Hi! This is Mrs Gaddis, and I'm here to show you how you can place physical books that
are available in the San Antonito Library on hold. If you've already learned how to
access ebooks or audio books, you'll find that the steps are very similar. So the first thing
you need to do is go to your class link page. So sign in by going to my.aps.edu.
Then enter in your username and your password and click on "sign in".
Once you're on your classlink page, you need to look for the folder titled "APS Libraries"
and click on it. And then you will click on the file that says "Library Catalog."
The catalog page looks different than it has in years past, but we do hope this will make
it simpler and easier for you to access books. So there's a couple ways that you can search for
books. You can in the search bar put in the title of the book, a keyword, or the author's name. You
can scroll down to recently added books and see some of the newer books that are in our library.
You can look for popular titles books that have been checked out
regularly from our library. In both of those you can also check "see all."
Or you can go down to topic tiles and click on one of the tiles that may be of interest to you.
I'm going to look for a graphic novels. So I'm going to click on the graphic novel tile.
This will bring up all the graphic novels that we have available in our library.
As with the audiobooks and ebooks you may look at the green banner at the top
and that will let you know that the book is in the library and available for checkout.
You will also see red banners that tell you that that library book is checked out.
You can still place a hold on a book that is checked out, but just know that it will
take longer for that book to be available to you for checkout. So let's find a book that
we want to check out. I'm going to check out this one called "Unicorn on a Roll ." Again,
there are a couple ways that I can place that book on hold. I can simply click on "hold" in the front
and I will receive notification that a request has been sent to Mrs Gaddis and that book will
be pulled for you to check out. Or maybe I want "Bone," you simply click on the book,
click on "more details," and place the book on hold. Either way will send a
notification to me that you are wanting that book and I need to pull it for you.
You can also, as I said, look at the top, write in at the top, a book that you're interested
in. You can go by author, subject, if you know genre, or keyword from the title. So say I want
a book on dragons. I'm going to type in the word "dragon" or "dragons" and do a search.
Once again, by doing that search, it will pull up all the books that are have a subject of
dragons or there is "dragons" in the title. So say I decide I want this book "Dragon Gets
By." Once again, I can place the book On Hold by simply clicking on "hold,"
or I can click on the book itself, "more details," and then place the book on hold.
I hope this has been helpful and that you're able to check out many wonderful books to enjoy.