Map Library, as part of Geography Department setups, contain a variety range
of collections on large map sheets (world cities, China and Hong Kong), wall 
maps (World Regionals in variety themes), LandSat images and posters (Hong 
Kong and Pearl Delta Region), Aerial Photos (Hong Kong), large Atlases, 
Population Census Statistic (Hong Kong), Weather Summaries (Hong Kong), 
Newspaper cuttings, Geography software (on disk and CD-Rom), Geo-related 
slides and video, past student works and honour projects, and other related 
reference materials. 

The latest collection index is available in the computer terminal set asided
in our Map Library. You are most welcome to use, and to preform any complex 
search using this system. The printout index has been replaced by this
system. If you want to obtain printout, you should use the copy of index
stored in this gopher stated in the next paragraph.

An updated collection index is also available in this gopher, under the
Departmental sub-menu. For more information about Map Library Index, please
refer to the "About" text under Map Library Index submenu. Sorry, but at the
present time, our on-gopher Map Library Index is restricted to on-campus
access only.

The Map Library also manage two notice boards outside our office, named 
"Current News Interested to Geographer" and "Geographic Theme board". The
Current News Interested to Geographer board posts newspaper cuttings which
may be of interested to geography students, while the Geographic Theme board
used to post articles on special geography issues.   

Our Map Library also maintain a World Wide Web Server for the Geographic
Resources Center at http://geog.hkbu.edu.hk. This site contain on-line
information and data on spatial related topics.

Students and staff of our department, as well as from other department, are
most welcome to use our facilities. For any questions related to Map Library,
please email to btsang@hkbu.edu.hk or fax to (852)2339-5991.



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