Guide
Use the public discovery shelves to learn about authors, reader teams, and narrators.
Published 2026-08-13 · Reviewed 2026-08-15
ARC Library has two discovery destinations for people behind the books.
Authors & Teams
Browse public author profiles and available team opportunities. On your phone, Discover, search, Tune, and the Open teams / Authors destinations stay together in one compact header.
Open team cards keep the team identity, a short eligibility summary, closing or capacity information, and one main action in view. Tap the team name for full details. Join team keeps a hosted application inside ARC Library; Open form opens an external application. Use More for Details, Track in My Teams, or form-management actions available to you.
Switch to Authors to see public profiles and the books connected to each author without losing your shared search. On phones and tablets, an author profile separates Profile, Books, and Opportunities into pinned chapters. Your signed-in author view may also include a private History chapter; public pages never expose that reader history.
Names with commas, periods, colons, parentheses, quotes, or backslashes search normally. Their public profile can still load matching request-form opportunities because the punctuation remains part of the name.
On a computer, opening an author profile moves keyboard focus into the profile. Tab and Shift+Tab stay inside until you close it with the Close button or Escape, then focus returns to the author card you opened.
Voice Gallery
Choose the hand-drawn gramophone in Discover to open Voice Gallery. The same transparent-background gramophone marks the destination in expanded navigation, compact rails, and the phone More menu.
Browse narrator profiles and the books connected to their public catalogue information. Use search and profile pages to learn whose work appears on an audiobook. Add two or more voices to the combination shelf when you want only audiobooks performed by every selected narrator.
ARC Library checks public books for verified Audible editions even when they were not already marked as audiobooks. A matching edition can add its narrator, listening time, cover, release date, and Audible link to the public catalogue. Clear person names receive a Voice Gallery profile and connect automatically, while cast and synthetic voice labels wait for catalogue review.
Discovery information is public-facing. Your own private notes, tracking fields, and reading history do not become public simply because you open or follow a profile.