Syndetic Solutions™ Adds Facebook Access

"Providing patrons seamless access to local library catalogs directly through Facebook is a new opportunity for libraries to stay connected to their patron base," said Sharon Lubrano, ProQuest Vice-President. "We're excited about enabling libraries to add another gateway to the catalog, build engagement around titles and continually remind patrons to come to the library first."

With the new Syndetic Solutions Facebook app, library users search holdings by simply clicking on the ‘Search the Catalog' call-out button on the library's Facebook page. The topic or keyword searched will return title, author, and ISBN, as well as all of the enriched elements to which the library subscribes -- Summaries, Tables of Contents, First Chapters, Author Notes, Cover Images, and more -- for all relevant titles in the collection. When the user finds a title they want, the app offers the option of linking to the library's OPAC and placing a hold. Users can also "like" a title (which is then displayed on the user's own Facebook page), allowing users to share their new favorite reads with friends and build interest in a broad selection of catalog titles.

Libraries who subscribe to Syndetic Solutions can find all the instructions on how to set up the Facebook App here.

About Syndetic Solutions

Syndetic Solutions^TM is one the most popular ways libraries around the world are providing their users with a modern discovery experience. Syndetic Solutions^TM offers more than 40 million unique descriptive data components, powered by Bowker® Books In Print, with content for books, CDs and DVDs that makes OPACs and discovery layers richer, more informative and far more useful for library users. With content added weekly - totaling more than 100,000 new titles each year - the flexible and customizable Syndetics keeps pace with rapid collection evolution.

About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)

ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company's products are a gateway to the world's knowledge including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections and ebooks. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create and manage information.

The company's cloud-based technologies offer flexible solutions for librarians, students and researchers through the ProQuest^®, Bowker^®, Dialog^®, ebrary^®, EBL^® and Serials Solutions^® businesses - and notable research tools such as the Summon^® discovery service, the RefWorks^® Flow^TM collaboration platform, the Pivot^TM research development tool and the Intota^TM library services platform. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.