[Evergreen-catalogers] Display of library names in holdings view

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Bill Erickson recently submitted some code to change the display of 
owning library in the record's holdings view to the shortname instead of 
the library's full name. I and some others from IRC think this is a good 
idea for a couple of reasons:

- The space for displaying fields in the grid is more limited than it 
was in the old client. Once you use the column picker to add fields to 
this grid, the name of the system/library can get truncated, making it 
difficult to view which branch it belongs to. Any effort to free up 
space in these grids is a good thing.

- Shortnames are used elsewhere in the client. I don't know we have 
traditionally displayed the full library names in this interface, but 
changing it to shortnames makes it consistent with other web client 
interfaces.

Although these are very good reasons, I'm not a cataloger and use this 
interface in testing. You all are using this interface on a daily basis. 
I thought it might be a good idea to run this one by the list before 
merging the code into the core software.

I've attached two screenshots showing this interface with and without 
the new code. In these screenshots, I added several fields to the 
holdings view grid to better illustrate how this truncation issue can arise.

Thanks!
Kathy


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Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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