Services include reference consultation, tours, presentations, exhibitions, and a Hong Kong seminar series.
In close collaboration with the Asian Institute, Chinese Canadian Studies Program and the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto, the Library serves as an important link between the University and the external community, through cultural and educational events involving Hong Kong immigrants and Chinese community organizations.
In 1999, the Resource Centre received a major gift of $500,000 from Senator Vivienne Poy,[5] and a reading room named Ming Chak Hin 銘澤軒 (Richard Charles Lee Studio) was created at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
Totalling more than half a million frames, the microfilm collection of Hong Kong Newspaper Clippings is dated from the 1850s to 1999.
Since the 1980s, the collection covers 15 Hong Kong Chinese and English newspapers daily, which are fully indexed.