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New Catalog: Tips and Tricks

Published: February 26, 2016

Part 2: Reading Your Search Results

What’s with the new catalog display that groups items together?

Click each image to enlarge for full screen.

 

What’s a Title Group?

The new catalog groups all the different formats of the same title together: Book, eBook, Audiobook, eAudiobook, and Large Type, so that you can easily find many versions of the same book.

The Title Group is like an umbrella, under which all the formats hang out:

Title Group

 

Click on the blue Format button (Book, eBook, etc) to find information about the specific version of the title you’re looking for, including call numbers and copy due dates:

Title Group Book More Info

 

A note about Title Groups: DVDs of films based on a book are not grouped within a Title Group, because they are not actually a matching text.

Similarly, an updated edition of a book or DVD will have its own Title Group.

 

New Catalog, Part 3 – Coming Soon!

 

February 26, 2016 by Web Editor Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Joan Grey says

    March 1, 2016 at 5:40 PM

    I like the new format, as I’m getting used to it. Is there an easy way to return an ebook, so others can check it out, if I finish before the due date?

    • Web Editor says

      March 2, 2016 at 7:34 AM

      Hi Joan,

      OverDrive eBooks can be returned early from either your OverDrive app or the Amazon website (check details for your device), but not from the Library catalog.

  2. Judy Miller says

    March 9, 2016 at 4:26 PM

    I miss the convenient best seller lists. Can you bring them back?

    • Web Editor says

      March 11, 2016 at 11:44 AM

      Judy,

      The best sellers list is a feature that we are working to recreate in the new catalog – look for it soon!

  3. Mobrella says

    April 29, 2016 at 9:01 AM

    Thank you for producing a “new & improved” website that is actually an improvement! Impressed that the Arlington County Library System was able to leverage an existing system to minimize cost & effort. It is a joy to have the entire catalog at my “virtual” fingertips!

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