[Evergreen-catalogers] Angular staff client catalog

[Mary Llewellyn]

I was poking around here: https://bugsquash.mobiusconsortium.org/eg/staff/

Most of our libraries' catalogers aren't really fluent in MARC. I think
they'd be more comfortable with the OPAC view we use now. I can foresee a
lot of resistance to this experimental view for us.

Mary


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:42 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I looked at this a while ago and didn't think it was that bad as I really
> want catalogers to view the MARC record instead of the current OPAC
> display. I don't remember where I saw it. Can someone please supply that
> link again if you have it.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>
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> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:32 PM Mary Llewellyn <mllewell at biblio.org>
> wrote:
>
>> We're a long way from there, but I just looked at it on a community
>> server, and I can see why the catalogers are unhappy. We've spent a lot of
>> time adding to our bib record display (it was pretty bare bones back circa
>> 2010-2011), and this view is even worse, just the record summary. I suppose
>> they could make the MARC view their default view, but my catalogers are
>> used to being able to see all the descriptive cataloging in the OPAC view
>> and any attached items at the same time. This looks like it will make their
>> lives a little harder.
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:04 PM Thomsen, Elizabeth <et at noblenet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How are people feeling about the Angular staff catalog?  Have you shown
>>> it to library staff?  We have 3.3 on a test server and this morning we
>>> turned on the Experimental Catalog to showed to our catalogers for
>>> feedback.  They were really unhappy with it.  They value having the staff
>>> and patron views of the catalog match, and they want to see the full view
>>> of the bibliographic record whether they are determining whether or not the
>>> record is a match for an item they are inputting, or looking at record they
>>> added from a workform or Z39.50 to spot and correct problems.
>>>
>>> The grid only has a few pieces of information from the bibliographic
>>> records that are useful in terms of matching the record to the item in hand
>>> -- the author, the title, the year and the edition statement, if any.  No
>>> format, publisher, description, ISBN, no links to other formats and
>>> editions, no cover image.  I appreciate that they added a link to *View
>>> in Catalog*, which takes you outside the staff client to the public
>>> catalog, but that seems very cumbersome for something people are going to
>>> have to do for practically every record.  And won't public service people
>>> have all the same problems looking up records for patrons to place holds?
>>>
>>> I understand the need to Angularize this, and appreciate the work that's
>>> gone into it.  There's a lot I like here in terms of the UI, but with this
>>> sparse display of the bib record, it looks like a real step backward to us.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Elizabeth B. Thomsen
>>> Member Services Manager
>>> NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
>>> Danvers, Mass.
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>>
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>> Mary Llewellyn
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>> Bibliomation, Inc.
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Mary Llewellyn
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24 Wooster Ave.
Waterbury, CT 06708
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