Engage librarians are responsible for managing the ebooks in the e-library. From monitoring current purchases, to checking up on expired licences, the Owned section for librarians in Engage will help you to maintain your library’s offering in order to best meet your library users' needs.


Finding the Owned section 

  1. Access Engage and navigate to the library by clicking 'Library' at the top of your screen.
    "Snapplify website navigation bar showing the logo and menu options: Home, Library, Textbooks, and Finance, with Library highlighted."
  2. In the Librarian section on the left-hand side of your screen, select 'Owned'.
    "Sidebar menu under the heading 'Librarian' showing options: Owned, Favourites, Activity, and Library Lists, each with an icon."


Viewing your library's owned, free, or expired titles

In the 'Owned' section, use the tabs to filter ebooks by ‘Owned’, ‘Free’, ‘Expired’ or ‘All’.


Owned

"Category tabs labeled Owned, Free, Expired, and All, with Owned highlighted in green to indicate the active selection."Under the 'Owned' tab, you can view all the ebooks that have been purchased by your school’s library to loan out to users. These are books with active library licences. Here, you will also be able to see relevant information relating to your library licences.


Free

"Category tabs labeled Owned, Free, Expired, and All, with FREE highlighted in green to indicate the active selection."

Under the 'Free’ tab, you’ll be able to see all the free ebooks that have been included in your library. Free titles do not have licence checkout limits, meaning that many users can check out the same book simultaneously.


If you have activated your library content setting, free ebooks will only show up in your library (for other users to see and check out) if you, as the librarian, have added them manually. Learn more about this process and your library’s content settings here.


Expired

"Category tabs labeled Owned, Free, Expired, and All, with Expired highlighted in green to indicate the active selection."

Under the 'Expired’ tab, any ebooks that your digital library used to own but which users can no longer check out because the library licence has lapsed.


Find out how to purchase a new licence and restore a specificl ebook to your digital library.



All"Category tabs labeled Owned, Free, Expired, and All, with ALL highlighted in green to indicate the active selection."

Under the ‘All’ tab, you will be able to view all your library’s ebooks in one place.


Dashlets

"Dashboard showing four colored summary cards: 219 Owned Library Licences (red), 208 Owned Library Titles (yellow), 726 Free Library Titles (green), and 1,287 Total Library Titles (blue)."


Owned library licenses - Number of licenses available for each title (multiple users can check out the same title simultaneously).

Owned library titles - This refers to the number of distinct titles the institution has purchased.

Free library titles - Number of free titles you have added/selected to your e-library.

Total library titles - The sum of owned library licenses and free library titles available in your e-library.


Library Management Controls

"Library management interface showing four buttons: a disabled 'Set Loan Duration' button, an active 'Reset Loan Duration' link, a red 'Remove Free Titles' button, and a yellow 'Export' button."


Set Loan Duration: Set how long users can borrow titles.

Reset Loan Duration: Restore all loans to the default duration.

Remove Free Titles: Delete selected free titles from the library.

Export: Download or export library data (This includes all titles in the library)


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