With the February introduction of PatronBooksInPrint.com™, your traditional BooksInPrint.com™ subscription now has two faces -- one for the professional and one for the patron.

BooksInPrint.com Professional and the complimentary patron-specific PatronBooksInPrint.com both offer you a portal into the industry’s largest unbiased bibliographic web resource. The authoritative Books In Print® database features over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles, along with special workflow and added-value features that can't be found anywhere else.

Both versions (Professional and Patron) allow users to search utilizing over 30 criteria, and select titles from the search results to save in a list that can be printed, downloaded, or e-mailed for future use.

With BIP ALERT, you can save your search criteria and receive e-mail alerts whenever titles matching your personal criteria are released. Take advantage of Hooks to Holdings™ and instantly know if the title you're interested in is available at your library or consortia. Patrons and professionals alike will love the Century of Bestsellers feature, as well as comprehensive lists of finalists and winners from the industry's top 400 awards. Can you name the Pulitzer winner from 1956? How about the Caldecott finalists in 1980? Find the authors of the winning titles, then search information on more than 500 of the world's most popular authors and contributors. Search the titles from Oprah's Book Club. The possibilities are endless!

BooksInPrint.com Professional retains its functional work management features and capabilities, including: downloadable records in ASCII, CSV, and MARC record formats; order downloads in vendor specific formats; and one-click ordering from Emery-Pratt and BookSurge. Additionally, wholesaler stock and availability information is at your fingertips from over 26 suppliers, speeding acquisitions and collection development. Exclusive to BooksInPrint.com Professional is the Forthcoming Book Room which spotlights new titles up to 5 months before they're released.

While patrons can continue to use the professional interface, PatronBooksInPrint.com is a patron-friendly, intuitive, and one-of-a-kind resource designed just for them! Easy-to-navigate search results contain cover images, allowing users to quickly identify their selection. Patrons can personalize search options and save their criteria in My Favorites. My Favorites also lets them keep track of their BIP Alert preferences (maybe this month they want to track new Steven King novels and next month gardening books). Patrons can create individual reading or research lists, which they can then e-mail to any computer they choose. Whether your patron loves Sherlock Holmes or Snoopy, PatronBooksInPrint.com features an exclusive option to search by a recurring character in fiction or children's work that will allow them to follow their favorite character through the years and from publisher to publisher. Patrons can also search by genre -- fiction, romance, how-to books, and more! PatronBooksInPrint.com will help them find the perfect title!

For more information on BooksInPrint.com Professional and PatronBooksInPrint.com, visit BowkerSupport.com, which provides product updates, usage tips, and resources for your Bowker subscriptions. Currently, we offer a "cut and paste" press release that you can include in your newsletter, website, database list, or local media to announce the debut of PatronBooksInPrint.com. Send your patrons to http://www.BowkerSupport.com/info for complete details on all the benefits PatronBooksInPrint.com has to offer. To set up remote access to PatronBooksInPrint.com, please contact technical support at TechSupport@Bowker.com or call 1-888-269-5372, Option 2.