Children's Library

The Children's Library, located on the 2/F of the Hong Kong Central Library, allows young readers up to the age of 12 to explore for new worlds of knowledge through its diversified collection, thus helping them in their growth and development.

Objective - Nurturing a love and a habit of reading To provide a well-balanced collection for children, including print and non-print materials, so as to serve their informational needs and foster a love of reading among children, develop their creativity and imagination, enhance their life experience and to meet at different stages of development; To provide readers' advisory services so as to help children in fuller use of library resources and to enhance their learning ability; To assist parents and child workers in nurturing a love and a habit of reading among children.

Scope of Services Lending and reference services Readers' advisory services Reading guidance Extension activities - Storytelling for Children, Reading Programme for Children & Family, Parents' Talk and Workshop Subject bibliographies Storytelling for Children: Story-telling is a way to stimulate imagination and curiosity of young children, and as a mean to early literacy. Story hours are organized with reading activities, games and music aiming to introduce different themes in reading. Reading Programme for Children & Family: Children are encouraged to join the scheme to share the fun of reading. Activities like guides to reading-aloud, appreciation of picture books, oral book reports and use of children periodicals will be held to stimulate children's reading interest.

Collection Lending and Reference Collection A total of over 260,000 lending and reference items including books and audio materials like stories and songs, in addition to a collection of children periodicals. Picture Books A comprehensive picture book collection is available in the Picture Book Corner. Parents are encouraged to read with their children to promote early literacy. Children's Award-winning Collection The Children's Award-winning Collection covers 22 children's literacy awards, including 13 Awards in English literacy and 9 Awards in Chinese literacy. Children are encouraged to read the award-winning titles with their parents. Recommended Reading for Children The Children's Library will regularly produce subject bibliographies such as "Parent-Child Reading Booklist" and "Resource List for Children" to introduce its diversified collection so as to meet the informational needs and foster their love of reading among children.

Facilities Various facilities include: Lending Section Reference Section Picture Book Corner Children's Activity Room Exhibition Area Workstations Reading Area Children's Multimedia Room Toy Library Babycare Room

FAQs Reservation of Toy Library Block Loan Service

Subject Bibliographies The Children's Library will regularly produce subject bibliographies such as "Parent-Child Reading Booklist" and "Resource List for Children" to introduce its diversified collection so as to meet the informational needs and foster the love of reading among children.

Recommended Lists for Children Kids' Project Guide Electronic Resources for Kids

For enquiry, please call 2921 0385.

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Children's Activity Room

The Children's Activity Room is located on the 2/F of the Hong Kong Central Library. Built with tiered seating that accommodate 60 people and equipped with colorful performance stage, audio and video projection system, the Children's Activity Room caters to families who enjoy hearing stories from best loved children's classics or to experience the fun of reading activities brought onto the stage.

Children's Multimedia Room

The Children's Multimedia Room located on 2/F of the Hong Kong Central Library provides 24 workstations for 3 to 12 years old children to enjoy. There stocks interactive and educational CD-ROMs covering a wide variety of topics such as Chinese Language, English Learning, General Studies, Mathematics and Arts. Parents are welcome to accompany their children and parent-child relationship can be enhanced through playing CD-ROMs together.

Audio-visual Library

The Audio-visual Library which is located on the 6/F provides 68 IDS workstations as well as a diversified audio-visual collection of over 170,000 items, including children’s beloved fairy tale animations and items that are specially catered for junior readers, such as educational animations and video programs of the Education Bureau (EDB). Besides, for those who prefer audio items, there are also various children songs, folk songs, cartoon songs, audio stories and many others at their choice. Junior readers may access the items via the Audio-on-demand and the Video-on-demand of the Multimedia Information System (MMIS) at the IDS workstations there.

Language Learning Centre

The Language Learning Centre is located on the sixth floor of the Hong Kong Central Library and houses different international languages and dialects learning materials. Each of the 34 language booths in the Centre is equipped with a computer terminal and audio-visual facilities for users to learn languages at their own pace.

Learning a foreign language at an early age provides benefits for a lifetime. Advantages are academic, cultural and personal. Get started now and open up a new dimension for your children here at the Language Learning Centre of the Hong Kong Central Library!

User Education Hall

The User Education Hall on the G/F of HKCL frequently organises user education sessions for you and your kids. The activities aim to provide training on efficient application of library resources, to stimulate your kids' curiosity and to facilitate their study and cognitive development.

Apart from our Public Guided Tour, you and your kids are welcome to join various User Education Sessions that introduce you to our Multimedia Information System, Electronic Databases and Library Catalogue. During these sessions, you and your kids can learn searching skills and how to make the best use of library resources.

User Education Hall: 2921 0563