Iguana Library 4+
Infor Libraries Division
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Use the app to search for and reserve items in your library’s collection. With a book in hand you can scan the ISBN barcode and check whether your library has a copy. You can reserve materials and renew your loans. Besides that, the app supplies information on addresses and opening hours of all branches and you can phone or email them directly. Please note this app does not support all libraries. Check the website of your local library to see if the app supports it, if not, ask if it can be added.
Functionality at a glance:
- All kinds of search options
- Search results sorted by title, author or year
- Search for items by scanning an ISBN barcode
- Reserve any items found
- Cancellation of reservations
- Renewal of items on loan
- Maintain a wish list of books to be read
- Overview of payments due
- Receive push notifications for loans nearing expiry, reservations ready for pick (if these services are offered by your library)
- Granted their permission, integrated access to other user’s data
- Summary of all branches of a library, with, for each branch, the opening hours and address details (Optionally displayed in Google Maps)
- Making phone calls to a branch from the app
- Sending emails to a branch from the app
- Visiting the library’s website
What’s New
Version 3.8.7
Bug fixes and small improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Disappointed
Nice to have an app to access my local library’s website but disappointed that it adds so little to the base functionality of the site itself. In fact the app requires more clicks that the website to get all the info I want. It also displays lists of libraries that have books I want to reserve but this is irrelevant to online reservations since I have no control over where the books come from. It might be useful to know that the library I use has it on the shelf but not that one on the other side of the county has it. Just annoying.
Needs work
This app was recommended for use by the library, I’m struggling to understand why.... A total waste of time.
1) No instructions of how to log on. Trial and error found that the User ID is your email address. (All I got from the county library when I joined online during lockdown was a compliment slip and a library card via the post).
2) To try and understand the point of the app a search of random authors names produced error messages for some authors, even though spelt correctly, I know my local library stocks their books, so why doesn’t it find all books?
3) No explaination of what the errors mean?
4) You only appear to be able to loan physical books from this app? So need other apps for other media available in the library. You used to be able to loan all these things from the library?
Basically the app needs some instructions of how to use it, if the library is expecting users to manage their loans from it and recommending its use.
From my point of view it just seems to provide addresses of county libraries and refers you to the libraries website. I can do that already without an app on my device.
Would I recommend NO!
Good idea but fails to deliver
The app is a good idea - love being able to renew books as well as ordering them.
However I would have rated it higher if the push notifications actually worked - have had books go overdue for this very reason.
App Privacy
The developer, Infor Libraries Division, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Infor Veenendaal BV
- Size
- 41 MB
- Category
- Shopping
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 Infor
- Price
- Free