Category: Notice

Official Launch of Primo Discovery Service __________ Primo資源探索服務啟動了

Official Launch of Primo Discovery Service
We are pleased to announce that the Library’s Primo Discovery Service (Primo) is now available here.   Primo is a new discovery system that offers a new way to search and access of information for study and research needs.
With Primo, Library users can search all collection items including books, journals, e-books, journal articles and electronic resources (e.g. subscribed electronic database and electronic HKSYU theses).    Primo provides personal setting options in which user can log on to add items you found (e-Shelf), set alerts, etc.  For details, please read Primo online help here.
Please contact our library staff at information counter if you require assistance.   You may also write to libinfo@hksyu.edu for reporting comments.
HKSYU Library
24 November 2014
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CSIDS News – Over 4,000 e-books are available ______ CSIDS消息: 超過4,000本電子圖書可供線上閱讀

CSIDS News

University Library and  four libraries of  institutions of higher education* purchased more than 4,000 e-books through the QESS project (For details, please read item J here or Library Handbook 2014-15 page 18) during the past 9 months.  It helps in enriching content of the Collection Sharing and Information Discovery System (CSIDS). Subjects of e-books comprise Chinese language & literature, Chinese history, English language & literature, business administration, accounting, economics, finance, history, social science, nursing, architecture, law, psychology, journalism and general studies, etc. Members of Shue Yan community can make use a PC workstation or a mobile device (i.e. smartphone or tablet) to search and access a title through the Library’s catalogue or browse the list of titles here. For enquiry or reporting problem, please send an email to libinfo@hksyu.edu.
* Includes The Open University of Hong Kong, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Chu Hai College of Higher Education and Tung Wah College

CSIDS News (Chinese)

本館與四間專上院校*圖書館在過去9個月間透過QESS項目(詳情可瀏覽這裡 的選項J或圖書館手冊2014-15第18頁)，購買了超過4,000本電子圖書以豐富「館藏共享及資源發現系統」(Collection Sharing and Information Discovery System)的館藏，其主題包中國語言文學、中國歷史、英國語言文學、工商管理、會計、經濟、金融、歷史、社會科學、護理學、建築、法律、心理學、傳理學、及一般學科。樹仁大學教學人員、職員及學生均可利用電腦或流動設備(即智能電話或平板電腦)透過大學圖書館的線上目錄或在這列表連結尋找及在線閱讀相關書目。如有查詢或問題報告，歡迎發電郵至libinfo@hksyu.edu。
*包括香港公開大學、明愛專上學院、珠海學院及東華學院

New Services 2014 – 2015

new services 2014-2015 poster

1.  New E-books Resources for Five Academic Libraries
A fund of over $50 million, under the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS) in developing an online Collection Sharing and Information Discovery System (CSIDS) and a new e-book collection, has been granted to the five self-financing institutes.  The project will be implemented from January 2014 to December 2016.  The five cooperating institutions are as below:



  • The Open University of Hong Kong
  • Caritas Institute of Higher Education
  • Chu Hai College of Higher Education
  • Hong Kong Shue Yan University
  • Tung Wah College




CSIDS provides a next generation search and discovery tool to facilitate faculty members and students among the five libraries to find and access the library.



The CSIDS titles can be found at the Library website.  The acquired e-book titles are listed out under “Collections” then into the option “CSIDS Titles”.




2.   The 2014-15 new databases:



  1. Britannica Image Quest
  2. Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, 1958-1962 (中國大躍進─大饑荒數據庫, 1958–1962)
  3. EBSCO: European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
  4. ICLR Online
  5. Journal Citation Reports: Social Sciences Edition
  6. Learning Portal (Asian)
  7. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Abstract & Index): Subset A (Humanities & Social Sciences Collection)
  8. PsycCRITIQUES
  9. Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
  10. South China Morning Post Digital IP Access Program
  11. The Economist Historical Archive 1843-



3.   HKSYUtube



User can login to access restricted local TV programs in Campus through Library website.



Since 2006, the Library provides recorded local TV programs from three free TV broadcast companies (ATV, RTHK and TVB). Programs are mainly subjected to news and public affairs. For effective preservation and easier access for Library users, some licensed episodes produced are converted into online streaming videos. DVD copies can be found on the 6/F of the Library, or users may login to access restricted resources through HKSYUtube for online viewings.






4.   5/F: an extension of Learning Commons



During this Summer, the 5/F of the Library was renovated by replacing old bookshelves with additional new furniture. The floor is now split into General Collection and an extension of Learning Commons. General Collection houses both English and Chinese books and the latter provides 24 PC workstation cubicles, a magazine corner and a presentation room in which users may learn and study collaboratively.





5.   Charges for photocopying and printing paid by Octopus will be adjusted as below.


Octopus

 A4 @2/F-6/F A3 @2/F-6/F

Black & White

$0.4

$0.8

Colour

$2

$4

Scanning

Free of charge




*Starting from September 2014, the Library will no longer provide purchasing or recharging services of the Smartcard (Photocopying cards). For those who are currently holding our photocopying cards, the remaining balance of the photocopying cards may still be used for payment.



6.   New printers



New multifunction printers are equipped on 2/F and 5/F with photocopying and scanning functions.



7.   More new external reader cards



4 more Libraries are offering external reader cards for our students and staff:


  • Chu Hai College of Higher Education
  • Hang Seng Management College
  • Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education
  • Institute for Tourism Studies (Macau)


8.   Result of LibQUAL+ Survey 2013



In November 2013, the Library conducted an online survey via LibQUAL+ in which 97% of 606 completed responses were undergraduates.



The overall score in quality of service is 6.53. Our result is similar to that of JULAC* Libraries’ LibQUAL+ survey in 2011.  Hence, HKSYU Library successfully reaches a certain level of service as an academic library in Hong Kong.
*JULAC includes all 8 public university libraries, i.e. HKU, CUHK, HKUST, CityU, PolyU, HKBU, LU & HKIEd

Detail of the survey:

22 questions of the three main dimensions (i.e. Affect of Service (AS), Information Control (IC) and Library as Place (LP) scoring on a scale of 1 to 9 at three levels: Minimum (M), Perceived (P) and Desired(D)), it showed that AS received the highest adequacy score at 1.14 (i.e. P–M )while LP scored the lowest superiority at –1.13 (i.e. P–D). On usage pattern questions, the results showed that over 50% of respondents use the Library at least weekly and over 90% of them use commercial search engines. There are 362 written comments in which 25% of them related to I.T. & Facilities.

New External Reader Cards 新增的圖書館讀者證

Library Notice

Two more academic libraries provide external reader cards for HKSYU staff and students:

  • Institute for Tourism Studies
  • Hang Seng Management College

External reader cards can be borrowed at the Library G/F circulation counter. You can find out more information from our Library website.
圖 書 館 通 告
圖書館現新增了以下兩間學府的「圖書館讀者證」服務，本校教職員及學生均可借用：

  • 旅遊學院
  • 恆生管理學院

歡迎到圖書館大堂的流通服務櫃檯借用讀者證。其詳情請參閱圖書館網頁。
HKSYU Library
香港樹仁大學圖書館示
11-07-2014