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Creativity Centres
Creativity and Innovation Resource Centre
The Creativity and Innovation Resource Centre is
a reference collection housed in the City Hall Public Library.
Containing more than 1,500 books and journals, the CIRC is Asia’s
largest publicly accessible collection of resources on the subjects
of creativity and innovation. The core collection is comprised of
1,000 titles selected by the world famous International Center for
Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College, New York.
Made up of both academic and non-academic texts, the collection
comprises a vast knowledge base of materials of interest to anyone
searching to learn more about creativity, enhancing his or her own
creative abilities, teaching creative problem solving skills to
others, managing change, or creating the future.
Topics include:
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Early Childhood Development, Educational
Leadership, Learning Theory, Multiple Intelligences, Motivation,
Cooperative Learning, Gifted & Talented Education
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Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Creative
Problem Solving, Divergent Thinking, Brainstorming, Group
Creativity, Stimulating Creativity, Creativity Research, Theories
of Creativity
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Organizational Development, Team Building,
Management of Innovation, Creative Leadership, Product
Development, Paradigm Shifts, Geography of Innovation
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Creative processes in the Arts, Creative
People
Established in 2003 by the Leisure and Cultural
Services Department, the CIRC includes seating for 20 researchers
and an Online Library Catalogue. Two computers with broadband access
to the Internet were donated by the Creative Initiatives Foundation.
The books and journals, on loan from Creative Initiatives
Foundation, were purchased with a grant provided by Po Chung, SBS,
OBE, JP and his wife Helen.
Visit the Centre
Address:
City Hall Public Library
10th Floor, City Hall High Block
Edinburgh Place,
Central, Hong Kong
Tel: 2921 2672
Fax: 2524 2089
Hours of operation:
Please Click here
CIRC Catalogue
There are three ways to search the contents of the CIRC:
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The entire contents of the CIRC
collection is included in the Hong Kong Public Library Online
Catalogue. Use the
Hong Kong Public
Library online catalogue to
search for titles or subjects that interest you. The catalogue will
identify whether the book is in the CIRC collection.
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Go to
International Center
for Studies in Creativity (ICSC) of Buffalo State College. The core collection, comprised of the 1,000 titles that were
selected by the ICSC. Their Creativity Based Information Resources (CBIR) database
contains 12,180 annotated references of works focusing on creativity
literature. To search the database, enter the author’s name, title,
key words, or descriptors and click the "Search" button.
You can search titles included in our centre by choosing "Hong Kong
City Hall Public Library" under the "collection" search criteria.
Searched items will also be indicated of their specific libraries
with annotation.
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Download a MS Word or MS Excel file containing
the author’s names and titles for all books in the collection:
Download MS Word file
Download MS Excel file
Visit the CIRC homepage
Click here to go to the CIRC homepage powered by the Hong Kong
Public Libraries of Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
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