錢鍾書
There existed some memorial plaques dedicated to famous modern Chinese writers in the library, one of them was for the witty and erudite scholar-novelist Qian Zhongshu (). When the library was first opened, it was found that the second character in Qian's name, zhong (, "to favour"), was mis-represented as zhong (, "clock"). The mistake drew some criticism against the new library, which contains the greatest number of reference books among the public libraries in Hong Kong.