Space & Facilities

Ingenium

The Ingenium derives its name from the adjective, ‘ingenious’, which evokes invention, imagination, and innovation. Located on the 2/F of the Main Library, the Ingenium is an interdisciplinary space for the HKU community to be inspired by and to interact with technology. As an interdisciplinary space for exploration and creation, Ingenium is intended to cover notions of inspiration, conceptualization, visualization, production and exposition. These concepts are to be articulated through some of the services and spaces provided as follows.

Exhibition and Event Spaces

The revamped atrium exhibition space now has a hanging system to enable displays of a variety of objects along with a large screen so that complementary/supplementary images related to the current exhibition can be displayed. A Multipurpose Area complements the exhibition space and has been used for book talks and other events. This space is used primarily as students study space but easily converts to cater to events.

Library Innovation Centre

The Library Innovation Centre or LIC provides a combination of facilities that serve the concepts of visualization, production and exposition.

Tech@Ingenium

This area focuses on higher and newer technologies with the provision of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality spaces and facilities. These facilities are supported through the 5 Concept and Creation Rooms which provide opportunities for users to learn collaboratively, to brainstorm new concepts, share ideas, work in groups and then to bring these ideas to reality through the other facilities and services.

Special Study Rooms

Two Special Education Needs (SEN) rooms have been provided as upgrades to the Library’s previous service on the 4th Floor. Special Study Rooms provides facilities and equipment for students with visual impairment, including a braille embosser, an electronic magnifier and 3 study carrels (each equipped with twin power sockets) for special education needs users for quiet, individual studying and research.

Digital Interactive Lab

Digital Scholarship is the use of digital methods of inquiry and publication venues to achieve scholarly outcomes. The Libraries provide a space - Digital Interactive Lab with a lot of facilities and services, which support your project, research, and learning.

This Lab is equipped with a high performance computer and a high resolution Video Wall to facilitate visualization of data with images and videos for research seminar and academic discussion, and to support collaborative learning activities through connecting your portable devices to project images, videos, and research data on multiple screens simultaneously. Reserve your place and booking to explore more!