LIBRARY HANDBOOK

HyRead ebook Service for Library

Photographer: Casli Lao

Aside from the physical collections of books and magazines for readers to borrow, the Macao Public Library also provides plenty of ebooks and emagazines for citizens. Recently, the Macao Public Library has optimised and upgraded the HyRead ebook service, allowing readers to acquire various up-to-date ebook reading resources through this HyRead ebook platform more quickly and conveniently.

 01 　Diversification of Book Genres

HyRead ebook service offers nearly 5000 types of ebooks and over a hundred types of emagazines, covering various book genres such as humanities and social sciences, literature and fiction, finance and business management, life and leisure, as well as parenting and children’s books. Voice navigation and audio files are even offered by some of the ebooks. You can listen to the ebooks by simply pressing a key. Currently, readers can borrow a maximum of 5 ebooks and 3 emagazines at a time, with a loan period of 7 days each time. Ebooks can be renewed once while emagazines can be renewed twice at most, each renewal for 7 more days. If the books have not been returned by the due date, the system will automatically return them.

 02 　Greater Convenience through Borrowing and Returning Anytime, Anywhere

There are three methods for Macao readers to borrow HyRead ebooks and emagazines for free, including website of the Macao Public Library, HyRead ebook mobile application and HyRead mobile library navigation machine. Users with Macao Public Library reader card user account and password can borrow and return ebooks and emagazines by logging onto the website of the Macao Public Library or the HyRead ebook application via a computer or mobile phone anytime and anywhere, whereas readers in the library can make use of the HyRead mobile library navigation machine to select their favourite ebooks. Currently, libraries equipped with the HyRead mobile library navigation machine include Sir Robert Ho Tung Library, Taipa Library and Patane Library .

DIAGRAM SHOWING THE PROPORTIONS OF DIFFERENT GENRES OF HYREAD EBOOKS OF THE MACAO CENTRAL LIBRARY

A CLOSE LOOK AT LIBRARIES

Source: Kanazawa Umimirai Library

Japan      Kanazawa Umimirai Library   

The architectural structure of Kanazawa Umimirai Library is a huge cube, with the four walls pitted with 6000 holes. This kind of design not only effectively absorbs the impact of earthquakes on the walls of the building, but also allows sunlight and air to penetrate into the library through the holes. 25 pillars stand among the bookshelves, making the whole area similar to a forest of books.

Kanazawa Umimirai Library has adopted an automated shelving system to facilitate reading while improving the efficiency of book search. In addition, there are even reading rooms and meeting rooms with the purpose of promoting exchange of ideas among different users and turning the library into a community centre for citizens.