[OPLINLIST] NoveList feature: linking directly to/from your library's OPAC

[Mindy Holmes]

My understanding is that when you click on the Novelist link in Polaris 
(say for the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), you should 
be taken to the page in Novelist for that specific book title.  I 
checked a library in Texas that did have the function up and working 
properly as of Monday, and their PAC now goes to the Novelist homepage 
as well.  I know that Novelist was down part of yesterday for upgrades 
to the site, so perhaps something has happened on the EBSCO end of things.

I am attempting to work this out with EBSCO for our catalog, but so far 
come up with the Novelist home page as well.  It took me several e-mails 
to procure a username/password, but so far this does not work as I think 
it should.  Also, the custom link back to our catalog does not work as 
it should.  I hope to get it ironed out as I think it is a nice 
additional feature.

Mindy Holmes
Mason Public Library
200 Reading Road
Mason, OH 45040
holmesme at oplin.org



Owen Leonard wrote:
>> Did you know that you can link your catalog directly to the EBSCO NoveList database?  You can see this feature in action by searching, for example, Harry Potter in the Clark County Public Library catalog (http://catalog.ccpl.lib.oh.us/).
>>     
>
> When I follow the Novelist link from Clark County's catalog I get a
> frameset with the Polaris item info on the top, and the Novelist home
> page on the bottom. This seems to happen for any title I try.  I
> assume this isn't the expected behavior?
>
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