Online Library Management

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- After I found the document that I wanted, I click the first document (like the result from the image). Then the site will display all available documents with this name in Central Library and some information about it.

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- To add the document into list (or Cart), User can click on “Save to List” button.

- If the user want to request the document from the library, user can click the “Request” button. After click, user need to enter user’s Patron number (library ID) and then select the location to pick up the document and the expiration date. User can choose to request this specific document or any document with this title.

- Save Session & Close session

- View search history

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- Users can view their search history by click on the “Search History” button. In search history, users can see their search history for each type of search: basic, keyword, advance, and heading keyword search.

- User can also perform a search from Search History.

- View cart (book list)

- After searching for a document as I’ve done in part (2) and click on “Save to List” button, this document and its information is now in my book list:

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- From the book list, user can perform some actions for a document or all documents in book list:

- Refresh Book List: refresh the book list when user has recently add documents to book list or remove.

- Delete selected record: below the information there is a checkbox “Check to select this record for deletion”, which means users have to tick this checkbox if they want to remove this document from book list.

- Clear book list: Remove all documents from book list.

- Save or print book list: User can choose the view of the book list if they want to save or print the book list: brief, full, item, holdings, marc, endnote view.

- E-mail: User can send the book list by E-mail to a person.

- View databases (login required)

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- User can view the databases from global resources or domestic resources. Click on one of those database will redirect you to the site that you can search from those site, but each site (global and domestic) require that user must have an account from these sites to access the database.

- View information

- User can view information about:

- News

- Documents (new/available)

- Services

- Central library

- VNU library system

- Members of VNU – Ho Chi Minh city

- Catalog

- Working hours

- Useful Library websites

- Sponsors

- Online assistance

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- User can get more information by sending message to library staff. The box in the right-bottom is where user send message.

- If there is no staff online, user can leave message by email, Facebook…. The staffs will check messages and reply to users later.