Librarian: If your library subscribes to BookBrowse, please log in to see customized URLs for your library. If you're on a library computer, you should be automatically recognized If not, you can login via the link on your library's website or at bookbrowse.com/library.
All libraries that subscribe to remote patron access are provided with an easy-to-remember "quick link" to BookBrowse's homepage so patrons do not always have to enter BookBrowse via a link on the library's website, instead they can simply go direct to the unique for their library.
For example, the quick link for our test library is: bookbrowse.com/myt
Libraries can use this as:
Librarian: If your library subscribes to BookBrowse, please log in to see customized URLs for your library. If you're on a library computer, you should be automatically recognized If not, you can login via the link on your library's website or at bookbrowse.com/library.
Subscribing libraries can link direct to any BookBrowse page so that patrons can access their library's version of BookBrowse with one click.
If you were viewing this page as a subscribed library, you would see links to all BookBrowse's core pages already formated for your library, with easy to implement examples of how to create a link to any other of our tens of thousands of pages.
Below are three sample links for our test library, "My Town Library," so you can click and see for yourself how they work.
Home page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=
Book club landing page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=bookclubs
A typical book review page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=mag/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/3938
The big challenge with electronic resources is getting patrons to use them. So often, the resources are tucked away on an internal page on the library's website, so, the first hurdle is for a user to find the right section. Then, having found an electronic resource of interest, those accessing remotely have to find their library number and log in--before even knowing if the resource is going to meet their needs. And then they have to navigate to whatever content might be of interest without necessarily knowing what is available or where to look.
BookBrowse's proprietary technology removes these barriers by enabling patrons, including those accessing remotely, to start browsing any part of BookBrowse immediately. So, for example, you could link directly to our discussion guide section, so that patrons are able to immediately access our 1500+ discussion guides. Patrons in the library are then free to browse any part of BookBrowse in full; while remote patrons are able to view some pages, and will then be asked to enter their library card number to continue browsing; having done so,they are seamlessly redirected back to where they left off.
This technology also enables libraries to embed BookBrowse's apps
into their library's pages; for example to search for read-alike suggestions or find recommendations for their book club.
If you are viewing this page from a subscribing library, your library's special "login-free remote access" code has been automatically built in to all the links shown on this page.
