Geneva Public Library

Could be solid offering but critical update needed

Abandonware. Developer Communico LLC does not update and has poor command of building out and supporting apps. App frequently doesn’t work upon launch. Specifically, you’ll load up the app…and nothing can be selected. Requires force stop to work. Both on iPhone XR and iPhone 13. I will report that the app does do some of the basics quite well such as the ability to view the event calendar, display library hours, pull up library card, etc. However there are a few absolute fundamentals that other library systems and their app developers have figured out that are sorely lacking here… 1. The app doesn’t allow you to group all editions of a book together in your search. For any given book, you might have to sort through as many 50+ editions each individually 2. You can’t search just the Geneva library’s inventory. It seems this feature was planned at some point (most likely) as search results can be selected as “My Library” and “Consortium” but the My Library view still displays all books from the consortium rather than only the books actually available at the Geneva Library. 3. No ability to switch from drive through book pickup to indoor pickup (or vice versa). You can, however, toggle this on the library’s website. I do hope these things get sorted out eventually.

Catalog

This app does not give sufficient detail about video. You cannot tell if it dvd or blue ray, it just shows video.