Library Service Update

The Library's electronic resources is further enriched with new collection. Apart from full-text articles, E-Library also provides newspapers clippings and education videos to facilitate your learning and research.　

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903-1995)
Wish to know more about the political and historical events in the early 20th century? The newly subscribed ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903-1995) provides users with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the period of 1903-1995.

Education videos from Alexander Street Press
The recently added education videos from Alexander Street Press covers various topics, such as arts, business, education, engineering, management, nursing, social science and much more. You may click here for the detail list of these videos.

To access the database or watch the videos, please visit the E-Library website (www.lib.ouhk.edu.hk) and type in the name of the database/videos under "Library Holdings", then click "Search".

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Resources Update

Platform Update of Wisenews

Wisenews, one of the familiar databases, had migrated to a whole new user interface in August 2014. Wisenews provides access to the news from about 1,600 newspapers, magazines, trade journals, web portals, and news agencies published in the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Under the new interface, users will find searching and filtering the news articles easier and simpler.

To have a look of the new interface, please go to the E-Library (http://www.lib.ouhk.edu.hk), type in "Wisenews" under “Library Holdings”, and then click “Search”.

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Feature Events

Library Workshops (October 2014)

The October 2014 Semester Library Workshops have already started. We cordially invite you to join our workshops to know more about the following topics:

Introduction to Library's collections, facilities and loan privileges;
Searching library resources via E-Library;
Hands-on practice on finding books and reserve materials, e.g. past exam papers;
Points to note when accessing E-Library from home or office.

Thanks to your enthusiastic response, only a few seats are left for the last session. Click "Register" to enrol for the workshop!

Date	Time	Venue	Language	Online Registration
20 October 2014 (Mon)	7:00pm – 8:30pm	C0413, Homantin Campus	English	Register
A Stanley Ho Library tour will be provided right after each session.

Library Seminar: AdmanGo.com

AdmanGo.com provides advertisement tracking and media spending analysis information in Hong Kong. The database contains advertisements content, ad spend data, media purchasing pattern and ad market trend. To help our users to learn more about the features and function of this database, the Library invites the speaker from AdmanGo Limited to give a seminar. Details are as follows:

Date:	17 October 2014 (Friday)
Time:	4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue:	D0820, Jubilee College, OUHK
Speaker:	Ms. Joyce Hung, Client Service Team, AdmanGo Limited
Medium of Instruction:	Cantonese

The seminar is free but registration is required. To register, please complete the Online Registration Form here.
Seminars on different topics will be coming in the near future. Please watch out for details at Electronic Library > News & Announcements.

Book Display

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the OUHK, the OUHK Library presents a book display of "The Treasure of OUHK People over the Twenty-Five Years" from September 2014 to October 2014. Readers are able to read the inspiring stories and works of OUHK people, be they OUHK Council Members, Presidents, Honorary Graduates and Fellows, Staff and Graduates, over the past 25 years.

We may never feel enough in reading good books. Following the 25th anniversary book display, a book display on Mo Yan will be presented in November 2014. Mo Yan, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, is also an Honorary Doctor of Letters of OUHK. Readers will gain more understanding of Mo Yan's work as publications written by and on Mo Yan will be included in the forthcoming book display.

Both the current and forthcoming book display will be held at the 2/F of the Stanley Ho Library.

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Service Alert

Loan Quota Increase (Pilot Run)

Starting from 1 August 2014 till 31 July 2015, all user categories will enjoy a double of the current loan quota of items from General Collection. The new loan quota under the pilot period is listed as below:

Categories	Borrowers	Books from General Collection		Loan Period
Categories	Borrowers	Loan Quota (Existing)	New Loan Quota (Pilot)	Loan Period
I	Full time academic/administrative equivalent staff	20	40	30
II	Full time staff other than Category I	5	10	14
III	Part time tutors	5	10	14
IV	Active students taking OUHK undergraduate degree/articulated and associate subdegree courses	5	10	14
V	Active students taking OUHK postgraduate courses	8	16	30
VI	Full time temporary (contract term 1 year or over) academic / administrative equivalent staff	8	16	14
VII	Full time temporary (contract term less than 1 year) academic / administrative equivalent staff; and all research assistant	5	10	14
VIII	Special categories, including OUHK graduates and OUHK retirees, visitors, outsiders; and students taking LiPACE overseas programmes (degree/professional), etc.	2	4	14

The loan periods of items from General Collection and loan quota for Reserve Materials remain unchanged.

Online Tutorials

To help users to get familiar with the library services, the Library has prepared short videos on how to find library materials in E-Library and some commonly used online services. They are:

To access the videos, go to Electronic Library > Service > Library Guides > Online Tutorials.

Responsible Use of Electronic Resources

Resources from E-Library are easy to reach and free for use. However, users are reminded to comply with license agreements and the copyright laws. You may find out our "Responsible Use of Electronic Resources" message on our E-Library website. Systematic or excessive downloading and/or copying in any form or medium is prohibited by resources providers. They might cut off access to a particular e-resources from the entire University community if they detect just one case of systematic/excessive downloading!

Be considerate, be a responsible user of electronic resources.

"Ask a Librarian" service at Ho Sik Yee Library

Have questions on opening an ebook? Cannot find journal articles in E-Library? Please try our "Ask a Librarian" service at Ho Sik Yee Library. Via the designated phone and computer, you can talk to our librarians at Stanley Ho Library or see demonstrations on screen. Service hours are as below:

Mon, Thu:	2:00pm to 9:00pm
Tue, Wed, Fri:	2:00pm to 6:00pm
Sat:	1:00pm to 10:00pm

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