East Central Regional Library
Books
Free
The East Central Regional Library app allows you to explore your library on the go to find new books, movies, games, kits, and more- or rediscover your old favorites with ease! Quickly search the entire catalog, including eContent, and place holds, check due dates, and renew eligible items. You can even access a digital version of your library card to make self-checkout at your favorite ECRL branch location even easier.
more Quarterly bug fix release
25.12.00 Jan 28
Bug fixes
25.09.00 10/29/2025
Bugfixes related to placing holds, adding to lists, pickup location, and notification preferences
25.08.01 09/16/2025
Remember last used card number after initial login
Search reading history
25.08.00 08/27/2025
Performance updates and bug fixes
Increase font size of text under barcode
Scan & Go updates
25.06.00 07/24/2025
Display fixes
Hold Button freeze fix
Self registration button fix
25.04.00 05/01/2025
Performance improvements
Duplicate hold notification
Add search box to the top of all search pages
25.03.00 03/26/2025
When a library has multiple sublocations that are valid as pickup areas, allow the user to change the pickup area when changing the pickup location.
When displaying a list of items to place a hold on, include item location and status to match the display within Aspen.
Respect sort order for facets (Alphabetic or By Number of Results) when showing facet values within Aspen LiDA.
25.02.00 02/26/2025
Volume will now show in holds
Out of Hold group message will now show in holds
Local ILL requests now allow for the placing of requests on individual volumes of a record
25.01.00 01/31/2025
- Fixed a bug causing some users to occasionally be booted from an active session due to an erroneous API return that the user's credentials were invalid
- Update the record page to add a Request button for records needing Local ILL requests. (DIS-34)
- Update the holds process to use the Local ILL process when configured. (DIS-34)
- If enabled, add a link in the Account Drawer to open up the user's Year In Review
24.12.00 12/19/2024
Add support for self-registration
24.11.00 11/20/2024
- Added sorting options, including by library account, to Checked Out Titles screen.
24.10.00 10/16/2024
- Fixed a bug where when selecting radio button values in Facets (i.e. Search Within), it would display a different value as being selected.
- Added prompts for providing an alternate library card while placing a hold or checking out cloudLibrary items.
- Added a screen to modify or remove alternative library card information, if enabled for the library. This screen is accessible in both the Account Drawer and on the Card screens.
- When freezing a hold, fixed a bug where the date picker actions when selecting the thaw date were not using translated values.
24.09.00 09/18/2024
- Fixed sorting and pagination for Reading History screen.
- Fixed a bug where some devices were scanning incorrect barcode values.
- Fixed filtering by source for Checked Out Titles screen.
- When navigating back to Notification Permissions screen from your device settings, the screen will re-render and display the updated options.
- Fixed sorting on Titles of Hold screen where in some cases the data went out of sync, and it will now re-render.
24.08.00 08/14/2024
- Grouped Work screen has a slight redesign to accommodate for longer button text.
- Updating the language will change the selected option in both the Account drawer and Preferences screen.
- Always display a back button when accessing the Manage Browse Categories screen.
- You can now view instructions for accessing their Palace Project checkouts.
- General bug fixes.
24.07.00 07/17/2024
Fixes & Improvements
- Libby holds ready for checkout, can now be checked out from the Holds screen.
- Back button has returned for all devices.
- Access Online button will now again open online content.
- Language switching is available again.
- Checked out Libby titles will open online content again.
- Privacy Policy menu link has been fixed.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.
24.06.00 06/26/2024
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- You can now preview applicable eContent from a Grouped Work
- You can now cancel applicable eContent holds
- You can again remove linked accounts
- Hiding/Showing Browse Categories will properly reload the Discover screen
- Checkouts and Holds can now again be sorted
- Renaming a list will now reload My Lists screen to reflect the changes
- General UI cleanup for dark mode
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements
24.05.00 05/16/2024
New Features
- Added a Device Permissions Dashboard screen to the More > Preferences screen
- Added support for checking if the library catalog is Offline
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Facets are now correctly applied to searches again
- Cover images on the Holds screen will now load the correct images
- Select menus when placing a hold are now again able to be opened and scrollable
- Library links on the More screen will now all properly open
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements
24.04.00 04/17/2024
- Fixed a bug that could crash the app when searching the catalog
24.03.01 03/27/2024
- Fixed a bug where closing the notification onboard prompt too early would cause it to re-prompt.
- Fixed an issue where libraries were unable to renew checked out items.
- Events now load into Browse Categories on the Home screen.
- Users can now use Palace Project items if their library offers that service.
- General UI enhancements for tablet users throughout the app.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.
24.03.00 03/27/2024
New Features & Improvements
- If setup by the library, you can now search for Events and manage Saved Events
- If applicable, you can now view other branches other than the one you're logged into
Bug Fixes
- Updated Dark Mode styling in various places
- Creating a list from a record will now refresh your lists immediately
- Cover images for holds and checkouts are now specific to the source
- On the Notifications Screen, "Enable All" will now properly set the individual toggles
- Fixed a bug where the app would crash on some devices when opening a browser window
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements
24.02.00 02/14/2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the Map on the Location screen causing crashes for certain devices.
24.01.01 01/18/2024
New Features & Improvements
- The Library Contact screen has a new look to make it more useful to users.
- The More screen has a new look and now supports custom menu links from Discovery.
- Added support for resetting passwords with Symphony libraries.
- We will now store whether we should re-prompt a user for Screen Brightness permissions when viewing the Library Card screen.
- When selecting a library at login, all apps will now consider the distance from the users location (if provided).
- In the Account Drawer, users will now see 'Fines' as an option, which will open up the Fines page in Aspen Discovery.
- General cleanup on the UI for dark mode, text truncating, and image caching.
Bug Fixes
- If a user has a preferred pickup location, it will now again be selected by default when placing a hold. If a preferred location has not been set, it will consider the user's home location instead.
- If there is only one pickup location available it will be automatically selected and disregard user preferences.
- When enabling Reading History, the 'cancel' button will now properly have a label.
- Fixed an issue where self-check custom barcode styles were not properly registering and preventing successful scanning.
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Notification onboarding prompt to re-prompt a user after they already interacted with it.
- The individual notification preferences will now update more reliably.
- In the background, we will periodically check if the Aspen Discovery session is still valid, and renew it if not.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements
24.01.00 01/17/2024
- Loading the app should be a little bit quicker now
- You can now disable/enable account linking on the Linked Accounts screen
- The Linked Accounts screen UI will now reflect if you have disabled or do not have permissions to perform account linking
- Fixed a bug where the Self Check Scanner would sometimes crash the app
- Fixed a bug where sometimes tapping on a browse category would result in a white screen
23.12.00 12/20/2023
New Features
- When searching, you can now choose how you want to limit what library or location to limit your results to; this is labeled as "Search Within" in the Filters screen and toolbar
Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the Place Hold modal would appear to not complete
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements
23.11.00 11/15/2023
Quarterly bug fix release
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