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Mountain View library unveils Vega Discover catalog; staff outline services, digital subscriptions and equipment plans
Summary
At a June 16 special meeting, Adult Services Librarian Charles Mosner briefed the Board of Library Trustees on a year of service updates, the launch of the Vega Discover catalog and upcoming projects including wireless printing and a materials-handling system replacement.
At a June 16 special meeting of the Board of Library Trustees, Charles Mosner, adult services librarian in the library’s Customer Experience and Technology (CXT) division, presented a year-end update that highlighted a new public catalog, expanded digital subscriptions and plans for equipment and facility upgrades.
Mosner said the library this year launched Vega Discover, a new public catalog that “is mobile responsive, meaning, the experience using VEGA on a mobile device, phone or tablet is gonna be just as good as on a computer.” He described features intended to improve discovery for users, including format roll-ups (grouping all formats of a title on one line), saved searches and the ability to translate the interface into Spanish and Chinese.
The catalog launch is one of several service changes Mosner outlined. The library added a PressReader subscription in February that provides access to more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines in many languages, a change…
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