User Guide for TWC Search

Always remember to Log Out your account after use.

 

Click on “Sign Out”at the top right-hand corner of the page.

 

To view your Borrowing Record, you should:

You can view your records of loans, requests, fine and fees in here.

To renew the borrowed items, please login your account. In the “Loans” tab, click the renew button  for extending the loan period.

When renewal of the item(s) is/are successful, the below screen would be shown.

You can make hold requests for the item(s) of the Circulation Collections (main items) when all the copies of the certain items are checked out or reserved by another user(s). Each staff or student can make a total of ten (10) hold requests concurrently. To make a hold request, you should:

Type in the keywords and click the “Search” button. The default search scope of the system is vast and it will provide the search outcomes in all varieties.

All keywords are case-insensitive. Use double quotation marks (" ") to bracket a phrase, e.g. “occupational therapy”. Use truncation symbols such as (*) or (?) to look for variations of an English vocabulary. For example, enter chin* to retrieve the records with the keywords Chinese or China; enter wom?n to find records with the keywords woman or women.

 

(If you want to use more than one search technique at a time or want to limit your search results by adding filters, please use “Advanced Search”.)

 

 

Normally, the systems provide three of searches and they are TWC Search, Library Holdings and Union Search.

You may narrow down the scope of search by applying filters. There are various options of filters which you can select the language, subject, publication date, material type and material type of the items that you are looking for.

 

 

Narrowing your search results by checking their availability of the item(s) that you are looking for.

Make Good Use of the Tabs on the left to get what you need (click Library, Location, Availability, Resources Type, Author/Creator, Creation Date,  Language, Subject, Course Code, and Publisher).

Check the item availability by looking the caption below the items’ information (title, author(s), publisher(s), publication date).

 

 

1. Click the “Available Online” button in brief view.

2. Click the hyperlink in View Online section to access the online resource.

 

 

Physical Items
Check their availability in the Get It tab. If the item(s) is/are unavailable, you should click the title of the item and then look at “Location Items” to view the item(s)’s latest condition (e.g.: no of requests & due-date).

Please Log In if you like to save a search result. If you have found some really useful items, you can save them in your “My Favorites” for later viewing. To save the selected search results, click on the pin icon on the right-hand side of the item column.

 

You also may select multiple records from the search result and save them at once.

To view saved items in your account, you may click the pin symbol that is next to your username or click “Saved Items” in the pop-up menu.

 

“Saved Records” enable readers to add one or more labels to each record(s). To add a label, you should click the pencil icon at the bottom of each item column.

 

Meanwhile, you can select a used label or add a new one by typing on the line under “Add new label”.

To facilitate users utilize the library resources, the Library provides the “Inter-branch Book Delivery” service that allow users to request the library resources in the King's Park Campus Library to borrow at the Kwai Hing Campus Library.

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To make a inter-branch book delivery request, you should:
1. Search library resources at TWC Search.

2. Click the book title to enter the book record full view.

3. Check the item availibility at the “Get It” section.

4. Check if the pick-up location is the [Kwai Hing Campus Library] and press the [Send Request] button.

5. The below screen will be displayed if your request is successfully submitted.

6. An e-mail notice will be sent to your college e-mail account once the requested item is available for pick-up at the Kwai Hing Campus Library.

 

The article(s) which you found are usually belonged to the same subject(s) with their references and those articles which had cited the former. You could trace the references of a certain article and find those articles that cited it on Primo.

 

First, locating and clicking “Citations” on the left side of the page.

 

 

You may export the item information to Mendeley. In the full result view, click the icon under the “Send to" tab.

Please enter your email address to login your Mendeley account or create a free account.

The item information will be exported to Mendeley after login your account.

 

If you want to share the item information, you may: