Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN

Get widgets and apps

You can use mobile features and widgets (such as search boxes) for some of our online databases.

Catalog

BookMyne is an iPhone app that allows users to easily find your nearest library location, search the library’s catalog, place holds, and renew currently checked out items. You'll need your library card number and PIN to access your personal account information and place holds using the BookMyne app.

The BookMyne app for Android is still pretty buggy, and we can't recommend it yet.

Music Online

You can send an audio track, album, or playlist from the streaming collections to your mobile device to listen to later. The item that you send stays on your device for 48 hours.

At this time, this functionality is supported on Android and iPhone (3G or better).

Also, there are free biweekly downloads on Music Online. For more information, visit the Music Online Help page.

Novelist Plus Mobile site

This isn't an app or a widget, but it is a mobile version of the Novelist database which supplies reading recommendations. For example, enter a book you've enjoyed and get recommendations of similar books. Scan this QR code and go to the URL, and set a bookmark. Then login with your library card. You can add the bookmark to your home screen if you wish.

Gale databases

You can get widgets for the Gale databases here and put them on your personalized web page, such as iGoogle. You'll need our library identification code, which is tel_p_knoxcpl.

You can also get iPhone and Android apps for the Gale databases.

WorldCat

Two free iPhone apps, pic2shop and Book Bazaar, work through our WorldCat subscription and are downloadable through Apple’s iTunes App Store. For Android, there's a BookMinder app.

There's also a mobile website, a Google Gadget and a Facebook app for WorldCat.

Quick Search Bar engines

You can add these search engine plugins (called "search providers" in Internet Explorer) on your browser's Quick Search box:

• Our library catalog
• Oxford English Dictionary
• WorldCat

 

Brown Bag, Green Book #10: Power Trip

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About Harvey Abouelata

Harvey Abouelata is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Efficient Energy of Tennessee. In this position, he oversees sales, product development and marketing of Residential and Commercial products and services for EETN, including solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technology, energy audits and HERS ratings, weatherization, power factor correction, renewable energy education through webinars and seminars and energy grant writing. He holds a Bachelor's of Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Going mobile with streaming music

Music Online now offers "Send-to-Mobile" functionality in the streaming music collections. You can send an audio track, album, or playlist from the streaming collections to your mobile device to listen to later. The item that you send stays on your device for 48 hours.

Go into any of the Music Listening Resources and look for a cell phone icon ("Send-to-Mobile") next to each track, album, or playlist. Wherever you see that icon you can click it and obtain a “shortlink” to send and enable playback on your mobile device.

There are several ways to send this link:

• The system can send a text message to your mobile or email the link to your email address, which you can pick up on your mobile.
• You can enter the link URL manually into your mobile's web browser.
• On supported devices you can scan a QR-Code directly from your computer screen. You will need to download a QR-Code reader application to do so.

At this time, this functionality is supported on:

• Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
• Mobile Device with Android OS

Shortlinks cannot be accessed outside of the library after 48 hours but will still be usable within it.

For more information please visit the Music Online Help page, and let us know what you think.