What are content access levels?
Content access levels let you control which types of users can view and borrow certain titles in your digital collection. Content access levels are customizable and can be different from the publisher-defined audience label.
Note: In the Libby app, users will be able to see all titles in your digital collection, regardless of content access levels. If a user tries to borrow a book that's restricted by content access level, the checkout won't be completed and the user will get an error message.
Content access levels are designed to let you manage access to titles based on age-appropriateness. Users are assigned a user type ("Adult," "Young Adult," or "Juvenile") when you set up authentication (for schools) or based on library card type (for libraries). Users can access titles at or below their access level:
- "Adult" users can access all titles
- "Young Adult" users can only access titles you label "Young Adult" or "Juvenile"
- "Juvenile" users can only access titles you label "Juvenile"
A title's content access levels, which are assigned by you, may be different from the title's audience, which is assigned in its metadata by the publisher.
Once you enable content access levels, you can select access levels for new titles when you purchase them or edit access levels for titles already in your collection.
Note: Advantage accounts control their own content access levels.
School accounts can also choose to have access levels automatically assigned.
Note: In Sora, content access levels only apply to the school's collection. To manage what users can see from added libraries, you can set up public library maturity levels.
Example scenarios for setting content access levels
- A school might make its whole digital collection available to only high school ("Adult") students by default, and then use the content access levels tool to allow access to a subset of titles for middle school ("Young Adult") students and a smaller subset of titles for elementary school ("Juvenile") students.
- A public library might make its whole digital collection available to all users by default, and then use the content access levels tool to remove access to erotic literature titles for juvenile users.
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- How to select content access levels for newly purchased titles
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