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Booking Service for Multimedia Content
Users with valid library card are welcome to use the content booking
service of the Multimedia Information System (MMIS). They can place bookings
on the following collections: Audio, Video, CD-ROM Database and
CD-ROM for Children. Please complete the content booking process
by the following steps:-
- Use Basic Search or Advanced Search to locate the title for booking.
- Click the selected title to enter its content page.
- Click the 'Book' button to enter the content booking page.
- Select the 'Date' of your booking from the pull down menu (System
displays a default value of 7 days in advance).
- Select the Workstation Group for the booking from the pull
down menu.
- Enter your fourteen digits Library Card Number or your HKID
Card Number (Hong Kong Identity Card, e.g."A1234567")
as the User ID.
- Enter your PIN Number (Personal Identity Number) or your registered
Home Phone Number as the Password.
- Click the 'Reset Form' button if you need to correct the above
information.
- Click the 'Select Time Slot' button to enter the page with
the available time slots.
- After verifying your User ID and Password, the system
will display a page with the available time slots for that particular
day. Users need to check the radio button in front of the chosen time
slot and click the 'Confirm' button. System will verify the availability
of the selected time slot and your booking status, and then confirm
every successful booking with a message.
Conditions of booking services:
- Users have a daily limit of 2 sessions for workstation or content
bookings for a maximum of 4 hours. The length of the workstation booking
cannot be longer than two hours for each session and the length of the
content booking cannot be longer than three hours for each session.
- Library card holders aged below 12 are only eligible to book the ATM
and LAN workstations located at the Children's Library on 2/F.
Claim Booking for Multimedia Content
Users need to claim their booking within 15 minutes before it starts
or within 10 minutes after it begins (For example: A booking session begins
at 12:00 up to 13:00, the effective time for users to claim booking is
11:45 to 12:10, a total of 25 minutes). Users can take either one of the
following options to claim booking for multimedia content:
1. Claim Booking through Workstations within Your Chosen Workstation
Group
Users can pick any workstation within their chosen Workstation Group
and login the workstation under the status of Library Card Holders.
Users need to input the same User ID and Password as those submitted in
the booking process for authentication. Users need to click the 'Play
List' button at the menu bar of the browser to get the Play List displayed
at the left of the screen. The booked title will be shown automatically
in the Play List when the booking session begins. To play the booked item,
users just simply click the title to begin playing. In case users opt
to play other items within the session, they have to give up the booked
session, logout the workstation, then login again as either the Guest
or the Library Card Holder.
2. Check the Location of the Assigned Workstation through the Self-Serve
Workstations (applicable to the Hong Kong Central Library only)
If all workstations of the chosen Workstation Group are engaged,
users can still be acknowledged the location of assigned workstation through
the Self-Serve Workstations located at the Information Service
Counter on each floor (except 7/F.) by the following steps:-
- Click the 'Claim Booking' button on the main screen.
- Enter your Library Card Number as the User ID.
- Enter your PIN Number or your registered Home Phone Number
as the Password.
- Click 'OK' button to enter the profile of your booking records.
- Choose the booking record that you are going to claim.
- Click the 'Claim Booking' button and note down the assigned
workstation number.
- Remember to take the Acknowledgement Ticket issued by the ticket printer
and go to login the assigned workstation with your User ID and Passwords
and start using the booking session.
Hints for users to claim booking:
- User should successfully login the assigned workstation within 10
minutes after the booking time begins. Otherwise, the system will classify
that the booking is failed to be claimed and will release and reallocate
all the unclaimed workstations and contents to other library users for
ad hoc use.
- To have a better allocation of the library's resources, users will
be denied to use the booking service for 7 consecutive calendar days
if they have failed to claim their booking for three times within a
month.
- The booked session is dedicated for playing the booked title only.
Users need to give up the whole booked session by logout the workstation
in order to play another title.
- Users are welcome to contact our counter staff if they have any enquiries
on the booking service.
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