The Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau Library (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Nursing College Library’ or ‘Library’) is most likely a library that intrigues many readers – it being a small yet specialised college library mainly housing professional medical books. In this issue, Books and the City has invited two experts from the Nursing College Library, Angus Leung and Sara Wong, to unveil its secrets.
Situated inside the Mong Ha Campus of the Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, the library mainly provides services to its teaching staff, students and alumni, as well as medical professionals. The library holds a collection of over 16,000 books, most of which cover medicine, nursing and related disciplines, but there are also books covering the humanities and social sciences, such as psychology, philosophy and pedagogy. Leung said with a smile ‘it is a myth to think the Nursing College Library only provides medical books. We also have other types of books available and encourage students to read more from different disciplines. As a member of the Macau Academic Library Alliance, we welcome faculties and students from other member institutions to use the interlibrary loanservice and read in our library.’
Leung noted that the Library provides several e-book platforms and e-databases to assist readers to stay up-to-date with the latest information on medicine and nursing. Furthermore, over 40 e-databases of the Macau Academic Library Alliance are available for teaching staff and students of the Nursing College, which exemplifies the sharing of resources.
In addition to provide book lending services and access to e-resources, the Nursing College Library also hosts book exhibitions, and sharing sessions under various themes to promote reading. Librarian Sara Wong from the Library added that ‘a library is a place where knowledge is exchanged, and that is why we have been holding thematic book exhibitions, lectures and sharing sessions, hoping to introduce more variety to readers’.
The head and the librarian of the Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau Library - Angus Leung (right) and Sara Wong (left)
The Library mainly offers books on medicine, nursing and relevant disciplines
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tudents having group discussions in the Library’s discussion room
