Partner Spotlight

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Greenville County Library System - Content DM

Hailey Public Library - Omeka

Browse Categories

Bedford Public Library, GMILCS

Unique Browse Categories:

Library of Things list turned into a Browse Category; using standardized custom covers with library branding
Great variety of genres split out

Benbrook Public Library

Unique Browse Categories:

Binge Boxes
Library of Things
Video Games

Huntsville-Madison County Public Library

Unique Browse Categories:

Hot on Libby - No Holds on Hoopla
Local Authors
Collection Spotlight that rotates seasonally
Local Music

Jackson County Library Services

Unique Browse Categories:

Award Winners
From the Blog
Oregon Battle of the Books
Spanish Language Collections

The Kelley Library, GMILCS

Unique Browse Categories:

Hot Books - featuring trending books from TikTok and NYT Bestsellers
Cool Stuff - Library of Things collection with custom covers

Lebanon Public Libraries

Unique Browse Categories:

Book Lists for different age groups with custom covers

MAIN Library Alliance

Highlighted their Morristown Festival of Books event by uploading images of Adult Fiction, Adult Nonficiton, and Children's Authors attending the event. Then, they created lists for each of the featured authors. When you click on the author's face, it takes you to the corresponding book list!

Salina Public Library

Unique Browse Categories:

Book Discussions
Library of Things - Tabletop Games

Tinley Park Public Library, SWAN Library Services

Unique Browse Categories:

Suggestions by Genre for Adults, Children & Familes, Middle Grade, Teens, and more!

Chat

Ajax Library

Ajax Library uses Live Chat Inc. to add a Chat feature to their Aspen catalog.

Rapid City Public Library

Rapid City Public Library uses Library H3lp to add a Chat feature to their Aspen catalog.

Salina Public Library

Salina uses Olark to add a Chat feature to their Aspen catalog.

Collection Spotlights

Benson Memorial Library, Crawford County Federated Library System

They use a Collection Spotlight for New at the Library items.

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL)

They are using a Tabbed Collection Spotlight with custom style sheet applied.

The Henry Carter Hull Library

They use a Collection Spotlight for Upcoming Events.

NCW Libraries

They are using a Tabbed Collection Spotlight

Content Enrichment

Content Cafe

In this example, the San Luis Obispo Library is getting Published Reviews from Content Cafe.

NoveList Select

In this example, McKinney Public Libraries is getting Similar Titles, Similar Authors and Similar Series information from NoveList Select.

Syndetics Unbound

In this example, Pasco County Library System is getting cover images, recommendations, summaries, reviews, lists, series and author information from Syndetics Unbound.

Custom Code - CSS

Capital Area District Libraries

Customizations Include:

Buttons
System Messages
Header and Footer

Darien Library

Customizations Include:

Rainbow Links
Shadow-box covers
Updated Images in the Explore More Box

Knox County Public Library

Customizations Include:

Header Menus
Multi-Colored Browse Categories
Uploaded Group Work Format Icons

Westchester Library System, Harrison Public Library

Customizations Include:

Embedded Links in Header
Full Screen Search Results

WVLS, Marathon County Public Library

Customizations Include:

Header Menus
Page Take Up Full Screen
Resized Search Bar

Custom Default Covers

Learn More about custom covers

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative

Round Rock Public Library

EBSCO

EBSCO EDS

Acorn Public Library, SWAN Library Services

EBSCOhost

Grapevine Public Library

Events

Boynton Beach City Library, SEFLIN

They are using SpringShare's LibCal Integration.

There is also an auto-generated Calendar they have linked a the top of their catalog. See the Calendar here.

Cuyahoga County Public Library

They are using Communico's Attend Integration.

Uintah County Library

They are using Library Market's Calendar.

There is also an auto-generated Calendar they have linked a the top of their catalog. See the Calendar here.

Format Icons

Learn more about custom format icons

Cuyahoga County Public Library

Knox County Public Library

Manchester City Library, GMILCS

History and Genealogy

Chattanooga Public Library

Local History and Obituary Index from Omeka

County of San Luis Obispo

County of San Luis Obispo (SLO) uses an OAI-PMH History and Archives link to directly pull in their Luna Digital Collections database into Aspen search results.

McKinney Public Library

McKinney Public Libraries built a custom page built within Aspen's Web Builder to curate their Genealogy collections. They link to the page along the top of their catalog.

Uintah County Library

Uintah County Library is a treasure trove for great genealogy, history, and archives examples.

They use Aspen's Genealogy module to capture over 13,000 records!

They have archives pulled into the Aspen catalog, a Local History menu section along the top of the catalog, custom pages dedicated to local history and they have even scanned in scrapbooks and yearbooks into Aspen.

Lists

Darien Library

Darien Library divides up their lists by Adults, Kids, Teens, and The New York Times.

Many of their lists have custom covers.

They also have some lists with staff reviews highlighted.

Duchesne County Library System

Duchesne County Library System has great lists on a variety of unique topics!

Jackson County Library Services

Jackson County Library Services have amazing lists, including some fantastic music playlists!

Placards

Arlington Public Library

Arlington Public Library uses placards to promote Read-Alike lists for popular titles.

Carnegie-Stout Public Library

Carnegie-Stout Public Library uses placards to promote databases.

The Henry Carter Hull Library

The Henry Carter Hull Library uses placards to promote programs.

McKinney Public Library System - Kids' Catalog

McKinney used their Kids' Catalog and placards for an Easter-themed scavenger hunt. Certain keywords would unlock a moving Easter bunny gif.

St. Johns County Public System

SJCPLS has a number of different placards, especially for their databases and library of things. Search their catalog for terms like health, criminal, business, harry potter, chess, birds and farming.

Washoe County Library System

Menu Links

The City of Burleson, MetroShare Libraries

The City of Burleson not only has clever and fun browse categories but they also have great Research and Activities menus full of great links!

Essex Free Library, VOKAL

Essex Free Library uses menu links in Aspen to promote their wide variety of services and digital resources.

Niche Academy

Grapevine Public Library

Grapevine is using a JavaScript snippet to embed Niche Academy right within the Aspen interface.

Other libraries might opt to use a Menu Link to promote Niche Academy.

Check out some great Aspen tutorial videos made in Niche Academy:

Side Loads

City of Arcadia Library

The City of Arcadia Library has many side loads, including Kanopy, PressReader, Gale Group, Creativebug, and their own government document and special collections.

Nashville Public Library

Nashville Public Library has many side loads, including Kanopy, Comics Plus, BookFlix Books and Movies, LinkedIn Learning, Project Gutenberg, Unglue It, Odilo, and Peterson's Test Center.

Stack Maps

With the StackMap integration a Map It button will appear on available/in library items. When clicked on, a map and directional modal will pop up.

City of Mountain View Public Library

Darien Library

Flagstaff Public Library

Staff Directory

Okaloosa County Public Library

Orem Library

System Messages

Learn More About System Messages Here

City of Mountain View Public Library

System Messages are a great way to advertise planned or unexpected outages.

Nashville Public Library

System Messages are a great way to advertise closures of branches or closures for holidays.

Pascoag Public Library, Ocean State Libraries

When Ocean State Libraries launched their Aspen catalogs, each library system had an Ocean State Libraries system message at the top welcoming users to the new catalog and linking out to FAQs