Introducing Syndetics Unbound

Syndetics Unbound

Syndetics Unbound combines the best of two enrichment platforms you know and love—Syndetic Solutions and LibraryThing for Libraries.
Make your library catalog better with enrichments that provide rich information about each item, as well as jumping-off points for exploring and discovering new items.
It includes sixteen distinct enrichment elements as well as Book Display Widgets, in a complete and unified solution. Read about each element here.
Syndetics Unbound is a complete and unified solution, not a menu of options spread across one or even multiple vendors, and it's designed to look good out of the box.
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LibraryThing for Libraries (LTFL) is a system of OPAC enhancements, designed to make your catalog more engaging and informative.
Give your patrons exciting new content, including: Ratings and reviews, Tags, Similar Books, Series, Awards, Shelf Browse, Stack Map, Other Editions, and Lexile Measures. Pick and choose which enhancement packages you'd like.
Browse, search and discover your library's holdings in a new, powerful, and engaging way.
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Printable handout (Public) | Printable handout (Academic)

Show off your library's collection with eye-catching Book Display Widgets.
Fill with any sort of book data—popular items in your library, an award, New York Times bestsellers, and more.
Put them anywhere on your library's home page, blog or catalog. Click a book to see it in the catalog.
Includes many attractive preset types. See our Showcase page
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Printable handout (Public) | Printable handout (Academic)

Syndetics Unbound combines the best of LibraryThing for Libraries and Syndetic Solutions to make a catalog enrichment product that provides rich, detailed information about each item as well as jumping-off points for exploring the catalog.
It includes 16 distinct enrichment elements as well as Book Display Widgets in a complete and unified solution. Read about each element here.
It's a complete and unified solution, not a menu of options spread across one or even multiple vendors, and it's designed to look good out of the box.
A powerful administrative portal lets you anonymously track usage and optimize Syndetics Unbound for your library.
Try it yourself at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library.
Read more about how LibraryThing worked with ProQuest to create Syndetics Unbound on the LibraryThing blog.
Learn more on the Syndetics Unbound website.

Similar books. Offer reader's advisory on the spot. Show high-quality "recommended" or "similar" books that can be found at your library—end dead-end searches! Recommendations cover more than 8 million ISBNs. Similar books comes with optional sections for "More by this author," "Similar authors" and "Recommendations from readers."
Tag browsing. Enhance your catalog with the power and flexibility of searching and browsing your books by tags. LTFL's 129 million tags are hand-vetted by our librarians for quality — "American history" and "steampunk" are in, "read this summer" is out!
Other editions and translations. Link related editions and translations of the same work."FRBR"-ize your catalog with a few lines of HTML. Includes all paper, audio, ebook and translations available from your library.
Try it yourself at Spokane County District Library.

Shelf Browse uses your call numbers and ties them with cover images to give your patrons the context and serendipity of browsing a physical shelf.
Includes a mini shelf-browser that sits on your detail pages, and a full-screen version, launched from the detail page.
Use collections to limit Shelf Browse to a certain collection—YA books, AV, etc.
If a book doesn't have a cover, we provide a default one, with the title and author printed over it.
Works with all shelf-ordering systems.
Try it yourself at the Gettysburg College Library.

Series. Tap into over 50,000 series added by LibraryThing members and approved by staff—the most comprehensive and lovingly-maintained series coverage available. LTFL provides a short description of the series and any related series (for example, The Chronicles of Narnia in both chronological order and in publication order).
Awards and honors. Includes over 25,000 different awards and honors, from the National Book Award and the Booker Prize to the Salon Book Award and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, or even Oprah's Book Club selections. Spotlight awards that you'd like to highlight in your catalog.
Try it yourself at Libraries Tasmania

Stack Map directs your patrons to exactly where an item is held in your collection, with attractive, customizable maps.
Stack Map adds a link (with an icon if you choose) to the call numbers in your catalog that opens a dynamic stack map with directions to that particular item.
Each stack map also includes a QR code which a patron can scan to immediately pull up that map on their mobile phone, to help them get there.
Try it yourself at Brigham Young University Idaho Library.

Book Display Widgets let you create virtual book displays for your library's homepage. Show off your library’s collection with eye-catching display widgets.
Put them anywhere—on your library’s home page, LibGuides, blog, or catalog.
Feature your widgets on your library’s Facebook page, with a dedicated, interactive tab.
Fill with popular titles, new titles, DVDs, journals, series, awards or tags—it updates on its own. Or create your own list from a web page, RSS feed or list of ISBNs, UPCs, or ISSNs.
Includes many attractive preset types, including animated carousels, bookshelves, grids and more; fully customizable with CSS.
Create one widget or several. Track and report views and clicks.
Use in mobile-responsive sites.
Easily create images of widgets to use on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and email newsletters.
Links directly to your catalog pages.
See a sampling of Book Display Widgets on our Showcase Page | Get the handout | Watch a screencast

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