Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2023. Happy Place by Emily Henry Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Simply Lies by David Baldacci The 23rd Midnight by James Patterson Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel by Patti Callahan Henry It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel by Tom Hanks The Wedding Planner by Danielle Steel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in April 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Simply Lies by David Baldacci Dark Angel by John Sandford I Will Find You by Harlan Coben Homecoming by Kate Morton Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Countdown by James Patterson It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline Happy Place by Emily Henry Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in March 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Storm Watch by C. J. Box I Will Find You by Harlan Coben Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Spare by Prince Harry Pineapple Street: A Novel by Jenny Jackson Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Verity by Colleen Hoover The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel The London Séance Society: A Novel by Sarah Penner How Do We Know?
By Abby Blachly in Lists
Today we’re happy to highlight some of the creative lists created and shared by librarians around the globe, using Librarian Recommends: Lists. With Librarian Recommends: Lists, these lists (and hundreds more) can display right in your library’s catalog, ready to inspire discovery.
Use Cover Upload to upload images to the Syndetics Unbound image repository. Utilizing an easy drag and drop upload tool, Syndetics Unbound helps to streamline the process for updating images in your catalog, enhancing discoverability. This new service is available for all Syndetics Unbound subscribers. You can use Cover Upload to either add an image where one is missing or to replace an incorrect or low-quality image. Uploaded images will be reviewed by Syndetics Unbound librarians before being included in the image repository.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in February 2023. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Spare by Prince Harry The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Encore in Death by J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in January 2023. Spare by Prince Harry Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult The House of Wolves by James Patterson The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller by John Grisham A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo Without a Trace by Danielle Steel Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear How Do We Know?
Did you know that Syndetics Unbound’s Librarian Recommends: Lists—an enrichment that allows librarians to curate lists to showcase staff picks, genre guides, and other topics—can also be displayed outside the catalog? Use List Display Widgets to showcase your Lists on library or catalog homepages, LibGuides, or any other webpage. Watch this tutorial on how to create List Display Widgets, and find all the Librarian Recommends: Lists tutorials here.
Yesterday we posted the top titles of 2022 in US Public libraries. Here are the top titles for Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom! Australia It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Verity by Colleen Hoover The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.
Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2022! We’ve compiled the most popular books in public libraries around the world, drawing on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound to add covers, recommendations, summaries, series information and other enhancements to their library catalogs. This post covers the United States. Tomorrow we’ll be releasing the data for Australia, Canada and the UK. First, here’s a “bar chart race” showing the top books changing over the year.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in December 2022. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Desert Star by Michael Connelly Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver The Choice by Nora Roberts Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich Fairy Tale by Stephen King No Plan B by Lee Child The Whittiers by Danielle Steel The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Triple Cross by James Patterson How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in November 2022. The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Desert Star by Michael Connelly Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine by Janet Evanovich No Plan B by Lee Child It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Verity by Colleen Hoover It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Long Shadows by David Baldacci The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Triple Cross by James Patterson Fairy Tale by Stephen King I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama How Do We Know?
Syndetics Unbound has released Audio Clips, part of the Look Inside element, which allows users to listen to a snippet of the audiobook. This enhancement includes an audio player that contains a sample sound bite from the audiobook, so that patrons can hear an excerpt. Audio Clips give patrons the chance to discover the narration of a title they may be interested in, and is another useful way to curate their reading list.
By Noel Smart in Lists
The kitchen can be overwhelming during the holiday season. Don’t fret, we have a Librarian Recommends: Lists full of comfort food and accomplishments from world-renowned chefs. It’s the most wonderful time of the year – or not – for those who host family and friends for the holidays. Gatherings imply an expectation of good food and reconnection, especially after the seclusion of the last few years. Lane Public Library recently created a Librarian Recommends: Lists that focuses on the memoirs and stories of chefs from all over the globe.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in October 2022. Verity by Colleen Hoover The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult Long Shadows by David Baldacci Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks Fairy Tale by Stephen King It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by Celeste Ng It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Righteous Prey by John Sandford I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Winners by Fredrik Backman Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Treasure State by C.
