Part 2: Reading Your Search Results
What’s with the new catalog display that groups items together?
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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:
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:
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!
Joan Grey says
March 1, 2016 at 5:40 pmI 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 amHi 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.
Judy Miller says
March 9, 2016 at 4:26 pmI miss the convenient best seller lists. Can you bring them back?
Web Editor says
March 11, 2016 at 11:44 amJudy,
The best sellers list is a feature that we are working to recreate in the new catalog – look for it soon!
Mobrella says
April 29, 2016 at 9:01 amThank 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!