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LIBRARY NEWS LIBRARY CATALOG - NEW LOOK, NEW LOGO, NEW NAME! F ive years ago, the Louisville Public Library joined When you access your patron record online, several new forces with the Boulder Public Library and the Mamie features are available: Doud Eisenhower Public Library in Broomfield to bring a *Viewing Checked Out Items allows you to sort by due Web-based catalog with enhanced features to our customers. date so you can see right away what is due next. Now the three municipal libraries have a new look, a new *View Holds now offers you the ability to Freeze a hold to logo, and a new name: maintain your place in the queue while out of town, then Un-Freeze the hold when you return. diAA bReading History allows you to Opt In if you want to FI t i r n s Library 0 r1 s 0 rt i 11'1 participate and then records titles that you have checked out. You alone can view your history, delete selected titles, delete all titles,or Opt Out at any time. The new look of the shared Web catalog incorporates all *My Ratings allows you to rate titles in the catalog, keeps the previous features,with several exciting new components a record of your own ratings, and averages your ratings with and streamlined user functionality. those of other customers for an overall rating of titles. Customers accessing the catalog will find a single search You can even search the catalog while logged in to your point for any index: Keyword,Author,Title, etc., and the patron record and select items to place on hold.A button ability to narrow a search to any library collection. Once a with a big red X will alert you to search is performed, the results screen will display the titles, log out of your record. LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRAR) authors, publishers, dates. and formats of each entry.At that While the new catalog is 950 SPRUCE STREET point, customers have the ability to display only items that designed to be intuitive,Library 303.335.4849 are currently available for checkout. From the results screen staff members are always avail- 1, MONDAY-THURSDAY customers can view the full record,view more information able to assist you with your 10:00 AM-8:00 PM about the title, place a hold, or add titles to a list. Once a information needs. Please stop FRIDAY&SATURDAY list is created customers can put all items on the list on hold by the Adult Services desk if you 10:00 AM 6:00 PM (limit of 20 holds per patron) with a single login of name and have questions or would like a SUNDAY library card number. demonstration. 1:OOPM- 5:OOPM TEEN READ WEEK POSTSCRIPT AT THE LIBRARY SUMMER READING PROGRAM Q:What is the title of Shakespeare's play that would fit in A rea teens will be reading for the fun of it as the with our Summer Reading Program theme? ouisville Public Library celebrates the eighth A: "Measure for Measure" 4 This correct answer to a trivia question for the sum- 'k=� annual Teen Read Week, October 16-22, 2005. They mer reading program for adults was submitted by r join hundreds of other libraries, schools, and bookstores quite a few participants. But one of our patrons, across the country that are encour- 1 Heather McGarey,went even further! She`constructed' an en- aging teens to celebrate this year's It I. tire Shakespearean paragraph about our new Library building: theme, "Get Real! Oa Your Library." 1- "The building of the new library in our little Hamlet of Lou- This year's theme encourages }. isville will hopefully not be a Comedy of Errors and it would teens to explore the world ofn on- your library —� be a Midsummer Night's Dream if it could be built by the fiction books, such as biographies, Twelfth Night but I think that is Much Ado About Nothing self-help books, strange but true stories, and more. The because the library will be built As You Like It, to withstand Library will offer special programs and activities, so The Tempest, tornados, and floods so there will be no Love's check the web site and signs posted in the Library for Labor's Lost if it's constructed Measure for Measure" We enjoyed her extra effort and gave her a special prize for her more information. creativity! October/November 2005 4