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Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News, Reviews
Delaware Library Catalog user can now write and publish reviews within the catalog. The LibraryThing For Libraries review module was recently added as an option for catalog users, allowing them to read user-generated reviews and add their own! Click here for more instructions, view an animated tutorial here, or go to the catalog and look for the “read reviews/add a review” link in the full records.
Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News
South Coastal Public Library will be closing temporarily to prepare for its move to a new permanent location. The library’s last open day will be Saturday Jan. 31st, with reopening tentatively scheduled for early April 2009. South Coastal library holdings will not be available to library patrons during this time, and patrons placing holds on items should select a different library as a pickup location. The Sussex County Bookmobile will provide alternative service at this location during the closure, and can be selected as a holds pickup location. Click here for the bookmobile schedule and location.
UPDATED: The Sussex County Bookmobile schedule is in transition as of Fall 2009. When a new regular schedule is confirmed it will be posted at the Bookmobile’s website
Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News
Thanks for all of the enthusiasm and approving comments that have been heard in the libraries concerning our new email notices! Not only is this new service providing a new level of convenience to library patrons, it also enables libraries to save money and increase staff efficiencies- two things that are increasingly important during these difficult financial times.
Don’t forget: to sign up for email notices all you have to do is provide a current email address to a staff member the next time you visit one of the Delaware Library Catalog libraries!
Don’t forget that we ALSO offer weekly lists by email of library materials newly added by the libraries, lists of selected web resources, and notices when this webpage is updated. Check out the “connect with us” section on the left-hand side of this page for more details, or to sign up for our “new item feeds“.
Card-holders who provide email addresses may receive following email services:
If you want to receive email notices from your library, please make sure that you have an up-to-date email address on file by updating your patron record next time you are in the library. If you do not want to receive email, you can ask to have your email address removed from your patron record if you have already provided it- if you didn’t provide one, you don’t have to do anything!
If you have junk-mail controls in your email service, you may wish to add sirsi@endeavor.sirsi.net to your list of approved senders. Most library notices will be titled Library Notice (Do not reply to this Email)
Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News
We’re very happy to announce the addition of LibraryThing to our online catalog!
LibraryThing is an online service that helps users list, describe, review, and catalog their own book collections.
(click here to open LibraryThing in a new window)
LibraryThing users have “cataloged” 30 million books, using 40 million+ descriptive, everyday terms to “tag” them. We’ve taken all of that descriptive information, along with the lists of recommended and related titles that are generated by connecting all of the data, and incorporated it into the Delaware Library Catalog.
When you display a book in the online catalog, you will see a lot of useful new information- the descriptive terms (tags) that are most frequently used in the LibraryThing database to describe the content, characters, or genre of the book, along with a list or related or recommended works, all of which can be found in the holdings of one of our member libraries.
Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News
We’re happy to announce that since the launch of the new catalog portal on July 1st, there have been 100,000 visits to this page from library patrons not only in Delaware, but from all over the United States and the World!
We’re also happy to see that visitors are exploring the site and using more and more of the available resources, including links to web resources, information on how to use library services, library maps and calendars and more.
Post a comment in any blog entry to let us know what you think of the new services and how we can improve them.
Written on: February 26th, 2009 in News
Reviews of catalog search activity by Delaware Library Catalog patrons show that one of the main reasons patrons experience unsuccessful book searches or misleading results is from simply mis-spelling title words or author names when using the catalog. The Delaware Division of Libraries, in partnership with Delaware’s libraries, is happy to announce the introduction of the Lucien spell-checking feature, now live in the Delaware Library Catalog.
Previously, an unsuccessful search would only provide a browseable list of terms following alphabetically from the incorrectly-spelled entry. Not so helpful! Lucien checks the mis-spelled word against a constantly updated database and offers a simple and intuitive “did you mean?” choice. Clicking on the alternative spelling will automatically re-run the search and return the results the patron was looking for. We hope that this tool will be helpful for our younger patrons, persons with limited English proficiency, and hasty typists.
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