VPL Mobile app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 7952 ratings )

Reference Book
Developer: BiblioCommons

Free

Current version: 2.9.1, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 26 Feb 2011
App size: 18.31 Mb

Use Vancouver Public Library app to discover new titles, borrow ebooks and audiobooks, place and manage holds, check your account, browse staff recommendations and more.

Features:
- Search the library catalogue
- Display your library barcode on your phone
- Check library hours and locations
- Scan ISBN barcodes
- Save titles for later

Pros and cons of VPL Mobile app for iPhone and iPad

VPL Mobile app good for

I want to kiss it and hug it and have its babies! It is concise and quick and efficiently organised.

This is what a library app should be: simple, easy to use, well-organized, all the main features front and centre. Great job!!!

Excellent way to quickly view account details such as holds requests, items checked out and corresponding due dates. Convenient renewal option. Cool Google maps interface allowing your location to be visible if you allow the App to use your current location of your mobile device. Great branch location and contact details summary pages. Addictive catalogue search options. A must have App!

I find this app amazing but one thing I would like to see added The barcode of the book.... When it just says young adult paperback for like 5 different books how do I know which one is the one thats overdue? Please add

Really great app to check when books are due and it really handy to renew items! The interface is clean and simple. When logged in your iPod/iPhone can become your library card with the bar code, in case you forget your card!

Super easy to use app. Very clean, friendly and straightforward. Well designed.

Some bad moments

This app is great for the various reasons that other people have itemized. However, the app has hung for hours in "My Borrowing" and "Search" and has no sign of finishing.

Going on the VPL website is much faster. This app spins and spins and thinks and thinks.... it takes about ten minutes of spinning just to check what books Ive taken out. VPLs website does this in under one.

Well organized, good use of screen space, has useful functionality for browsing. BUT, hangs frequently when trying to load info--stopping and restarting doesnt fix it. Not a useful app because it stalls while connecting 95% of the time.

Does everything you would want it to. Awesome... But iPhone 5 updates please, new iPhone has been out for > a month now.

Love this app. Use it all the time for my son, but new version will not work on my 3gen I touch:( please bring back a version for older iPods.

The search function seizes up & times out! Too bad because this app is otherwise handy b

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