Library Service Updates (Jan 2020)

Issue No. 58 (Jan 2020)

Loan Quota, Loan Period, Renewal Limits……More, More, More!

To provide better support for your study and research, the Library has enhanced the borrowing service by increasing the loan quota and extending the loan period for all materials in the General Collection. Now you can also enjoy more flexible renewals! Find out more below:

1. New loan quota and loan period

Borrower Category	General Collection
	Loan quota	Initial loan period	Maximum loan period
	Book	Day	Day
Academic/Administrative staff	60	90	360
General grade staff	30	30	120
Postgraduate students	60	90	360
Undergraduate students	30	30	120
Others (including OUHK graduates and OUHK retirees, visitors, outsiders)	10	30	120

For more details, please click here.

2. Flexible renewals

Renewals can be made at any time, unless the borrowed items have reached maximum loan periods or are reserved by other users.

3. Holds and recalls

While users can enjoy longer borrowing period, the borrowed items are subject to recall if they are reserved by other users. Recalled items are to be returned in 14 days or by the due date, whichever comes earlier. We will inform you the revised due date via email. Please watch out your email box for the Library notices.

If you have any questions on the enhanced borrowing policies, please contact us at 2768 6777 or visit the Library Circulation Counter.

New Databases Supporting Your Study

We work closely with Schools to source suitable resources for our users. Recently, we have added the following useful study tools and resources to our e-resources collection:

Resources on learning English:

Clarity English – Clear Pronunciation 2

This online course guides users to speak English clearly and naturally. It consists of five learning sections: word stress, sentence stress, consonant clusters, connected speech and intonation.

Clarity English – Practical Writing

This online course consists of teacher videos, interactive activities and study sheets to help users to structure their message, find the right vocabulary and adopt an appropriate style in different types of writing.

Clarity English – Road to IELTS (Full version academic)

This is an online preparation and practice tool for IELTS candidates. It provides interactive activities, advice videos from experts and practical tests to help users to improve their skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing.

English-Corpora.org

On English-Corpora.org, you can learn how native speakers actually speak and write, get tips on the frequent use of words, phrases, and how to collocate through the corpora. Besides, you can also know more about language variation and get insight from cultural perspectives.

Net Languages – Grammar Practice

This online course consists of 3 levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. Each level provides more than 150 grammar activities, interactive exercises and grammar references.

Net Languages – Medical English for Health Professional Course

This is an online course to help users to learn English medical vocabularies and practise communication in English for medical purposes.

Net Languages – Vocabulary Practice

This online course consists of 3 levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. Each level provides more than 200 vocabulary activities, interactive discoveries and practice exercises.

Net Languages – Writing Practice

This online course consists of 3 levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. Both basic and intermediate levels provide writing activities. Different types of texts are included with focus on text features, writing strategies and useful languages.

Resources on Nursing:

CINAHL Complete

CINAHL Complete covers an extensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, and provides full text access to more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. It also provides indexing for more than 5,400 journals and additional nursing and allied health research materials.

On our A-Z database list, you will find description of each database.

Tips on use: filter the list by “Subjects” or “Types” to search for the databases most relevant for your work or study!

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