The new catalog is now available. Go to the library website for complete information on logging in, searching the catalog, and reserving and renewing books from home.
All adult fiction, nonfiction, audiobooks, and magazines are in the catalog. Videos, genealogy and reference will be finished in about a month. All the young adult books and about half the juvenile books are now in the catalog.
The catalog software is called Liberty3, from SoftLink (an Australian company). Many corporate and medical libraries in the U.S. use their software. In Europe, the software is very popular with university libraries. SoftLink is trying to break into the smaller public library market in the U.S. with this version of their software.
Unlike our old catalog, the new software is maintained outside the library (on servers owned by SoftLink). We no longer need to maintain or backup our system software or daily transactions. All we need is an Internet connection to get to our catalog and circulation system.
Please take some time to get acquainted with the catalog from your home computer. You will need to log in using your library card number as your user name (include the zero). Do not enter a password. You will be able to add a password later, from your account menu, if you wish to do so. If you have not yet done so, please come into the library to update you records and get put into te new system!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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