Clio--The Digital Bookshelf:

Suppose you—or one of your library patrons--need to determine if Great Aunt Margaret was the Margaret Harris from Franklin County, Ohio. You could locate the county histories on Franklin County and the state histories of Ohio and page through these books, hoping that someone has indexed names and that the index is complete.

Or you could use Clio. Clio, our new digital bookshelf, allows you to search 500 state and county history books that have been loaded onto an external hard drive. You choose the books from the Clio catalog in groups of 50. We load these books onto a hard drive and ship Clio to you. When you receive Clio, plug in the power and USB cable and start searching.

Clio's Welcome Screen

Results Page
If you have a local area network, you can set up Clio on your network and up to five people have simultaneous access to the system.


You own the books. You own the drive. No subscription fees. No need for Web access. You set up locally.

Simple Search Screen

Book View
Clio searches and displays pages quickly. You can page through a Clio digital book almost as quickly as you can page through a paper book. And you can open several books at a time, for quick cross referencing.

And unlike many other digital books, you’ll view high quality TIFF images on your screen—a true representation of the original, not a digital interpretation. More importantly, you’ll be able to print high quality TIFF images—not low resolution Web images that are difficult to read.


For more information about Clio, you can view this Clio sample movie (13.5 MB), open this fact sheet  or contact us