MyOPL Catalogue

 Visit https://orangeville.bibliocommons.com

• In the top right, click Log In / My Account.

• Click Log In / Register.

• Enter in your barcode and PIN.

• The site will prompt you to register an account, choose your username, and set your preferences.  The next time you log in, you can use either your username or Library card number.

If you can't remember your PIN and this is the first time you have logged into MyOPL Catalogue, you will need to contact the Library to find out what it is or have it reset. If you have already created your account in MyOPL Catalogue, you can click on "Forgot your Password?" to have it sent to the email you registered with. If you still don't receive an email, please contact the library.

While our database (the place your records are kept) accepts PINs that are up to 25 characters long and made up of numbers, letters and many possible special characters, MyOPL Catalogue will only accept the following special characters: _ ! @ % . Please do not use any other special characters other than those 4, although you may use numbers and uppercase or lowercase letters. If you continue to have trouble, please contact the library.

• Registration sets you up to manage your MyOPL account from one location - search for physical and digital (coming soon!) items in one catalogue, renew items, and easily link to place holds.
• Registration allows you to create an easy to remember username to log in, interact with other library patrons, get personalized recommendations, and contribute ratings and reviews.
• Since this catalogue is a new service the library is providing, users have to be aware of and agree to the terms of use.

You can login with your username or your library card number. That’s up to you. The reason we require all users to select a unique username is because the new catalog lets you do things like commenting on books and keeping track of your reading on shelves. And to support this, we need all users to create a username. 

As MyOPL Catalogue is being provided by a company that is not the same company as our old catalogue, you will need a new username that fits the new company's rules. While MyOPL Catalogue is Orangeville's catalogue, it is shared with many other libraries and it's possible that the username that you would like to use has already been chosen by someone else. You can add a number at the end to keep your new and old usernames similar.

No. Your borrowing history will never be shared with others. The new catalogue has a lot of social features, but they are completely optional. If you do nothing different with the new catalogue than you did with the previous one, none of your activity will show. It’s only when you add comments or add titles to your shelves that your activity is shared publicly and even then, you can make all of your shelves private to only you.

Always Private

• Borrowing information, including items Checked Out, items On Hold, and Fees.
• Account information (name, address, email, phone)
• Card number and password/PIN
• Private notes and personal tags on catalogue records

Always visible

On catalogue records (identified by username only):

• Comments
• Quotations
• Age Suitability
• Summaries
• Videos

If you don’t want your username to show up anywhere, don't add any of these things to a catalogue record. 

Things you can make private

These items are visible by default, but you have the option to make them private.

• My Shelves/My Collections – Completed, In Progress, For Later
• Activity Feed
• If you add information to the "My Profile" section of your account, it will be visible to others when they click on your name
• Lists -- when publishing a list, you can choose to share the list or keep it visible only to you.

There are two reasons you are seeing books, lists and comments from other libraries. The first is that MyOPL is a social catalog, built for sharing, and having input and opinions from many places makes the sharing more powerful. Secondly, Orangeville is part of a group of libraries that share resources to be more efficient. The catalogue is one of those resources, so it is shared with about 30 other libraries and they are providing a lot of the content and the material that is being reviewed. While sharing the catalogue with other libraries means it's not as easy to see Orangeville-only content, it does provide you with even more quality content than we can provide alone.

We are currently experiencing trouble with the Library App. We are working on getting this fixed. Please use the online catalogue for your holds and renewals.

Once you are logged in, click on your username in the top right corner and then on "Checked Out" in the dropdown list.

Once you are on your "Checked Out" page, use the checkboxes to select the desired titles and then click Renew. You can narrow your list to just the items that are about to be due by clicking on "Due soon" on the left hand side.

You can renew your library membership by contacting the library. See our Library Cards page for more information.

A community moderation model is used on the new catalog. You are able to click the Report This link to report anything you think is inappropriate. When 3 separate users report something, the comment is automatically removed and reviewed against the Terms of Use of the catalog.

If you had lists created in our old catalogue we saved these lists for you. To see them again, you need to Import them into MyOPL. Once you log in to your account, go to My Library Dashboard by clicking on your name in the top right corner. If you had lists, you should see a notice like this:

Click on Request Import to begin the process. After the work is done, you will find them in your Lists section (click on Lists in the dropdown under your name). You may find that some lists have been broken into multiple new lists but your items should all be there. See "How do I move items from my Imported lists to my Shelves in MyOPL Catalogue?" for more information.

Unfortunately, your borrowing history from the old catalogue was unable to be transferred, however, library staff have access to print the list for you so you can add the items to your Completed Shelf. Moving forward, be sure to enable your borrowing history in My Settings in MyOPL (available under your name in the top right corner).  You would have had to ask library staff to keep your borrowing history in the old catalogue for it to be kept - most people did not have any of their borrowing history kept.

In the dropdown list with your name on it in the top right corner, find My Settings and click on it to find the spot to enable keeping your borrowing history. Click on Change and slide the dot to the right on the new page to enable the setting. Don't forget to click on Save Changes.

Once you are in the list that you want to move to your shelves, find the little tab to the right of the list item:

When you click on that tab, it will automatically add the item to your For Later Shelf. If you would prefer to have that on your Completed or your In Progress Shelf instead, click on it and change the dropdown in the opened menu to Completed or In Progress:

Your items should now be in the old list AND on your For Later, Completed or In Progress shelves.

You can log in to your account in the top right corner of the page using your library card number (14 digits, no spaces) and your PIN: