Librarian: If your library subscribes to BookBrowse, please log in to see customized URLs for your library. If you're on a library computer, you should be automatically recognized. If not, you can login via the link on your library's website or at bookbrowse.com/library.

Easy to Remember Link to Homepage

All libraries that subscribe to remote patron access are provided with an easy-to-remember "quick link" to BookBrowse's homepage that automatically logs patrons in so they can start browsing immediately.

For example, the main link for our test library is: bookbrowse.com/myt

Linking Direct to Any BookBrowse Page

Librarian: If your library subscribes to BookBrowse, please log in to see customized URLs for your library, that automatically log patrons in so they can start browsing with one click. If you're on a library computer, you should be automatically recognized If not, you can login via the link on your library's website or at bookbrowse.com/library.

Subscribing libraries can link direct to any BookBrowse page so that patrons are automatically logged in just by clicking the link and can start browsing immediately.

If you were viewing this page as a subscribed library, you would see links to all BookBrowse's core pages already formated for your library, with easy to implement examples of how to create a link to any other of our tens of thousands of pages.

Below are three sample links for our test library, "My Town Library," so you can click and see for yourself how they work.

Home page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=

Book club landing page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=bookclubs

A typical book review page:
https://www.bookbrowse.com/libweb?nylip=429438&rel=mag/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/3938

How Login-Free Remote Access Works

The big challenge with electronic resources is getting patrons to use them. So often, the resources are tucked away on an internal page on the library's website, so, the first hurdle is for a user to find the right section. Then, having found an electronic resource of interest, those accessing remotely have to find their library number and log in--before even knowing if the resource is going to meet their needs. And then they have to navigate to whatever content might be of interest without necessarily knowing what is available or where to look.

BookBrowse's proprietary technology automatically logs a user in when they click a specially formated link, so they start browsing immediately. For example, you could link directly to our discussion guide section, so that patrons are able to immediately access our 1700+ discussion guides. Once on BookBrowse, patrons and staff in the library will have complete access to all resources; patrons accessing remotely will be able to browse some pages before being asked to log in with their library card number and, having done so, they are seamlessly redirected back to where they left off, and then have full access.

This technology also enables libraries to embed BookBrowse's apps into their library's pages; for example to search for read-alike suggestions or find recommendations for their book club.

If you are viewing this page from a subscribing library, your library's special "login-free remote access" code has been automatically built in to all the links shown on this page.

Compatibility With Library Authentication Systems

Login-free access does not work with library authentication systems (e.g. EZ Proxy) because they can only send a patron to BookBrowse's homepage. But, in most cases, direct link authentication can be set up in parallel with library authentication--if the library provides BookBrowse with its library card range(s)--so that BookBrowse can authenticate patrons arriving from direct links.