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The OPAC is the shop window of your library service. And as experienced Internet users, your customers expect an attractive, intuitive means of search and retrieval that utilises the search techniques they already use.

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Flexible Styling

Make your OPAC look and feel like your website

  • Full design control using cascading style sheets
  • Customisable templates
  • Simple administration
Visit: Southwark Libraries
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Easy resource discovery

Single search box and sophisticated relevance ranking

  • Simple refinement of searches by facets
  • No dead links from searches
  • Word Clouds for most popular searches
Visit: Bradford Metropolitan District Council
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Enriched content

Enliven your catalogue with colour and depth of information, including:

  • Book jackets
  • Table of contents
  • Synopsis of the items
Visit: Southwark Libraries

Talis Prism FAQs

How will Talis Prism benefit my organisation?

Talis Prism will provide your library with an attractive, modern and flexible OPAC. It will increase the success rate of users' searches, thereby increasing use of the library's stock and reducing pressure on library staff.

How can I get enrichment data into my catalogue?

Enrichments can be added into your catalogue, including book cover images, summaries, tables of contents, reviews, author biographies and awards, for more details please contact sales@talis.com.

Will we need new hardware?

Talis Prism is a hosted service and as such should not require any further hardware. Your ongoing hardware needs should also diminish, for example - smaller servers, as less data is needed to be stored with you. All of your data will always remain exactly that - yours. For more info about your specific requirements, email sales.

How can I see the functionality of Talis Prism?

Register free for one of our Prism Days, join us for a webinar or contact your account manager for a demonstration

How is the Talis Prism interface customised?

Talis Prism uses standard web tools to customise the look at feel. These include Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that are easily amended. If you require any assistance with this configuration, the Talis Design team offer a range of consultation packages. These range from basic design advice to a full design service to meet your organisational needs.


"The library catalogue is much easier to use now"
"the new library catalogue is a very welcome improvement making navigation far easier."
"Library catalogue - is excellent, easily navigated and accurate"
Students at University of Bolton