The 22nd member of the Thailand Knowledge Park’s network is operated as a “living library” housed at the three-storey Mork Mai Building on Khun Lum Prapas Road in Mae Hong Son’s Muang district.

The 2,473-square-metre Mae Hong Son TK Park – a collaboration between the Office of Knowledge Management and Development (OKMD) TK Park, the Muang Mae Hong Son Municipality and the Mae Hong Son Community College – was officially opened by Deputy Prime Minister Air Chief Marshal Prajin Juntong last Friday.

Acting OKMD deputy director and TK Park director Rames Phromyen said this compact learning park was developed from the 2012-established ICT skill and learning centre, as per the concept of a living library, to promote creativity, imagination, music, constructive activities as well as promoting IT skill and e-learning.

The facility will come in handy for this northern province’s rural and mountainous geographical context to help the locals in learning and catching up with peers from other regions, he added.

It is open daily from 8.30am to 9pm.

The facility’s first floor includes the Reading Room, which offers more than 3,000 book titles and multimedia learning materials, and the Kids’ Room, which lets children learn in an atmosphere suitable to their age groups.

There is also the Dance Studio, the Study Room, a small conference room for up to 12 persons and the Mork Mai Space for people to organise activities and rotating exhibitions.

The second floor houses an IT centre and it holds computer courses for higher education students as well as a program designed to help students find part-time jobs.

The third floor comprises of the Good Net Room, which offers access to computers, tablets and the Internet via free Wi-Fi, the E-tech and Library section, a 40-seat computer room for monthly computer courses, a compact conference hall and a cafe.