SAPPHO: THE SITTING ROOM'S ONLINE CATALOG
New year/new you, Sappho
Sappho, the Sitting Room’s library catalog has a new look for 2018. It is quite a friendly face as well as helpful, we think, and here’s the link to try it out: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room
That link is the simple search mode, which allows for searching any title words, words in authors’ names or collections. A good sample search for browsing this way is graphic novels, or Afghanistan. The results are clearly and simply displayed--indicating in all cases where to find the item on the Sitting Room shelves, and usually providing the book jacket, in case you are among those who remember books visually by their cover.
If you are looking for a specific title or all works by a specific author, you might find the advanced search more efficient:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room/search_adv
Sappho, the Sitting Room’s online catalog, continues to grow, now with almost 6,000 titles. And thanks to Lucas McEuen, one of the Sitting Room interns, the poetry chapbooks, aka “The Spineless Wonders,” can now be browsed in Sappho.
Here’s a link that displays that wondrous new catalog addition:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room/search/text/Spineless+wonders
Of course, nothing compares to an “in-person” browse, but Sappho can keep you company until you make a trip to the Sitting Room, and/or can direct you to specific books once you’re here.
Check it out at home or use the Mac located in the non-fiction area of the Sitting Room. You are also welcome to request a one-on-one tutorial. For more information/questions contact Karen Petersen, kpetaluma@gmail.com.
Sappho, the Sitting Room’s library catalog has a new look for 2018. It is quite a friendly face as well as helpful, we think, and here’s the link to try it out: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room
That link is the simple search mode, which allows for searching any title words, words in authors’ names or collections. A good sample search for browsing this way is graphic novels, or Afghanistan. The results are clearly and simply displayed--indicating in all cases where to find the item on the Sitting Room shelves, and usually providing the book jacket, in case you are among those who remember books visually by their cover.
If you are looking for a specific title or all works by a specific author, you might find the advanced search more efficient:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room/search_adv
Sappho, the Sitting Room’s online catalog, continues to grow, now with almost 6,000 titles. And thanks to Lucas McEuen, one of the Sitting Room interns, the poetry chapbooks, aka “The Spineless Wonders,” can now be browsed in Sappho.
Here’s a link that displays that wondrous new catalog addition:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sitting_Room/search/text/Spineless+wonders
Of course, nothing compares to an “in-person” browse, but Sappho can keep you company until you make a trip to the Sitting Room, and/or can direct you to specific books once you’re here.
Check it out at home or use the Mac located in the non-fiction area of the Sitting Room. You are also welcome to request a one-on-one tutorial. For more information/questions contact Karen Petersen, kpetaluma@gmail.com.
Librarians Raye Lynn Thomas and Karen Peterson working on Sophia.
Look at that comfortable chair.
What a great opportunity to lounge and read!
What a great opportunity to lounge and read!