How to Find Local Television Programs

This Search Guide shows you how to search for Library's Local TV Programs in the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC).

• The Local TV Collection - an Introduction

• To Search for Local TV Programs

• Title Search

• Limit Search

• Keyword search

• Program Summary

The Library's Local Television Collection contains nearly 20,500 programs (as of July 2005), covering current affairs, documentary and instructional programs produced by TVB, ATV, RTHK and Cable TV since early 1980’s.   Starting from December 2004, local TV programs are available in DVD format while those released in 2002 are also available for remote access in the Library's Video-on-Demand web page.

On the Library Home Page:

• Click to enter the Catalogue Menu from the Library Catalogue icon.

• Pull down the “Change to” list to select Local TV Collection.

In the Local TV Collection web page, you may

• Search for solely local TV programs by title, subject, keywords or call number.

• Enter the title or the first few words of the title to search.

• Program titles or series titles can be used in a title search.

  • Series title – e.g. 鏗鏘集, 時事追擊, 新聞透視, Media Watch. Newsline, Money Magazine, etc.

  • Program title - the title of the program episode, e.g. 醫藥分家, Smoking ban, etc.

• Omit initial articles, such as “A”, “An” & “The”.

• After a title or subject search, limit or refine the search result by pressing "Limit this Search" or "Modify Search" button.

• Specify the range of publication year if necessary.

  e.g. “After 2000 and Before 2002” for programs broadcast in 2001.

• Specify the desired language – Chinese or English, if necessary.

• Specify particular words in title or subjects, if necessary.

• Enter the distinct words or phrase containing information of the required program(s).

• Or select “Title” in the drop-down list and enter any title words of the program(s).  Use the Boolean operator “and” &  “or” between the search words, where necessary.

• Specify the publication year and/or language, if necessary.

• Make sure Local TV Collection is specified in the Collection Subset field.

• An English program summary prepared by the Library is provided in most local TV program records to describe the content outline of the program. 

• Words in this summary are indexed and can be used in keyword search.

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last updated: 05-Sep-2006