<div dir="ltr">We introduced the Angular staff catalog in Release 3.6, and staff have really had a lot of issues with it. One was having quite different interfaces for the public and staff catalogs -- staff liked having catalogs that were nearly identical. This was especially true of public service staff, who have to be comfortable in both as they use the staff catalog all day and also assist patrons using the public catalog.
Our biggest issue is the loss of the OPAC View tab as default tab, like it was in the traditional staff catalog. Whether you're a cataloger trying to identify whether or not to attach an item to a bibliographic record, or a public service person finding a book for a patron, placing holds, finding titles to add to a bucket, carousel or booklist, etc., you need more information than appears at the top of the screen, and you need to be able to move around from record to record -- what are this author's other books? What are other books on this subject? etc. There's a button to the Patron View, which provides the kind of useful, linky information we need, but we want that view (or something like it) to be a default tab, not a button to click every time, and following links in the that view take you out of the Angular catalog.<div><br></div><div>Here's a Launchpad bug from John Amundsen of CW MARS on this issue that could use some heat: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1959010">Angular Catalog should include "Summary" Tab</a><br><div><br></div><div>We recently upgraded to Release 3.7.2, which improved some other Angular staff catalog issues --it added the More Details button, improved the open/closed state of the search box at the top of search results and record pages, and restored the option to jump directly to the record if a search had only one hit. A big one for catalogers was restoring the counts for both the consortium and the preferred library for searches scoped to the consortium level.</div><div><br></div><div>We still have some issues with the Angular catalog search form:</div><div><ul><li>Formats List includes all formats, including hidden ones</li><li>Sort List doesn't default to our standard sort (Popularity Adjusted Relevance)</li><li>List of scopes includes codes not names, and useless choices for single-site libraries WAKEFIELD and WAK) and includes libraries who are not currently members of NOBLE. This is more of a problem now than it might have been in more stable times -- we have so many new staff at all levels that are still learning which libraries are in NOBLE, which have branches, etc.)</li><li>Search doesn't automatically re-execute when you add limiters, you have to click on Search -- this may just a matter of getting used to the change</li></ul><div>There are nice features that are only found in the Angular catalog, including search templates, and two features that are great for working with buckets: the ability to save items to a shared bucket, and the option to save all search results (up to 1000) to a basket with one click (see screenshots) and we really want staff to make the move, but we're not quite there yet.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:28 PM Kate Coleman via Evergreen-catalogers <<a href="mailto:evergreen-catalogers@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">evergreen-catalogers@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Our switch was long ago, but I remember it being a relatively small adjustment period. Things work a little differently, but most anything that we could do before we could still do, just a little differently. All this time later, there's nothing that comes to mind that I think all the time, "Man this was better in the old interface." I really do think it's nicer to look at and flows pretty well. Favorite things for me are the tabbed search box (keyword, numeric, etc.), and 100 results per page. YES!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>Kate Coleman, MLIS<br></div><div>Technical Services Manager, Jefferson County Library<br></div><div>Missouri Evergreen Consortium <br></div><div>5678 State Rd. PP<br>
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