WHEN the Governor, Chris Patten, dots the ceremonial lion's eyes and unveils a plaque to open the Tsuen Wan Central Library at 3 pm today, it will mark a major stage in the Regional Council's expansion plans for its library services.
The Tsuen Wan library is using the world's first major multi-lingual automated public library system.
It is the third central library in the Regional Council's area, and the first new library to provide fully computerised services from day one.
Its floor area of 3,800 square metres allows the library to provide the full range of facilities expected of a modern library.
They include books, newspapers, periodicals and audio-visual materials in Chinese and English.
The brightly coloured junior library has 52,000 books in both languages for children under 12 years old.