Voyager version change, November 2005.
The character encoding for the Voyager catalog will be changing to Unicode. In order for diacritics to display properly when using the Save/Print feature you will have to change your browser settings.In Internet Explorer
Go to: View > Encoding
and select Unicode (UTF-8)
Some more uncommon exotic diacritics may not display properly unless the font is changed. To display these properly: Go to: Tools > Internet Options > Fonts
For the Web type font, select a Unicode font, if any are available. MS Arial Unicode is recommended by the Library of Congress. Lucida Sans Unicode also works. For the Plain Text font select a unicode monotype font. DejaVu Sans Mono is available for free on the Internet.
In Firefox
Go to: Tools > Options > Languages
and under Default Character Encoding: select, Unicode (UTF-8)
Also new options for capturing records are available. See the Help Page for Print/Save and Email for more details.
September 2004, New search criteria
Command keyword searches for NLS national program titles (books in the RC and BR book number ranges) can now be restricted to adult fiction, adult nonfiction, juvenile nonfiction, and juvenile fiction.
See the FAQ for more details.May 2004, NLS New Books List
To retrieve lists of NLS books by month of release enter a search in the pattern: "distributed [month] [year]" and select Command Keyword. For example, to retrieve NLS records for books issued in April 2004 enter: "distributed april 2004"
Remember to include the quotation marks.
Entering the current month in the search will retrieve records for all titles distributed to the current point of the month. The list will update on Tuesday evenings.
Canned Searches
Recent Russian Language Titles, May 2004
From time to time, NLS adds titles to its special foreign language collection (SFLC). We have added coding to catalog records for SFLC Russian-language titles added in 2002 and 2003. Here is a canned search to retrieve recently added Russian language titles.
For more information on retrieving records by language see the FAQ.
Recent Network Locally Produced Spanish Language Titles, May 2004
Here is a canned search to retrieve network Spanish language titles produced since 1997.
For more information on retrieving records by language see the FAQ.
