Patron driven services are at the forefront of this elegant and easy to use public interface, providing you with new ways to serve your ever evolving population. In today’s world users require a convenient, intuitive experience and CARL•Connect Discovery delivers. Powerful search and relevancy ranking with predictive suggestions and a customized display of results all within a responsive and eye catching design are the foundation. But, that’s just the beginning. You work hard for your community. Your discovery service should, too.
Personalization and Adaptability
The award-winning CARL•Connect Discovery Mobile offers more than convenience. It provides next level personalization and access to your growing ‘on the go’ communities. Geolocation features, E•Commerce capabilities, personalized Reading Recommendations and many other social-local-mobile solutions will drive engagement to your library and services.
Find, Identify, Select and Obtain with FRBR
At its foundation, the CARL•X ILS is developed to dynamically connect same intellectual content and as a result, greatly improves the search and discovery experience for your users.
Expose Your Data with Search Engine Optimization
CARL•Connect Discovery (formerly known as LS2 PAC for CARL) pulls back the data curtain and enhances the browser discovery of your library collections. Bring new visibility to your library and services. Reach your community and generate a whole new audience in ways you didn’t know were possible, directly through the Google search engine.
Provide your younger audience with a catalog of their very own. Included with CARL•Connect Discovery, this app-like interface appeals to the curious, playful and tech-savvy kids.
TLC’s CARL•Connect Discovery Mobile
scored a Gold in the 2017 Modern Library Awards!
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Thank you for creating the space to help us feel like we are heard and for ensuring the various lines of communication are open (and inviting) for the CARL•X customer libraries."- The kinds of communication channels that are available between us as customers — with you, with other customers, with the product owners — that's something that not every vendor is going to be able to do."
[FRBR] just makes it so much easier for patrons to find what they want."- CARL•Connect Discovery is definitely heads and shoulders better than most of the catalogs or discovery layers that come pre-packaged with an ILS."
- The relationship between clients and vendors is critical. The fact that I can reach out and interact with all levels at TLC is, to me, their biggest strength. That relationship is what sets TLC apart."
- It's the interpersonal relationship that I really love. It's the accessibility and flexibility. That really makes the difference for me."
- By having access to APIs, we created an ad hoc Circ client for our Limitless Libraries circulation team, streamlining their workflow."
- CARL customers are a community. And I know that's the corniest quote in the world, but that is part of what you're buying into when you buy into the CARL software."
- TLC has the next-generation ILS: CARL•Connect."
- CARL•X is a solid dependable ILS, it's up all the time. It's solid, dependable. It's there. It works."
- We had power out to multiple of our libraries one day. One branch decided to open anyway, and they used their personal cell phones to get onto CARL•Connect and check out materials to their customers."
- We continue to find that the customer service CARL provides is top-notch. We've been very pleased and continue to be pleased with the responsive customer service we receive."
- Ad hoc Reports has allowed us to do all kinds of nifty workflow efficiency smoothing things, to be able to pull data on demand and do what we need to with it."
- We can tell that TLC cares about libraries. The [communications] illustrate how interested the staff and the company are about each library they serve."
