Encore catalog search

The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) has added a new search feature to its Web site called Encore. It's being described as a "discovery tool." Basically it's an additional online SFPL catalog search option, similar to SFPL's own online catalog search function, but the difference is that Encore has more built-in searching and material discovery features, such as tag clouds (groupings of subject headings that link to other similar titles), easy ways to refine your search, and a great misspell correcter, similar to Google's, in case you misspell or mistype a title, author's name, or subject phrase. I highly recommend using Encore if you want to browse online for books about a particular subject and aren't having much luck with the SFPL Web site catalog search tools. You might just stumble upon something you may not have otherwise found. You can access Encore right from the SFPL homepage (it's the green search box under the yellow catalog search box in the upper left). Give it a try...