By Noel Smart in Lists
Step right up to win your next favorite book with the Librarian Recommends: Lists Makers Challenge! Our newest enrichment, Librarian Recommends: Lists, was created to help librarians boost catalog engagement and circulation in their libraries. Now, we’re giving librarians the chance to score a new book for their personal collection! The first 50 libraries that create and publish at least five lists1 by December 15, 2022, will automatically be entered into our Librarian Recommends: Lists Maker Challenge.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in September 2022. Fairy Tale by Stephen King I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Verity by Colleen Hoover It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens All Good People Here: A Novel by Ashley Flowers Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Blowback by James Patterson Dreamland: A Novel by Nicholas Sparks The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Desperation in Death by J.
Today we’re pleased to announce Librarian Recommends: Lists—a new enrichment in Syndetics Unbound, free to subscribers, that allows librarians to curate lists within the catalog, showcasing topics, genres, staff picks, and more. Lists can also be showcased outside the catalog, on library or catalog homepages. Check it out in this quick video. By default, lists are shared between libraries, so your patrons can benefit from the expertise and creativity of librarians in thousands of libraries around the world.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in August 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Verity by Colleen Hoover The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci The It Girl by Ruth Ware I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus All Good People Here: A Novel by Ashley Flowers Shattered (Michael Bennett Book 14) by James Patterson The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Sparring Partners by John Grisham Overkill by Sandra Brown Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Midnight Library by Matt Haig How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in July 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager Verity by Colleen Hoover The It Girl by Ruth Ware The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Sparring Partners by John Grisham The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Escape by James Patterson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Horse by Geraldine Brooks Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel by Daniel Silva Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley How Do We Know?
Experts suggest summer learning loss – also known as the summer slide – can lead to students losing up to one-third of the coursework they learned during the school year. It’s a statistic that has one public library working to support student learning year-round. Summer break is often bursting with sounds of kids letting loose, families enjoying each other’s company, and friends spending adventure-laden days in the sun. Summertime in many households means school’s out and schoolwork is not in.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in June 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. Sparring Partners by John Grisham Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Nightwork: A Novel by Nora Roberts It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han Meant to Be: A Novel by Emily Giffin Verity by Colleen Hoover The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Book Lovers by Emily Henry The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 22 Seconds by James Patterson Dream Town by David Baldacci The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks How Do We Know?
Will you be at American Library Association’s 2022 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC this weekend? Stop by the ProQuest/Clarivate booth (#2507) to catch up with the Syndetics Unbound product team and get a sneak peek at what’s coming soon to Syndetics Unbound: Lists. Lists are a new element soon to be released within Syndetics Unbound that empowers librarians to curate and display custom book lists right in the catalog.
One-third of books banned from U.S. school libraries tell LGBTQ+ stories. Now, libraries on college campuses and in communities face an increased responsibility to make queer stories accessible. For many in the U.S., Pride Month in June is a time to commemorate and celebrate the advancements of the LGBTQ+ community. But some believe recent concerted efforts to ban LGBTQ+ literature in schools across America pose a threat to strides previous generations of LGBTQ+ people have made toward achieving total acceptance.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. 22 Seconds by James Patterson* Dream Town by David Baldacci Book Lovers by Emily Henry* Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner* The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Book of Night by Holly Black Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson The Investigator by John Sandford The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in April 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. This month saw eight such titles—the most in quite a while! What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline* Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson* The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley The Investigator by John Sandford* Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in March 2022. To help you keep up with hot new titles, we’ll be marking with an asterisk the first time they appear on the top-20 list. This month saw eight such titles—the most in quite a while! Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson* The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley Shadows Reel by C. J. Box* The Match by Harlan Coben* The Maid by Nita Prose One Italian Summer: A Novel by Rebecca Serle* The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Love of My Life by Lucy Robinson Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks* It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Club by Ellery Lloyd* The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Verity by Colleen Hoover The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich* The Lightning Rod by Brad Meltzer* House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J.
