BiblioCommons is a privately held company, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that develops front end interactive catalog and web services for libraries.

Co-founder Beth Jefferson was interested in the ways teens were using emerging technologies to engage with popular culture and wondered how youth literacy could be improved if a social context around reading could be established online.

Think) that emerged won a national award from the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and began attracting broader attention – particularly, from libraries.

[6] Asking questions, the team began to explore the potential leverage of the public library’s online catalog for the end user.

Three Canadian provincial agencies were sufficiently impressed with the research and resulting vision to fund prototypes, and ultimately to purchase advance subscriptions.

Advanced searches allow a user to narrow down their query by format, location, availability, topic, publication date, tag, and more.

[8] The Chicago Public Library system went live with the BiblioCore catalog in 2013 and launched their website based on BiblioCMS in April 2014.

[9] The Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library introduced its version of the BiblioCore catalog, revamped BiblioWeb site, and BiblioApps mobile interface in August 2020.

[citation needed] Nonetheless, the fact that BiblioCommons collects personally identifiable information at all has raised concerns,[13] which persist into 2019.