Search your local library cookbooks for recipes

We have recently added a new feature allowing library patrons to search the collection of cookbooks on their local library’s bookshelves. It works slightly differently to an individual membership, allowing access directly to the recipe search from a QR code or short URL that the library supplies to their patrons. The library patrons cannot make any changes to the library data but can search both the books and recipes in their entire collection. And also search the EYB collection of 540,000 online recipes.

If you borrow cookbooks from your local library and would love to be able to search their collection for recipes, please suggest to the librarians that they take a look at these Help Pages that explain how the service works. It costs a very reasonable US$250 each year – much less than most data services that libraries subscribe to. Imagine that you want to make a special recipe that isn’t available in your own collection. Or you have a glut of zucchini from your garden and want some new recipe ideas. Or you’d like some hints on your next cookbook to borrow from the library. If your library was an EYB member then you could do a recipe search on their collection from your own home – they probably have hundreds of thousands of indexed recipes available to you, and now you can find them.