The number of banned and challenged books in schools is increasing. Here’s what librarians can do about it. School libraries have provided a safe space for learning about diverse cultures and lifestyles for generations. They’ve been that special place where kids could get extra help on an assignment or take a walk in someone else’s shoes by simply picking up a book. However, the range of perspectives available in school libraries is under threat, as parental concerns regarding content available to their children is backed by changes in U.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in February 2022. The Maid by Nita Prose The Midnight Library by Matt Haig One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Abandoned in Death by J. D. Robb The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover The Horsewoman by James Patterson The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Verity by Colleen Hoover Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston The Judge’s List by John Grisham Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in January 2022. The Maid by Nita Prose Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Judge’s List by John Grisham It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Something to Hide by Elizabeth George The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Invisible: A Novel by Danielle Steel One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner The Horsewoman by James Patterson The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom Verity by Colleen Hoover A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah The Wish by Nicholas Sparks How Do We Know?
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in December 2021 The big new in Decemeber are two books released in the last week of November: Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here and Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Wish You Were Here is the first bestselling “COVID novel.” The plot involves a young professional stranded in the Galápagos, her soon-to-be-fiancé left behind to fight the virus as a doctor in New York.
Syndetics Unbound’s year-end “Top Titles” list for all of 2021! We’ve compiled the most searched-for and looked-at books in public and academic libraries around the world, drawing on the thousands of libraries that use Syndetics Unbound. Check out this “bar chart race” of the top searched-for books in US public libraries! I hope you find it as mesmerizing as we do. View this visualisation on Flourish. United States Public Libraries Here are the top 50 books in US public libraries across all of 2021.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in November 2021 Only a few of the November Top Titles are new to the list. Among the stand-alone titles was Never, a political thriller by Ken Follett. Weighing in at 800 pages, Never is an “action-packed, globe-spanning drama.” A number of series also received new sequels: Diana Gabaldon released the eighth “Outlander” book, Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone; Janet Evanovich released the 28th “Stephanie Plum” book, Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight; David Baldacci released a fouth “Atlee Pine” book Mercy; and Michael Connelly released the fourth “Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel,” The Dark Hours.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in October 2021. Fall has seen a number of big releases in literary fiction. Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway took first place in October, with glowing reviews from the New York Times and NPR. Patrons were also eager to read Anthony Doerr’s newly-released Cloud Cuckoo Land, which ranges from the 15c siege of Constantinople, to modern-day Idaho and future interstellar space.
It was a season of hot, fun, sometimes escapist reads. Summer isn’t officially over until September 22, but with most children back in school or about to go back, it feels over already. Did you get any beach reading done? (We did, and it felt great.) The 50 Most Popular Here are the fifty most popular books in US public libraries from June 1 to August 31, according to Syndetics Unbound.
Introducing the new Bowker Book Data website. ProQuest and LibraryThing, the co-developers of Syndetics Unbound, have announced Bowker Book Data, a new website for anyone interested in high-quality book data. Check out the website here: https://bowkerbookdata.proquest.com. Find out More The power of Syndetics Unbound comes from a combination of detailed, comprehensive data delivered and a simple, easy-to-implement architecture. A single line of code added to a library catalog or other book-world system brings everything alive, from enhancing records with data to rich exploratory features, such as similar books, series lists and professional reviews.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in July 2021. This month sees both continuing summer favorites and some new releases. July saw The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave in first place in libraries for the third straight month. New in July are The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, and The Paper Palace, a debut novel by Miranda Cowley Heller.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in June 2021. Summer is here! The author of this newsletter believes a “beach read” is whatever you read on the beach, but publishers time certain releases for the summer. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid heads the June arrivals. Following a family of adult children on a literal beach in Malibu, Ophrah Weekly wrote “If summer could somehow fit into a book, then you’d find it in Malibu Rising.
The following is adapted from an article by Stella Griffiths, Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency and Chair of ISO/TC46/SC9, that first appeared on ISQ (Information Standard Quarterly), a NISO (National Information Standards Organization) publication, in September 2015. The original article can be found at https://bit.ly/3wTpfZ2 ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is an international standard first published under the auspices of ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) in 1972. Right from the introduction of the very earliest audiobooks, microforms, and CD-ROMs, ISBN has not been a standard only for printed materials, though of course, print will always be important.
