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SWAN Libraries

About this app

SWAN is a library consortium of public, academic, school, and special libraries in the Chicagoland area. Manage your account, search the catalog, renew and place holds on books, download ebooks and audiobooks, and more. Visit your library including:
• Acorn (Oak Forest)
• Addison
• Alsip-Merrionette Park
• Batavia
• Bedford Park
• Beecher
• Bellwood
• Bensenville
• Berkeley
• Berwyn
• Bloomingdale
• Blue Island
• Bridgeview
• Broadview
• Brookfield
• Calumet City
• Calumet Park
• Carol Stream
• Chicago Heights
• Chicago Ridge
• Cicero
• Clarendon Hills
• Crestwood
• Crete
• Dolton
• Downers Grove
• Eisenhower (Harwood Heights and Norridge)
• Elmwood Park
• Evergreen Park
• Flossmoor
• Forest Park
• Frankfort
• Franklin Park
• Geneva
• Glen Ellyn
• Glenside
• Glenwood-Lynwood
• Grande Prairie (Country Club Hills and Hazel Crest)
• Green Hills (Palos Hills)
• Harvey
• Hillside
• Hinsdale
• Hodgkins
• Homewood
• Indian Prairie (Darien, Willowbrook, and Burr Ridge)
• Itasca
• Justice
• Kaneville
• La Grange
• La Grange Park
• Lansing
• Lyons
• Markham
• McCook
• Matteson
• Maywood
• Melrose Park
• Messenger (North Aurora)
• Midlothian
• Nancy McConathy (Sauk Village)
• North Riverside
• Oak Brook
• Oak Lawn
• Oak Park
• Palos Heights
• Palos Park
• Park Forest
• Prairie Trails (Burbank and Nottingham Park)
• Richton Park
• River Forest
• River Grove
• Riverdale
• Roselle
• Schiller Park
• South Holland
• St. Charles
• Steger
• Stickney-Forest View
• Sugar Grove
• Summit
• Thomas Ford
• Thornton
• Tinley Park
• Town and Country (Elburn)
• University Park
• Westchester
• Villa Park (Villa Park and Oakbrook Terrace)
• Warrenville
• West Chicago
• Westmont
• William Leonard (Robbins)
• Wood Dale
• Woodridge
• Worth
• National University of Health Sciences
• Theosophical Society
• Morton Arboretum

Ratings and reviews

Serious downgrade. If the old app still worked, I'd uninstall this and go back to the it in a heartbeat. As others have already pointed out, this app is extremely slow and the search is, at times, useless. So, no, little popup asking me to enable notifications—I don't want to enable notifications because I don't want to do *anything* in this app.

The original app was vastly better than this new one, which one assumes they believe to be an improvement. Too many "features" that get in the way of efficiency and functionality, and tons of missing content. If they really, really wanted all the pointless and intrusive (in my opinion) new "features," could they not also have managed to import the original content? OMG. Every time I have to use this, I hate it more. Couldn’t you just take it away and put the old one back?

What a perfect example of making something worse in the spirit of updating. It's very slow and the search engine is rubbish. - I just edited my review, but unfortunately it wouldn't let me change it to zero stars which is what I actually think. If I thought it was bad when I first installed it, that was nothing. Now it completely unusable. When you try to view your account, it doesn't always load and when it does, the pop-up screen does not diminish so you can't see the what books are due.

What's new

New Features
- Added a Device Permissions Dashboard screen to the More > Preferences screen
- Added support for checking if the library catalog is Offline

Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Facets are now correctly applied to searches again
- Cover images on the Holds screen will now load the correct images
- Select menus when placing a hold are now again able to be opened and scrollable
- Library links on the More screen will now all properly open
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements