Our online catalog offers more than just titles, call numbers, and availability. We also include 1st chapters, synopses, series info, and author background along with a few other options for most of our collection.
These additions to our catalog entries include:
- Cover art
- Summary
- About the Author (with a picture)
- More by this Author
- Look inside (may include 1st chapter, excerpt, table of contents)
- Series with an option to see the entire series - any titles we don't own are pictured with their covers grayed out
- You May Also Like... - includes top picks, titles by similar authors, readers' suggest, more by tag, same genre, same author, same series - all these come from the LT database
- Professional Reviews (including New York Times)
- Reader Reviews
- Tags - subjects of books that non-library people would think of, like, stalking, liars, TV series
- Book profile - about the book. You can search attributes, time period, genre, topics, characters, occupation of characters, etc. for related titles from book profiles.
- Reading level - Lexile and grade/age levels - can get suggestions for other titles in this range
- Awards - not just the big awards, but local as well
- Also Available As - different formats of the title that we have
- Video and Music
- Video Games
Here are a few examples of the enhancements:
- Janet Evanovich – Fearless Fourteen (ebook version)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1518075~S9 - Ellen Miles – Pugsley (Reading level)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1340813~S4 - Rachel Renee Russell - Dork Diaries #4 (series, reader reviews)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1354256~S4 - The Monkees – Forever (CD) (Summary, track list, music profile, similar artists)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1662415~S9 - Driveclub – PS4 video game (cover, screen shots,and release info)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1438006~S14 - Superman II – DVD (summary, release info, other formats, suggestions, reviews, tags)
http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com/record=b1565912~S9
There is a lot of great information available in our catalog. The new info will be found below our cataloged information and will start with the heading: More From Syndetics Unbound. If you have any questions about these features, please ask one of our staff members.
