processes in the arts

The targeted users of the collection are people from the business community, parents, teachers, school administrators and students who are interested in learning more about creativity, enhancing his or her own creative abilities, teaching creative problem solving skills and managing change or creating the future.

Titles in the Creativity and Innovation Resource Centre Collection are searchable in the Online Public Access Catalogue.

For further information, please contact the Librarian on duty at the City Hall Reference Library or call 2921 2672.