Show off your LGBTQ+ titles with Book Display Widgets. To celebrate Pride Month, we’ve made a page on our LibGuide of Book Display Widgets that showcase LGBTQ+ titles. Book Display Widgets, as we’ve mentioned before, are a great way to show off your collection. Our curated widgets on the LibGuide make it fast and simple to copy a widget into your own Syndetics Unbound account. Just click “Get This Widget” and it’s yours.
Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2021. Summer is coming, and so are the books of summer! May saw popular new books from Laura Dave, Andy Weir, James Patterson, Jennifer Weiner and Maggie Shipstead. Georgia politician and voting-rights advocate Stacey Abrams, who had previously written under the pen name Selena Montgomery, released the legal thriller While Justice Sleeps. And Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, released the only non-fiction book on top-20: The Premonition, a narrative a “nonfiction thriller” on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Learn more about how Georgia Tech Library has enhanced their physical browsing experience for users with Syndetics Unbound. The Syndetics Unbound Browse Shelf interactive feature gives library patrons the physical browsing experience by using call numbers to pull titles into a virtual library shelf on the website. Browse Shelf cultivates the experience of searching a library’s stacks online, giving users a more traditional, serendipitous feel, similar to actually being inside the library.
Learn more about ProQuest’s use of library classification systems Written by Michael Olenick, Sr. Content Business Analyst at ProQuest With many different subject classification systems where most are referred to by their acronyms, it is sometimes hard to tell your BISAC from your BIC from your LCSH. Here is a brief overview of some classification systems that are used by our content team. BISAC subjects have been the North American book industry standard for over 25 years.
A closer look at the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) By Pat Payton, ProQuest Senior Manager for Provider Relations and a Member of the BISG Metadata Committee This week’s Syndetics Unbound story takes a deep dive into Bowker’s activities within the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), an independent not-for-profit group, with members from all over the book industry, including ProQuest/Bowker. Their work has a far-reaching impact on the library industry, including on Syndetics Unbound.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in April 2021. This month saw much interest in the newly-published The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman. Subtitled “An Inaugural Poem for the Country,” this was the poem Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration. Other notable new books include James Patterson’s The Red Book, Martha Hall Kelly’s Sunflower Sisters and Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig remain at the top of the list.
Did you know that if your library subscribes to Ebook Central’s Academic Complete, your instance of Ebook Central contains elements of Syndetics Unbound to help highlight the titles in your Ebook Central Collections? Many libraries use Academic Complete as the beginning foundation to their ebook collection. Syndetics Unbound displays some elements within Ebook Central to highlight and enrich those titles. Academic Complete subscribers get the added value of 7 of the 18 available enrichment elements within the Ebook Central Platform, which include You May Also Like, About the Author, Awards, Reader Reviews, Tags, AltMetrics and RCL Core Titles.
In recent years, April 23rd has been a special day for the employees of ProQuest. It has been a time to recognize and celebrate World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day. This annual event first started on April 23, 1995, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. As a company whose entire business revolves around books and libraries, ProQuest has celebrated this day in years past by encouraging employees to dress up as characters from their favorite books.
ProQuest has reached an agreement with Patron Point to include Syndetics Unbound elements in their newsletter service. Recommends, is a reading recommendation service that helps libraries market content to their patrons and increase engagement and usage of their collection. Recommends helps users create eye-catching, branded monthly newsletters for new titles from the library’s catalog enriched with recommendations, summaries, and covers from Syndetics Unbound. The newsletters connect patrons straight to the library catalog to place a hold on the titles or search for other content.
Here are the top twenty titles public-library patrons looked for in March 2021. New this month include Life After Death: A Novel by Sister Souljah, the sequel to her 1999 bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian science fiction novel Klara and the Sun. We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker was not released until the beginning of April, but interest was high in March. A quick check of some participating libraries finds a lot of holds!
Recently, ProQuest released Enrichment Highlights a new Syndetics Unbound functionality that improves a library’s search results page by adding key enrichment elements to them. Mount Laurel Library was an early adopter of this free update and has seen an increase in their collection usage as a result of it. “We added the Enrichment Highlights functionality to our catalog last December. Now the Syndetics Unbound content appears in the search results list making it much more visible to our patrons and staff.
