We made a couple of changes to online library tools that we wanted you to be aware of.
We switched the position of the Book a Mobile Device and Library Research Center buttons on the library’s home page. We hope that putting the Library Research Center button in the top left position will make it easier for new visitors to our website to find that page, where we give a guided presentation of our various types of information resources and the tools to find useful information from them.
The change also effects the placement of the button on the mobile view of the library home page.
We also re-labeled the Primo search system’s “Collections” feature to “Featured Books”. Primo serves as the library’s online catalog, and also searches across many of our research databases. Primo’s Featured Books function allows us to create curated lists of items grouped by special topics or categories, such as graded readers for ESL students, books in the Hawaiian language, selections from our Best Sellers collection, new books, and e-books and audiobooks on the OverDrive platform.
On most desktop views, the Featured Books button is on the menu bar along the top of the screen. On smaller screens, you might need to click on the three-dot button to view more options.
We renamed this feature to avoid confusion with our other use of the word “collections” to refer to how we group our books into the General Collection, Reference Collection, HawaiĘ»i-Pacific Collection, ESL Collection, and others.
The Featured Books lists might not include every item in a given category, depending on what processes can or can’t be automated for those particular items.
