Published 11 June 2009

New HvA Catalogue by mid August

Published 11 June 2009

In August HvA switched to a new system for acquisition, cataloguing and lending. Customers will be faced with a new catalogue at the beginning of the academic year.

Similarities

  • Most functions remain unchanged: (simple) search, advanced search, browsing the indexes, reserving books, extending the loan period, saving and mailing titles
  • Like the current one, the new catalogue will contain individual publications, such as books, journals, manuscripts, e-books, maps and atlases, etc. For finding articles there are other resources (e.g. bibliographic databases in the Digital Library)
  • Library cards and HvA and UvA student cards remain valid for requesting and loaning titles.

Improvements

The new catalogue...

  • shows in the list of hits if a title is available and where
  • shows information from Google Book Search (book cover, table of contents, full text)
  • allows direct export to EndNote
  • sends alerts via e-mail and RSS for new titles of your interest
  • has filters to limit searches to one or more libraries and/or languages
Source: HvA Mediatheken