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Using ChiliPAC 

Welcome to your library’s catalog with the exciting ChiliPAC! ChiliPAC features over 35,000 public booklists created by library staff and patrons worldwide. Discover what others are recommending and reading! Users can browse, search, and reuse lists easily.

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Enhance your catalog experience with platform engagement through ChiliPAC. Get more and explore everything related to it, while also seeing what others are reading, saying, and sharing, connected to your search. It’s a great way to keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what you plan to read. Bookshelves are meant for private reading tracking, or you can choose to share them publicly.

ChilliPAC allows you to create your own reviews, check ratings, and see what others think before placing a hold on an item. You can also search for, create, organize, and share your booklists, as well as, find lists curated by librarians. Get social! Patrons can follow items and other users.

Bookshelves

So many books, so little time! Create a bookshelf in our account instead of placing holds.

We recommend that patrons create Bookshelves to track items of interest through their profiles. You can categorize items as Completed, In Progress, or For Later. Save your picks, public or private, and share them through a custom link.

To add an item to your bookshelf, search the catalog and click on the Add to Bookshelf button, where you can select from three different categories. Items in your bookshelf can be updated later by selecting the Profile tab from the top of the screen.

Sharing of booklists

With ChiliPAC, you can create and share booklists while maintaining control over your privacy. When a user creates a booklist, they choose whether it is public (which appears in library search results and on their profile), private (visible only to people they have shared the booklist URL with), or draft (accessible only to them). Any ChiliPAC user can create as many booklists as they need for various purposes. Library staff can access your lists if you need assistance. 

Create booklists for multiple purposes, such as by genres, hobby lists, cookbooks, or best reads, to share with friends.

Social Media Connection

Social media sharing is also available in the public booklist view. A permanent URL is created for a booklist to share through email, chat, messaging apps, or on social media.

Users can download the booklist as a PDF.

Readers Advisory

Check the catalog for staff-created booklists. Users can gain new insights by searching for a keyword and viewing items that others have bookmarked on the same topic. Filtering options by creation year and scope are available. 

Reuse booklists – click on “Duplicate booklist” to save or edit it.

Questions?

Stop by the reference desk or email info@parklandlibrary.org for more information about ChiliPAC!

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