UT Tyler Library Enhances Online Catalog

May 7, 2001

The Robert R. Muntz Library at The University of Texas at Tyler is enhancing its online catalog to include netLibrary titles, Jeanne Pyle, library director, announced.

The netLibrary offers students, faculty and staff in The University of Texas System electronic access to reference, scholarly and professional books. The UT Tyler library has access to more than 20,000 netLibrary titles, selected by librarians throughout the UT System. The netLibrary allows users to electronically browse, check out and download books while providing publishers copyright protection safeguards. The books are searchable, and users can copy and paste or print selected passages of up to 5,000 characters.

UT Tyler users can access the netLibrary from the library's Web page at the university's Web site (www.uttyler.edu). With the enhancement, the library's online general catalog also will indicate what is available in the netLibrary. "We want the library's catalog to reflect what we have access to, whether it's a print book or magazine or digital book or magazine,'' said Pyle. "We have purchased digital records so that users can find netLibrary titles in our catalog. They can click and go straight to a netLibrary title.''

The library has added records for 5,000 netLibrary titles to the catalog since March and anticipates adding at least two more loads of approximately 5,000 records each, Pyle said.

Students, faculty and staff should be able to access the netLibrary from any computer on campus. To access the program off campus, they must first access it on campus and establish an account. The netLibrary guides the user through a step-by-step process to establish the account.

The UT System gained access to the netLibrary last year through Academic Library Collection Enhancement funds acquired by UT Austin. The netLibrary also includes titles made available through TexShare, a statewide program funded by the Texas Legislature and administered by the Texas State Library.