Help with the website

 

Welcome to the TLS website. The following notes will assist you in making the most from the features it offers.
Help contents below include:

The Home page

Featured Titles and Other Categories

Searching and Title Information

Wishlists

Carts

Multiple Accounts

Processing orders

Downloading Marc records

THE HOME PAGE

The homepage is the landing point and where you log in.

Log in by either clicking on the login link at the top right of the page, or where it says "please login" in the middle of the page.

 

To go directly to the search page, click on the search button on the top left, beneath the logo.

 

The homepage displays a small selection of our latest featured titles. You can click on any of the green text links: Featured titles ; New Zealand Features ; Children's Features ; General Features to go directly to those specific featured titles lists, which will display a full list of titles in that category, or you can click on any image to view more information about the titles displayed.

 

The homepage also has links to other pages with information about TLS. e.g. About us , Contact us, Services, and Frequently asked questions,  and pages with useful links and news. You do not need to be logged in to view these pages.

 

FEATURED TITLES AND OTHER CATEGORIES

On the left hand side of all pages within the site is a list of categories. Each main category displayed has sub-categories beneath it.
These are the categories that are applied to all of the books and other titles listed in our catalogue.

The category list is used for "browsing these specific categories, with the latest titles displaying at the top of the list within each sub-category.
For the best searching, Advanced Search is recommended.

 

Some items will have more than one category, for example, New Zealand titles will be listed under the New Zealand Books category, but will also be listed under Adult Fiction,
Adult Non Fiction or Children's Books.

Featured Titles lists a small list of titles that have been identified for promotion. The lists are updated regularly. All titles listed under Featured Titles will also be listed under the relevant category for the title, e.g. Adult Fiction - Crime.

Within the other categories, Adult Fiction is broken down by genre, and Non-fiction by Dewey classification.

SEARCHING

There is a Search button on the top left of all pages to easily get back to the search page.

There a three ways to search for titles on the website:

1. Quick Search

2. Advanced Search

3. Browsing the category lists as described above

Quick search

This allows you to type or scan in an ISBN to quickly find a title, or type in keywords to search in any of the advanced search fields, including ISBN, Title, Author, Description, Binding etc.

The results of the Quick Search highlight, where the keywords appear within the record, as shown below.

Advanced Search

The advanced search gives you many options. You can type into any of the fields, and use the drop down boxes to focus your search.

The Date Added option allows you to search for titles added to the site before, after, or between certain dates, enabling you to manage your selection, by searching on daily, monthly or a weekly basis, any day of the week, or to see what's been added since you last looked.

The Category list lets you select only the category you want to search within.
This allows you to search for an author, or date from your specific category only.

Please note that commas should be eliminated in author searching. e.g. use Wilbur Smith, or Smith Wilbur, but not Smith, Wilbur

Search Results

The search results will display in title order unless you use the sort by option.
The default number of results per page is 10,.
Click on the Description, detail, or review tab for title information, or click on either the title or image to view the information in full.

 

TITLE INFORMATION

Information provided for each title includes:
ISBN

Author

Illustrator

Title

Binding

Publication Date

Local Availability Date

Publisher and Imprint

Dimensions, Weight and Pages

Series

Illustrations

Dewey Classification

Author Description

Reviews

You Tube clips and Google previews with contents and sample pages are also available for some titles.

 

WISHLISTS

You can create a Wishlist of titles before ordering. This allows you to select titles that you want to consider ordering, but don't yet want to place in your cart.
The titles you place in the wishlist will remain there until you remove them, or clear your whole wishlist.

Within the wishlist you can add items to your cart by entering a quantity as described below.
While an item is sitting in your open cart, the quantity will display against the title in your wishlist, until the cart is processed.

 

CARTS

To add an item to your cart, simply enter the quantity you want into the quantity box. There is no need to press enter. The item will automatically be added to your cart, then next time you click your mouse.
You can alter the quantity by using the + and - buttons, or by going to view cart and altering the quantity in the cart.

While an item is sitting in your open cart, the quantity will display against the title, even if you do another search or log off. Ths enables you to instantly see if you have an item in your cart already. When the cart is checked out the quaintity will then be removed.

To view you cart, click on View Cart by a title, or click on the Cart button at the top left of the page.

 

Within the cart you can enter a purchase order number (Customer Ref) , individual order numbers for each title (Line Ref), Notes relevant to a specific title, e.g. Do Not Process, and Order notes relevant to the entire order.

If you make changes within the cart make sure you click on Update/Save Cart to save the changes.

You can also add additional titles by entering the ISBN into the Add to Cart box and click the Add to Cart button. If the title exists on the website it will be added to the cart. You scan a number of ISBNs into the box to add multiple titles at one time.

Non-listed titles can be noted in the notes field, and we will search and find them for you.

 

MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

If your library has multiple accounts, or more than one person selecting and building lists to order, we can set up a "Buy of Behalf" option for you.
This enables you to have one person ordering for multiple accounts or collections. Please contact us to discuss how this could work for you.

 

PROCESSING ORDERS

To process you order, simply click the CHECKOUT button on the cart.

This will open another screen with the confirmed order details for final processing.

At this point you cancel if you wish to, otherwise click on the SEND ORDER button to continue.<!--[if gte mso 10]-->

Your order will be confirmed and added to your pending orders list.

Information listed under Ord, Pkd, Invoiced, Can, Shpd,  Bk.Ord, is not currently a live feature of this website, but when development is completed this will show live information of about the state of your pending orders. i.e. when the order was placed, picked, shipped, invoiced etc.

To view the order in full, click on the green order number link.

In this open order you can print the order, create a CSV file, and download a Marc record (See notes below).to import directly into your library Management System. The Marc record can be used to create a short order record.

If you wish to view your outstanding orders at any time, click on the Pending button at the top right of the page, and the list of pending orders will be displayed.

Your order will be sent and processed immediately.

DOWNLOADING MARC RECORDS

You can download Marc records of titles you have ordered, to import directly into your Library Management System. The Marc record can be used to create a short order record.

To download a marc record go to Pending Orders by clicking on the, click the link, then click on Save and then save to the relevant folder on your computer.

If you wish to view your outstanding orders at any time, click on the Pending button at the top right of the page, and the list of pending orders will be displayed.