INWOOD, WV, February 15, 2001 When TLC and CARL launched the innovative new personal Web-portal product at ALA, they called it “YouSeeMore.” Perhaps a more fitting title would have been “YouSeeMore than ever before.”

Why? When the product was first introduced only a month ago, “YouSeeMore” enabled patrons to create a personalized, interactive account to “see” book jackets, view tables of contents, , obtain recommendations and tap library resources. To date, several libraries have already purchased YouSeeMore content to enhance their patron access catalogs, including: Baldwin County, AL; Pend Oreille County Library, WA; Jackson Public Library, MO; and Braswell County Library, NC.

Now, TLC and CARL have enhanced the product's considerable strengths by adding a new “review” feature through a partnership with Cahners.

Available to libraries as an optional supplement to “YouSeeMore,” the review service is fast and easy to use. Patrons conduct a search via TLC's or CARL's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) and view the results. An icon indicates those selections for which a review is available, and patrons and library staff simply point, click and read.

With 250,000 reviews currently available from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and School Library Journal , patrons will have access to fiction, non-fiction and materials for adults, children& young adults. Additional reviews are added at a rate of nearly 16,000 per year. Going forward, the company anticipates “YouSeeMore” will link Cahners' reviews to the displayed results in TLC's NETPAC online patron access catalog and TLC & CARL's Kid's Catalog Web.

In making today's announcement, Annette Bakhtiar, Chief Executive Officer at TLC, stated, “At TLC we constantly strive to make a great product even better. The addition of reviews to ‘YouSeeMore' further personalizes the web-based library experience, enabling patrons to make more informed choices.” YouSeeMore has been cited by industry participants for its user-friendliness, attractive interface and its unique ability to bring diverse content together in a meaningful way.