Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has announced enhancements to its suite of library resources. These include Books In Print, Syndetics Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues.
Books In Print claims to be an essential resource for libraries and their patrons for collection development, purchasing, content management and personal library purposes. The enhanced version features a new visual search interface; intuitive relevancy-ranked results; more than 50 interactive faceted refine options; edition grouping and FRBR; and rating, tagging and user reviews.
Syndetic Solutions is positioned as a premier source of specialised, high-quality enriched data designed to enhance library online catalogues. A library's catalogue is the primary entry point for most library users. Syndetics gives libraries over 11 million descriptive data elements relating to books, audio books, videos, CDs, and DVDs, which are seen to deliver richer, more informative results and create a significantly better experience with the catalogue.
Syndetics features more than 25 data elements, with new options continually being added. Various elements of content are added weekly for more than 100,000 new titles each year. Enrichment options include cover images, tables of contents, plot summaries, chapter excerpts, author biographies, series information, award and reviews.
The new Syndetics Plus combines Syndetics content enrichment elements with advanced widget technology to seamlessly integrate this data within a library's OPAC. As a result, using and accessing Syndetics' data is now projected to be easier for libraries and their customers. The widget allows for customised implementation that makes the Syndetics content neatly match the look and feel of the OPAC.
For those already using the content enrichment options available through Syndetic Solutions, Bowker's Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) offers enhanced search options. It is seen to help users offer their patrons more search returns with tables of contents, fiction profiles and summaries, right through the library's online catalogue.
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