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Library Facilities


The following facilities are available to Library users:
(Refer to the library floor plan for the locations of the facilities.)

Rooms and Carrels

Study Carrels

Law Discussion Room

Located in the Law Section, the Law Discussion Room is only for law students who need to prepare for moot competitions. Booking is made at the Law Section Counter.


Electronic Resources Workstations

A number of electronic resources workstations are provided near the Law Section of the Library for all library users to use various electronic resources.


Media Resources Workstations

A number of media resources workstations are provided outside the Media Resources Collection Room of the Library for all library users to use various media resources.

Carrels with various equipment are provided in the area for users to use library resources only but not personal media. Available equipment includes:

  • Videocassette players of the following formats: U-matic, VHS
    All of the VCRs are available with mutli-system capacities.
  • Multidisc players
  • Audio cassette deck
  • Multimedia PC computers

N.B.
Microform reader/scanner is available outside the Media Resources Collection Room.

Location map of workstations


Photocopiers, Printers, Scanners and Microform Equipment

Photocopiers and Printers

Photocopiers and printers (release stations) can be found at various locations within the Library. They cater for black and white as well as colour photocopying/printing of A4 and A3 sizes.

Locations of photocopiers and printers (release stations)

Charging rate:

  Photocopying Printing
A4 Black & White HK$0.3 per page HK$0.3 per page
A3 Black & White HK$0.6 per page --
A4 Colour HK$3.0 per page HK$3.0 per page
A3 Colour HK$6.0 per page --

Printing Services

Most of the workstations in the Library are connected to network laser printers.

Users of notebook computers connected to the CityU WLAN or the CityU VPN from any Wi-fi hotspots of ISPs can also print to the network laser printers.

Two types of printing service are available, namely Octopus Card-operated Fast Printing Service (charged printing) and Quota Controlled Fast Print Queue Service (free laser printing using quota limit as assigned by Computing Services Centre):

Printing Services in the Library
Locations of photocopiers and printers (release stations)

Location Octopus Card-operated
Fast Printing Service

A4 Black & White - $0.3/page
A4 Color - $3.0/page

[ default printing service ]
Quota Controlled
Fast Print Queue Service

A4 Black & White only -
free of charge

[ printing instruction ]
Computer Area in the Oval Yes Yes (not the default)
Media PCs outside Media Resources Collection Room Yes No
Information Space Yes (not the default)
[ printing instruction ]
Yes
Law Section Yes No
E-Resources Workstations Area (near Law Section) Yes No
Notebook computers connected to CityU WLAN or CityU VPN Yes (not the default)
[ printing instruction ]
Yes
[ printing instruction ]

Scanners

Workstations no. 826 and no. 835 in the Information Space are connected to colour scanners with OCR capability. They are available to current CityU staff and students of programmes leading to CityU awards. These machines can be used to capture colour images and text documents.

Microform Equipment

Microform readers/scanners located outside the Media Resources Collection Room are available for viewing, printing and scanning microform materials.

Observation of Copyright

Users are reminded to make sure that their photocopying and scanning does not infringe the Copyright Ordinance. The legislation is accessible from the web site of the Department of Justice of the HKSAR Government: http://www.legislation.gov.hk/index.htm.


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