[Evergreen-catalogers] Angular staff client catalog

[Terran McCanna]

I have not had a chance to play with 3.3 or 3.4 yet, but it was my
understanding from Bill's demos earlier this year that he only put enough
content into the initial display so that it could function as a proof of
concept to be sure the core search functions and filters were working
correctly, and that the additional displayed elements were still to be
worked out after that.

As for the public and staff catalogs matching or not, I could go either way
as long as all parties are presented with what is most useful to them.
Having a single catalog with select elements hidden/displayed for each
audience is easier to maintain over time. I expect that once the new staff
catalog is fleshed out to everyone's satisfaction, it could then be re-used
in the redo of the public catalog, so we would then be back to having the
same experience in the staff and public catalogs.

Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
2872 Woodcock Blvd, Suite 250
Atlanta, GA 30341
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 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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