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If you’ve visited the web catalog from the Heights Libraries website, you may have noticed that it has changed . . . drastically!

The new web catalog is called BiblioCommons and it has a lot more power and functionality than the old web catalog.

Of course, that still leaves you having to learn how to use this new catalog.

Never fear, the Undead Rat is here for you. Well, maybe BiblioCommons is here for you. They made these instructive videos, I just put them on my blog where they’d be easy to find.

By the way: There are more videos available on the BiblioCommons’s YouTube Channel.

BiblioCommons: An Introduction to your Library Catalog

You should watch this if nothing else. I’ve been using BiblioCommons for a while now and I still learned something new. Anyway, this is a great introduction.

BiblioCommons: Easy Account Management

If you want to interact with BiblioCommons, you’ll need to make an account. Here is how you do that.

BiblioCommons: Smart Search

If you’re looking for books or CDs or DVDs or what have you, you really owe it to yourself to watch this video.

BiblioCommons: Creating Complex Queries

If you’re still having trouble finding books or CDs or DVDs or what have you, you really owe it to yourself to watch this video.

BiblioCommons: Creating Lists for your Users

This was one of my favorite videos. As a readers’ adviser, I geek out on book lists!

Although this video addresses librarians, anyone — librarian, staff or patron — can make lists with BiblioCommons. This video tells how to do it but also explains when you’d want to make a list and when you’d want to use tags.

BiblioCommons: Fully-Integrated Subject Guides

Now you know the theory about making lists — this video will teach you the methods.

BiblioCommons Tagging: New Pathways for your Library Users

Sometimes making a list isn’t the best way to link material. So try using tags.

Although this video addresses librarians, anyone — librarian, staff or patron — can tag material in BiblioCommons. This video tells how to do it but also explains when you’d want to make a list and when you’d want to use tags.

This post originally appeared in Thrillers, Horror, Comics and Audio Books: The Lair of the Undead Rat as Learn about Our New Web Catalog: BiblioCommons.

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