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Benjamin Kalish
ParticipantThis is huge. I wish I never needed the expert search, but as long as it is necessary it is important that it works properly!
August 4, 2020 at 8:59 am in reply to: Initiate new numeric search directly from the results screen #691ParticipantResponding to Elizabeths reply:
While I think that the mess in your screen shot is absolutely to be avoided—I think that allowing complex searches to be initiated and edited without using the advanced search screen is essential. We do have a problem in the catalog now where search grammar is added to the search box unnecessarily, resulting in redundancy between the grammar and the dropdowns or even in the grammar itself (why do we ever end up with “author:author:author:Smith”?)
In the particular case of an isbn search, it would be great if this displayed with just the isbn in the search box and with ISBN in the dropdown, but we would first have to add ISBN to the dropdown. It’s not currently an option. And we need the more general case for searches like title:sea author:verne.
ParticipantGot it. I agree with all of this. Though I suspect that some libraries (including my own) will continue to wait until after a quarantine period before checking things in so long as their is a health risk associated with handing materials.
ParticipantWouldn’t staff then have to check in/edit the items then to clear the status? How is this better than waiting to check in the materials and then backdating the checkin?
July 1, 2020 at 3:49 pm in reply to: No warning provided when bib records with holds are deleted #677ParticipantYikes. This is bad for patrons and therefore bad for libraries. A fix is a high priority.
July 1, 2020 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Emergency closure processing fails if overlap existing closed date #676ParticipantWell, that sounds inconvenient.
ParticipantRelated. It would be great if we could see everything available in the patron edit screen without opening the patron edit screen! A simple “view patron info” tab would be great.
July 1, 2020 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Online patron self registration for immediate access to online resourc #674ParticipantThis would be great. Some libraries might wish to enforce restrictions based on age or address. It might also be good to require email address or phone number verification.
Accounts created this way would need to have a particular patron type or other indication that they were created online.
Currently many libraries, including my own, are offering online card sign up in ways that are labor intensive and slow.
ParticipantUsability on tablets is a must.
ParticipantYes, yes, yes! Column management is such a nuisance in the current interface.
July 1, 2020 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Library Settings Editor History Feature exposes sensitive data to unauth staff #671ParticipantYikes
ParticipantThis isn’t a high priority in my mind, but I agree it would be nice.
ParticipantThis would be great.
ParticipantDefinitely!
ParticipantAgreed!
I’m not sure if this is exactly how we have things implemented in CW MARS, but when we scope to a Children’s catalog we loose the Shelving Location select completely.
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