The ORL homepage will be getting a new look early in February.
There will be more options for one-click access to popular resources, including Zinio for Libraries, the ORL’s digital magazine service, and TumbleBookCloud, containing digital chapter books for upper elementary to high school aged readers.
The new design provides the ORL with an opportunity to feature the ORL’s Enhanced Catalogue. Neat elements of the Enhanced Catalogue include:
- a smart search experience: keyword searching offers relevancy ranked results so the titles at the top of the list are more likely to be of interest to you. There is also an auto-suggest function for author and subject searching;
- ability to register a username so that you don’t have to always remember your barcode;
- optional social networking features, which will allow you to rate and post comments on items in the catalogue, as well as share booklists with other library members.
The ORL will not be the only ones to change their look. OverDrive, the company that hosts ORL eBooks and Library to Go, will be updating their platform as well. Expect a more streamlined checkout process and an easier book finding experience with filtered searching, personalized title recommendations and more.