Archive for the ‘Catalog’ Category

Success! Finding what you want in our catalog – pt. 2

This is a follow-up post to an earlier one I wrote a few weeks ago. Some of our readers suggested a post explaining how to limit the search to a certain format, so that they can see what’s available as a Playaway, for example. Hopefully after reading this post, you’ll be able to limit your [...]

Success! Finding what you want in our catalog

A common complaint that we get at the desk on the second floor is about our catalog. People often say they aren’t able to find what they’re looking for. Library catalogs are designed to, amongst other things, support fairly complicated searches by library staff. This can mean that the average user gets stymied. So until [...]

What's New?

Interested in finding out what is new in the library?  Our Classic Catalog can help.  By using the New Items tab you can see what we have just added to the collection as well as titles that will hit the shelves soon.    You can even limit your search to a particular collection like DVDs, [...]

Argh! Why does the library have only one copy of that super-popular book?!

Why does the library have only one copy of (insert super-popular book title here)?!? This is a very common question/complaint we get from you, our library users.

Check out our new catalog

We are happy to announce a new way to search our library’s collection.   Our current catalog is not going away but we now have an alternative way to search.