Add Permalinks to Staff Catalog display

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

When working in the staff catalog, people often need to find and send a link to a particular record either to another staff member or to a patron. The staff catalog link can generally be copied from the location bar and trimmed to remove extraneous search and view information, but this is not always clear to newer staff, especially since library staff are often working with databases and other services that use session-based URLs that are not permalinks. It’s possible to edit a staff catalog link into a public catalog to send to a patron or post add to a social media post, website booklist, etc., but it’s confusing and easy to make a mistake.

We would like to see clearly-labelled and easy to copy staff catalog and public catalog permalinks to the bib record page. I don’t know if these are planned for the Summary tab https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1959010 (looking forward to that one!) but it might be a good idea to have these in the top part of the screen, easy to find from any tab.

Launchpad Wishlist: Add Permalinks to Staff Catalog display

ECDI Idea: https://evergreencdi.org/idea/add-permalinks-to-staff-catalog-display/

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Elizabeth Thomsen.

[Benjamin Kalish]

This would be great!

It would also be good to have permalinks for searches–when a search has just one result it redirects to the bib record, making linking to the original search more difficult than one would like.

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