Monitor New Releases with CVS Midwest Tape’s Calendar

The CVS Midwest Tape Calendar is a nifty addition to a librarian’s collection development tool belt. It’s easy to use as a reliable source for hot new releases across all our media formats and many collections. Let’s take a spin through the calendar tool:

Two Ways to Access
Click Calendar in the top Navigation Bar.

Select your format of choice within Quick Links.

Two Ways to View
Choose between Calendar View and Art View to suit your page display preferences.

Calendar View

Art View

Plenty of Functionality
Use the dropdown menus in the top left of the Calendar page to select format and collection.

Mouse over titles to view product details.

Quickly identify titles in carts or on order by mousing over the symbols.

What do you think of the CVS Midwest Tape Calendar? What collection development tool is essential for your day-to-day?

New Features for CVSMidwestTapes.ca

At CVS Midwest Tape, we take pride in our time-saving, user-friendly website. Recently, we made some improvements to www.cvsmidwesttapes.ca. Below is a list of those changes followed by a detailed description of each.

April Website Updates

• New Release Panel
• Calendar Function Enhancement
• Blu-ray and Playaway Format Separation
• Revised Help Tab

New Release Panel
We’ve redesigned the new release panel on our homepage, adding additional collections and giving it a cleaner, brighter look. You can now select which collections within each of our formats (including Blu-ray and Playaway) you would like to view.

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Upon hovering over a title within the new release panel, a textbox displaying product details will appear.  If you mouse away from that title, the textbox will disappear. This feature also exists on our Calendar tool.

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Calendar Function Enhancement
We’ve added a new tab along our top header labeled Calendar.

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Upon clicking this new tab, you’ll be directed to our enhanced Calendar (also accessible via Quick Links). The new Calendar has dropdown menus that allow you to sort by media format and collection.

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If you click the “Art View” option, the calendar will change from the list view display to an artwork display.

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You will now be able to view the artwork for products in order of street date.

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Blu-ray and Playaway Format Separation
Because our Playway and Blu-ray collections continue to grow, we have separated the two from the DVD and Audiobook formats.  You will now be able to view Playaway and Blu-ray titles via the new release and Quick Links panels on the homepage:

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Additionally, when you search for titles via SmartBrowse, Blu-ray and Playaway results will show up separate from DVDs and Audiobooks:

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Revised Help Tab
In order to make it more usable, we have redesigned the Help tab on the webpage. We’ve now reorganized items and made all links readily accessible:

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For questions regarding our latest website updates, please contact Customer Service at 1.866.698.2231. You can also post your questions and feedback here as comments.