Find great books, music, and movies on the Catalogue
Visit the Catalogue at https://orl.bibliocommons.com.
The Catalogue makes it easy to find what you are looking for fast! Place requests, renew titles, and manage your account. Rate books, add comments and book reviews, and make reading lists that you can share.
Click on the links below to help you get started with the Catalogue
Registering Your Library Card in the Catalogue and Choosing a Username
First time using the Catalogue? Complete a quick sign-up process.
Review My Settings
Learn how to make your Lists and Shelves private and how to share as much or as little as you want!
Forgot your PIN ?
Reset your PIN online, if your email address is listed on your library account. If you have no email address on file, contact staff at your nearest library location.
Need further help?
BiblioCommons Help covers the following topics:
- Renewing items
- Placing and pausing your hold requests
- Saving items on Shelves to keep track of what you’ve read, or plan to borrow and enjoy in the future
- Creating lists to share with other library members
- Adding your comments and reviews
Or, email help@orl.bc.ca
Using the former catalogue
You can also search for items, place holds and manage your account from https://ipac.orl.bc.ca, you will not be able to add book reviews, or share recommendation lists. Using the former catalogue
Registering Your Library Card And Choosing A Username
First time using the catalogue? You will be asked to set up a MY ORL account. Follow these steps!
Register your library card
Visit https://orl.bibliocommons.com.
Select Log in/My ORL in the upper right corner
Select Log in/Register.
Enter your library card barcode number (all 14 digits) and PIN code.
Confirm your email address and birthday.
- Is your birthday incorrect? If not, get it corrected next time you are in the library.
- A default birthday of January 1900 is used if you hadn’t provided one when you got your library card. A birth date is required only to identify anyone 13 years or under, as different privacy rules apply to our youngest customers.
- The email address is used to reset your PIN if you ever forget it. After registering, you will get an email asking you to verify the email address provided.
- Don’t want to provide an email address? You don’t have to!
Create a username
Usernames…
- can be up to 24 characters long,
- can use letters, numbers, and underscores
- cannot be all numbers
You’ll want to create a username that doesn’t personally identify you (e.g., don’t use a name, birthday, or your address). Your username is displayed when
- leaving comments and reviews
- rating books, movies, and music albums
- sharing recommendation lists with other library members, and more!
Please note that..
- the Catalogue is used by libraries all over the world, so the username you want may already be taken.
- if you created a username in the Former Catalogue, it may not be able to be used in this Catalogue if it is in use by someone from another library system.
Here are some tips for creating a unique username. Try combining…
- your favourite colour and animal (tealdeer),
- or your favourite season and number (autumn78),
- or create a short phrase (3plumsinaboat)
Completing your registration and setting your preferences
Agree to the terms and services.
Click Complete Account Setup to finish registration!
After you have registered, you will be brought to the Welcome to your New Catalogue screen, where you will finish of with some final options:
Click the Enable Borrowing History button if you want to keep track of what you’ve checked out from the library. Your Borrowing History will always be kept private to you.
Set your preferred library branches to pick up your requested items. Setting your preferred branches will also highlight the items that are available at that library branch when you are searching the catalogue.
Click the All Done? button when you are finished and start exploring the catalogue!
Make your first stop the My Settings section of your account, where you can review and manage your privacy settings.
Review My Settings And My Profile Options
Review the privacy options in the My Settings and My Profile sections of your account, to make sure you share only what you want!
Reviewing My Settings
Visit https://orl.bibliocommons.com .
Click the Log in/My ORL button in the top right corner to expand the menu, click on My Settings, and sign in with your library barcode number or username, and PIN code.
On the My Settings page of your account, you can edit each feature (described below) by selecting the Change link next to it. Remember to save changes you make!
Account Information
Change your Email address, Username, or PIN code at anytime.
Account Preferences
Change the Holds and Pickup Location for requested items, and turn your Borrowing History list on or off. (Please note that turning Borrowing History off will delete your history, and past history cannot be retrieved after it is turned off).
Privacy
Privacy settings control whether or not items you rate or comment on, add to your shelves or lists, are shared with other library members.
My Shelves
By default, items you add to your Completed, In Progress and For Later Shelves are public, meaning other library patrons can see them when they click on your username if you have left a public rating, comment, or shared a public list.
Click on the Change link to go to the Privacy: My Shelves page, view the checkboxes and ensure the settings are how you want them for your Shelves. If it is your preference, click on the checkboxes and then click the Save Changes button so that items on your Shelves are only visible to you.
My Feeds
By default, your Activity Feed is public. Your Activity Feed is what is shown on your Profile page and includes any item you have publicly rated, reviewed, or placed on a Shelf, or added to a publicly shared list. Catalogue users can access your profile page by clicking on your username if you have left a public rating, comment, or shared a public list.
Click on the Change link to go to the Privacy: My Feeds page, view the checkbox and ensure it is set how you want them for your Activity Feed. If it is your preference, click on the checkbox and then click the Save Changes button, so that items on your Activity Feed are only visible to you.
Learn more about managing My Settings at http://help.bibliocommons.com/040settings .
Update My Profile (optional)
Update your My Profile page with as little or as much info as want to share with other library patrons.
When people click on your username – which is displayed when leaving a public comment/review or rating, or when sharing a list, they see your Profile page, where they can find out more about you, such as view your recommendation lists or recent comments and reviews, and what is has been shared on your shelves or recent activity. You also have the option of filling out your social media channels and areas of interest, and rating scales.
Filling out your profile is completely optional, and you can leave it blank if you prefer!
To update My Profile page:
Visit https://orl.bibliocommons.com .
Click the Log in/My ORL button in the top right corner to expand the menu, click on My Profile, and sign in with your library barcode number or username, and PIN code.
On the My Profile page, click on the + icons to add info to About Me, link to your social media, include your areas of interest, or choose to leave the page blank.
Learn more about managing My Profile at http://help.bibliocommons.com/035networks/000your-profile