Imperial College London, founded in 1907 in London, England, is one of the world's leading public research universities specializing in science, engineering, medicine and business. The full name is Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and the Ministry of Education of China officially translates it as Imperial College, also known as Imperial College London. Imperial College Has a top reputation in the international academic community, is one of the most innovative universities in the world, and ranks in the top ten of the world in various authoritative lists.
<h3>Campus environment</h3>
Imperial College is located in South Kensington, a standard wealthy district of London, just a stone's throw from the famous Hyde Park and Kensington Palace (where Princess Diana lived). The museums here are worth visiting, and there are plenty of large supermarkets within walking distance. Imperial College's architectural style is typical of eclecticism, combining classical and modern. [1]
Imperial College is an open university consisting of a multitude of scattered campuses, but most of the faculties are still located at the South Kensington Campus, south of London's prestigious Hyde Park and next to Royal Albert Hall, in London' Westminster City and the junction of the Royal Kensington and Chelsea districts, an area with a high concentration of academic institutions. The Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Arts, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Geographical Society are all nearby. There are also two larger campuses that are not in London, the Silwood Park campus in Bakershire and the Wye Campus, 60 miles east of London. The Queen's Tower in the middle of the South Kensington campus is a landmark on campus. At 287 feet (85 m), the tower is the only building that has survived from the former Imperial Institute. It was originally part of a building with a lobby where water tanks were previously set up. In the 1960s, the Imperial Institute was dismantled and Imperial College was expanded on the site of the Institute. Between 1966 and 1968, the tower was remodeled to become a separate building. Inside the tower hangs 10 large bells, a gift from Australia in 1982, named after members of the royal family. On every important royal birthday or other royal anniversary, the bell rings in the afternoon.
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All faculties have their own libraries, and the College has a central library at south Kensington campus, which contains the library of the Science Museum, open to the registered public. The central library is open 24 hours, closed every Friday night at 23:00 for cleaning, and reopened at 11 a.m. on Saturdays.
In 2000, alumnus Gary Tanaka donated £27 million to help build a new business school building, named Tanaka Business School and later renamed Imperial College Business School. Queen Elizabeth II named the main entrance of Tanaka Business School as the "main entrance" of Imperial College in 2004.
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The Computer Service Center supports powerful PC fleets and workstations that are networked into an advanced, distributed computer environment and connected to the Internet. Computers can be used for office applications, computing complex science, mathematics, engineering and drawing, or development programming. The Central Support Group provides assistance to computers and provides free materials for improvement and provision.
The Central Library contains materials from all the disciplines taught by the Faculty, especially between university students and the various disciplines, as well as composite copies of recommended books. Also in the same building is the Science Museum Library, which has a collection of 850,000 volumes, more than 4,500 journals, and more than 900 reader seats. There is the latest electronic information request technology.
The South Kensington campus has 12 department libraries that support their respective disciplines. They provide copies of basic textbooks, course materials and collections of proprietary research materials. The School of Medicine has its own library on all campuses.
The library computer system is connected to the campus network. The computer's database can be queried online, via CD-ROM workstations or the Internet. The PCs in the central library are connected to all the library's electronic services.
In the central library, there is an extremely rich collection of science, history, art, literature, tourism and other disciplines. There is also a music collection of newspapers, magazines and tapes and CDs. Students also have free access to the facilities of other colleges at the University of London. Library Volume: The Central Library has a collection of more than 3.5 million books and 1,800 periodicals. The total collection is 725,000 volumes. The school has strong ties with the high-tech information industry, etc., and the school also encourages students to participate in the planning of large institutions, and many courses include one year of study in Europe to increase the practicality of the subject.
There are many libraries available to students at Imperial College, including the college's library, the departmental library, the digital library, the science museum's library, and so on. Located on the main campus in South Kensington, the Central Library has a total collection of 750,000 books and 850 seats for readers.
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1. Imperial College London [Cited 2014-10-10]
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