AquaBrowser with My Discoveries
Discovery Layer
The world's leading discovery layer provides the most compelling patron experience
AquaBrowser with My Discoveries
My Discoveries enhances the discovery experience and encourages repeat usage of the library
As the Web has been transformed from a static information source into a platform for interaction and communication, users have come to expect the same features from library search services. AquaBrowser with My Discoveries invites users to interact with the library’s content through familiar features such as ratings, reviews, tags, and lists. And, because users can search, discover, and refine by tags from all users, My Discoveries greatly enhances visibility and discoverability of library resources.
My Discoveries provides powerful personalization features that enable users to create lists and organize materials. With My Discoveries users can share their lists publicly so other users can find them just like any other library resource. The possibilities are endless: users can share lists of hand-picked items about their subjects, and librarians can construct lists to recommend resources or highlight underused materials. Professors, too, can easily create reading lists for their students.
LibraryThing® online community jumpstarts the AquaBrowser social experience
My Discoveries not only connects users across a library or institution, it also connects users globally via the Web—a requirement for the success of any social networking tool. My Discoveries can equip users with the richest social library content in the world—more than 50 million tags and 6 million ratings for almost 41 million books from the LibraryThing® online community. Tags from LibraryThing provide the critical mass to jumpstart the social library experience at your library and My Discoveries tags can be shared with all other AquaBrowser libraries so users can benefit from one another’s experiences. Sharing behaviors and other features are easily controlled using the AquaBrowser administrative control panel.