{"id":3454,"date":"2014-08-26T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hksyu.edu.hk\/lib\/blog\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T08:55:21","slug":"new-services-2014-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/new-services-2014-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Services 2014 &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/new-services-2014-2015-poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"new services 2014-2015 poster\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3453\" src=\"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/new-services-2014-2015-poster-212x300.png\" alt=\"new services 2014-2015 poster\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">1.\u00a0 <strong>New E-books Resources for Five Academic Libraries<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">A fund of over $50 million, under the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS) in developing an online <strong>C<\/strong>ollection <strong>S<\/strong>haring and <strong>I<\/strong>nformation <strong>D<\/strong>iscovery <strong>S<\/strong>ystem (CSIDS) and a new e-book collection, has been granted to the five self-financing institutes.\u00a0 The project will be implemented from January 2014 to December 2016.\u00a0 The five cooperating institutions are as below:<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Open University of Hong Kong<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Caritas Institute of Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chu Hai College of Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hong Kong Shue Yan University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tung Wah College<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">The CSIDS titles can be found at the Library website.\u00a0 The acquired e-book titles are listed out under \u201cCollections\u201d then into the option \u201cCSIDS Titles\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">2. \u00a0 <strong>The 2014-15 new databases:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Britannica Image Quest<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, 1958-1962 (\u4e2d\u570b\u5927\u8e8d\u9032\u2500\u5927\u9951\u8352\u6578\u64da\u5eab, 1958\u20131962)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">EBSCO: European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">ICLR Online<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Journal Citation Reports: Social Sciences Edition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Learning Portal (Asian)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Abstract &amp; Index): Subset A (Humanities &amp; Social Sciences Collection)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">PsycCRITIQUES<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Social Science Research Network (SSRN)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">South China Morning Post Digital IP Access Program<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Economist Historical Archive 1843-<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">3. \u00a0 <strong>HKSYUtube<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">User can login to access restricted local TV programs in Campus through Library website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Since\u00a02006, the Library\u00a0provides recorded local TV programs from three free TV broadcast companies (ATV, RTHK and TVB). Programs are mainly\u00a0subjected to news and public affairs.\u00a0For effective\u00a0preservation and easier\u00a0access for\u00a0Library users, some licensed episodes produced are converted into online streaming videos.\u00a0DVD copies\u00a0can be found on the\u00a06\/F\u00a0of the Library, or users may login to access restricted resources\u00a0through HKSYUtube for online viewings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">4. \u00a0 <strong>5\/F: an extension of Learning Commons<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">5. \u00a0 <strong>Charges for photocopying and printing paid by Octopus will be adjusted as below. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 53px\" width=\"409\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"168\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Octopus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" width=\"130\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>A4   @2\/F-6\/F<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" width=\"150\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>A3   @2\/F-6\/F<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"168\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Black &amp; White<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">$0.4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">$0.8<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"168\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Colour<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"130\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">$2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"150\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">$4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"168\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Scanning<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"280\" valign=\"top\" colspan=\"2\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Free of charge<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">*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.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">6. \u00a0 <strong>New printers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">New multifunction printers are equipped on 2\/F and 5\/F with photocopying and scanning functions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">7. \u00a0 <strong>More new external reader cards<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">4 more Libraries are offering external reader cards for our students and staff:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chu Hai College of Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hang Seng Management College<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Institute for Tourism Studies (Macau) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">8. \u00a0 <strong>Result of LibQUAL+ Survey 2013<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">In November 2013, the Library conducted an online survey via LibQUAL+ in which 97% of 606 completed responses were undergraduates.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">The overall score in quality of service is 6.53. Our result is similar to that of JULAC* Libraries\u2019 LibQUAL+ survey in 2011.\u00a0 <strong>Hence, <\/strong><strong>HKSYU<\/strong><strong> Library <\/strong><strong>successfully <\/strong><strong>reaches a certain level of service as an academic library in Hong Kong.<\/strong><br \/>\n*JULAC includes all 8 public university libraries, i.e. HKU, CUHK, HKUST, CityU, PolyU, HKBU, LU &amp; HKIEd <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> Detail of the survey: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">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\u2013M )while LP scored the lowest superiority at \u20131.13 (i.e. P\u2013D). 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. &amp; Facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The project will be implemented from January 2014 to December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/new-services-2014-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Services 2014 &#8211; 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.hksyu.edu\/lib\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}