We track your patron’s favorite authors for them and provide an automated way of connecting patrons with their library – No installation, no training – See below for how this works.
AuthorCheck tracks your patrons’ favorite authors and alerts them when a new book arrives at your library. It does this by creating a mirror image of your collection and monitoring any changes. As complicated as that is, it requires no staff time and no software installation. Simply place a small piece of code on your website, and instantly your patrons can access a database of 70,000 popular authors. With a click of their mouse they can add an author to their alert list.
Connect patrons directly to their favorite authors through the library and its catalog using Author Check. Through a little widget seamlessly embedded into your libraries website your patrons will be able to setup their own library specific author alerts.
Author Check is completely automated – no software installation or staff time required. Jut paste a widget on your website to get started today! Your patrons will stay on your website while browsing for their favorite authors and setting up individual alerts for new books arriving at your library. Author Check’s alert service offers two amazing plugins for your website, allowing your patrons to sign up for author alerts conveniently from your own website. Using state of the art technology our entire author database matches your public library’s records.
Author Check’s alert service includes a revolutionary author database. Your Author Check account provides you with a link to a magazine styled author database highlighting all of your authors and books as they are added to the public library. Thus, the service never gets boring or outdated. Now that’s smart!
When in-depth biography data, pictures & your library’s latest acquisitions are meshed together your patrons will discover their library from an entirely new side. Utilize the hidden power of your existing holdings which we convert into an attractive and modern author database that continues to evolve! Across our products we strive to deliver latest web technology to libraries – to help them save on their budgets and focus on what is really important, while empowering patrons to achieve new insights from existing resources. At the same time our products constantly develop to maximize the use of library information and having fun in the process. We are looking forward to working for you.
Besides widgets to include on your own website allowing patrons to subscribe to their favorite authors, Author check comes with an extensive author database. A smart author database highlighting only authors and books you actually own.
“No broken links, no patron frustration. A georgous way of presenting a library’s holdings by means of presenting authors and their biography data, directly linked into your OPAC.”
Latest arrivals will trigger their authors to be featured on a “what’s hot” list and a magazine-style, state of the art website makes exploring your library even more attractive for your patrons, increasing the usage by presenting your existing information in a new entertaining and user-friendly way.
There are a number of ways you can contact us.
You can call us at 941-373-0700 or send us an email at info@dearreader.com. Thank you for your interest!