[Evergreen-catalogers] Angular staff client catalog

[Thomsen, Elizabeth]

Thanks, Terran, that's helpful and reassuring.  As proof of concept, and
the way the search elements are displayed and work and all that, it's
fine.  I have no problem with what's there, only what's not there!

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 9:10 PM Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> 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.
>> www.noblenet.org
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Elizabeth B. Thomsen
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Danvers, Mass.
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