Cape library upgrades online catalog

The Cape Girardeau Public Library is using a new circulation system and online catalog with enhanced features that allow patrons to make use of the library from their own computers.

Patrons can check their own accounts, renew items checked out, place holds on library materials and use their e-mail accounts as their preferred mode of notification. Additionally, many of the library's holding records have links to first chapters, summaries or book reviews and other materials on the same subject.

This $90,000 project was made possible in part with a $42,089 grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services administered through the Missouri State Library.

Library director Betty Martin said patrons can check out the new system at capelibrary.org/onlinecatalog.aspx and send comments on the system to her.