Recommended Reads: Novelist settings
The reading recommendations integration with Novelist Select is a separate subscription. Please contact your Account Executive for more information. Bibliotheca Support will work with the Novelist team to install and configure this service. Novelist will provide Bibliotheca the profile and password information for System Manager
For more information, please see the module Receipts>Reading Recommendations in this course and the quickConnect > Reading Recommendations module in the quickConnect for selfChecks course
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Novelist Select Reading Recommendations
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OCLC cloudLibrary reading recommendations
OCLC cloudLibrary ebook and eaudiobook services can provide reading recommendations to your patrons. Your patrons can download ebooks or eaudiobooks directly from the selfCheck to the cloudLibrary app. This is a separate subscription. Please see your Bibliotheca Account Executive for more information.
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If you would like for your patrons to print reading recommendations receipts or email the information to themselves, toggle the options on. Make sure that you have set up your email server settings in Network > SMTP Server. You can also add reading recommendations to a check-in/check-out receipt. Please see the module Receipts>Recommended Reads for more information.
Use the test button to test your shelf. It will display the covers, titles, and authors of the items on your recommendations shelf. Have a question about a shelf's content? Contact cloudLibrary.
Creating shelves
You will work with the cloudLibrary team to create shelves of content. Here are some example shelves. Each selfCheck can point to a different shelf and titles based on those categories will be recommended as your patrons check items out or in.
Check with Novelist to find out how titles are recommended.Only titles that are in your library's catalog will be recommended to your patrons.
This specifies whether bib-level or item-level holds will be used.
Hold Item Identification Type
This specifies which copies are selected to fill the hold (e.g. a single copy only, first available in the system or first available at a specific branch)
Hold Type
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Recommended Reads: Novelist settings
The reading recommendations integration with Novelist Select is a separate subscription. Please contact your Account Executive for more information. Bibliotheca Support will work with the Novelist team to install and configure this service. Novelist will provide Bibliotheca the profile and password information for System Manager
For more information, please see the module Receipts>Reading Recommendations in this course and the quickConnect > Reading Recommendations module in the quickConnect for selfChecks course
© 2025 Bibliotheca. Confidential. All rights reserved.
Novelist Select Reading Recommendations
© 2025 Bibliotheca. Confidential. All rights reserved.
OCLC cloudLibrary reading recommendations
OCLC cloudLibrary ebook and eaudiobook services can provide reading recommendations to your patrons. Your patrons can download ebooks or eaudiobooks directly from the selfCheck to the cloudLibrary app. This is a separate subscription. Please see your Bibliotheca Account Executive for more information.
© 2025 Bibliotheca. Confidential. All rights reserved.
cloudLibrary reading recommendations
Back to start
© 2025 Bibliotheca. Confidential. All rights reserved.
If you would like for your patrons to print reading recommendations receipts or email the information to themselves, toggle the options on. Make sure that you have set up your email server settings in Network > SMTP Server. You can also add reading recommendations to a check-in/check-out receipt. Please see the module Receipts>Recommended Reads for more information.
Use the test button to test your shelf. It will display the covers, titles, and authors of the items on your recommendations shelf. Have a question about a shelf's content? Contact cloudLibrary.
Creating shelves
You will work with the cloudLibrary team to create shelves of content. Here are some example shelves. Each selfCheck can point to a different shelf and titles based on those categories will be recommended as your patrons check items out or in.
Check with Novelist to find out how titles are recommended.Only titles that are in your library's catalog will be recommended to your patrons.
This specifies whether bib-level or item-level holds will be used.
Hold Item Identification Type
This specifies which copies are selected to fill the hold (e.g. a single copy only, first available in the system or first available at a specific branch)
Hold Type