The Scottsdale Public Library is working with Innovative Interfaces, Inc. and libraries worldwide to develop encore, a new way of finding Library information.  Whether you are looking for books or DVDs on the shelf, magazine or journal articles online, or information on your favorite websites, you can find it all through encore.  Since encore is still in development, you have the unique opportunity to tell us how we can make it better.  Start using encore by putting something in the box at the right and clicking go.  After you've played with it for awhile, click on the Provide Feedback link on any page to tell us how we can make encore better for you.

Why encore and not Google?

You can find a lot of information through Google and other search engines - librarians use them everyday.  But what you can't find in search engines are library specific resources, like the full text databases of articles that the library subscribes to and items in the library's catalog.  To access this information you used to to have to go to a bunch of different places - the library's online catalog, the website, and other websites - and do separate searches.  Now you can search encore and get results back from all of these sources with just one click of the go button.

What will happen to the library catalog?

Because encore is a product in development we are making it available in addition to the library catalog.  At some point in the future, when encore is ready, doing a search in the "search the catalog box" on our web pages will take you to encore instead of the catalog.  But the traditional catalog will still be available through the "advanced search" link.