PrairieCat

PrairieCat maintains an online consortium catalog for its members. The catalog lists more than one million titles of books, periodicals, cassettes, videos, CDs, DVDs, electronic resources and other library materials. The catalog shows which libraries own a given title and if the item is currently on the shelf. Through the catalog, patrons of fully... participating libraries can manage their own accounts, place holds, track their reading history, and pay fines with a credit card. There are three levels of membership in PrairieCat: Fully Participating members have the option of using the full suite of products that PrairieCat offers. Fully participating members perform all of their circulation transactions on PrairieCat. Their patrons are eligible to use patron-initiated systemwide holds. Basic Online members are fully circulating members but have limited use of the suite of products that PrairieCat offers. Their patrons are eligible to use patrion-initiated systemwide holds. Union List members have their holdings in the PrairieCat database, and share their resources with other PrairieCat libraries. Union List libraries use staff-initiated holds to request materials for their users from other PrairieCat libraries. PrairieCat uses Innovative Interface's Sierra and Encore products.Read More