[Evergreen-catalogers] Patron view in Angular staff client

[Thomsen, Elizabeth]

We're working with the Angular version of the staff catalog on Release 3.6
on our training server, and having a hard time with the Patron View with
all the links disabled.

The pre-Angular staff catalog is used by library staff who are searching
the catalog for a various reasons, including cataloging ,but also
reference, readers advisory, collection development, working on course
reserves, booklists, displays, etc., and in all of these functions, it's
not always as simple as "find a record, add an item" or "find a record,
place a hold," etc.  Staff use the links in the catalog to navigate around
between related records, just like patrons do (actually, probably more than
patrons do.)  So they click on the author's name to see other works by the
author, they follow the subject heading links to find related works, they
click on the "View other formats and editions" to see what other versions
of the title they have that may work for their patron or their project, and
they click on the links for electronic resources for all the same reasons.

I support this comment from Bill: "I'd also like to suggest we make changes
to the Angular staff catalog proper to support whatever staff work flows
are needed. Having the embedded TPAC be integral to any staff work flow,
apart from simply seeing what displays, is a big step backwards."  [ * ]
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1849137/comments/9>

It's not the embedded TPAC itself that's integral to so many staff
workflows, it's the functionality that is only found there -- how can we
bring this into the Angular Catalog?  Otherwise I know our staff will just
want to stick with the Traditional catalog as long as possible, missing all
the good things about the Angular catalog.

WIsh I had realized what an issue this is going to be and brought it up
earlier!

-- 
Elizabeth B. Thomsen
Member Services Manager
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Mass.
www.noblenet.org
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