CountyCat Help

From your CountyCat account you can:

• search the catalog,
• modify your personal contact information,
• view holds and checked out items, and, fines.
• set up or refer to your reading history and more

To login, CLICK HERE and enter the barcode number found on the back of your library card (or your username) and your Personal Identification Number (or PIN).

If you do not have a PIN, enter your barcode number and click the "Submit" button. You will be prompted to enter a new PIN and immediately enter your online account.

If you get a message stating "Sorry, the information you submitted was invalid. Please try again", it means there is a PIN on your record already.

If you have an email address on your account, you can reset your PIN. Click on the "Forget Your PIN?" link and enter your email address to use this feature. If you do not have an email address, contact your local library to reset your PIN.

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SETTING UP A USERNAME to USE IN PLACE OF THE BARCODE:
You may use a unique username instead of your barcode to log into CountyCat or CountyCat Mobile.  To set this up:

• Log into CountyCat on a web browser and go into your library account.
• Click the Modify Personal Information link or Edit Account button.
• Fill in the field for "Username" and click Submit to save your changes. You may also speak to a librarian who can help you enter this information.

NOTE: If you make use of a username, it will appear on the paper slips used to designate materials ready for pickup at most libraries.

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After you enter in your search terms in CountyCat, use the facets (or limiters) on the left hand side of the screen under Refine by to narrow a broad topic to the specific item you desire. The checkboxes let you:

• Availability--Limit results to those at the library (for checkout or on the reference shelf) or available online.
• Found In--Limit search results by setting WHERE your search term is found: in the author, title or subject field. This is especially useful when searching the name of a person. If someone has written books under that name, then selecting subject will give you biographies of that author. Selecting the author facet will return books written by that person.
• Format—Limit results by format (DVDs, music CDs, ebooks, etc.)
• Location—Limit your results to a specific library location
• Age - Limit results by age level (adult, child, young adult)
• Language—Limit results to a certain foreign language or translation. You can also eliminate them from your results by selecting English.
• Tag—Check this option to limit and search subjects noted by both librarians and members of the library community, very helpful for broader searching.
• Place—Check this option to filter by the geographic setting of the book or film
• Publish Date—Limit results from a specific time.

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From your CountyCat search results display, or within a full record display of a title, there is a "cart" icon (Or, it may look to some like a boat icon), you can click to add items to a cart.  When viewing the cart, you may then add/remove items. You will also have a choice to email or print one or more items in your cart, or do a batch request. Or, you may choose to select one or more items in your cart to add to a new or an existing list. That list can be accessed from your library account over time. From the list, you can remove or add titles. You can also use it to place requests.

Watch this short 3 minute video which shows how to add and remove items from a cart in CountyCat and how to make a list.

IMPORTANT:  Patrons are asked to save no more than 10 items at a time to a cart. There is a bug with the current 2021 software that throws an error when more titles are saved to a cart at one time. This bug is fixed in the next software release coming in 2022.

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