Brookens website adds new features

November 12, 2008
By Brittney Meyer
Staff Writer

No pen? No pencil? No problem!

Brookens Library has adapted a new technology that can help many users. “Text me this call number” was first introduced to UIS in October and has been increasing popular ever since. The new feature texts the call number,
location, title, and status of book to your cell phone.

Sophomore Amy Hindz has used this feature twice. “I like it because, no matter what my, phone is on me. I don’t always have something to write with, and sometimes I get the numbers and letters confused, so it’s pretty
convenient.”

Many other campuses, like Chicago State and Benedictine University, had this feature available for users at the start of the fall semester. The system currently works with twelve different cell phone carriers.

Another program that Brookens Library will be testing out soon is a book borrowing service that will ship books to one’s home. The service, WorldCat
Direct, will allow the recipient to either send the book back to online vendor Better World Books or to purchase it.

Students are able to access Brookens’ new programs via the library’s website.