[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sorting catalog search results

[John Kintree]

When looking at the results from a catalog search at www.gapines.org, it would 
be nice if there was a control that would allow the user to sort the results.  
The control could allow the user to specify one of several means of sorting, 
such as having the most recent publications at the top of the results.  

The type of target audience for this requested feature is patron, and would 
probably benefit a considerable part of that audience.  An example use case 
would be a subject search on something like "photovoltaics," when there are 
several pages of results, and the patron is especially interested in the most 
recent publications.  

Specifying sort criteria can be done in the Advanced Search page.  Placing 
that feature at another point a patron might want to use it would make 
gapines more user friendly.  

BTW, thanks, Bill, for adding the navigation bar to the bottom of the results.  
Adding a control for sort criteria to the results page would probably only be 
needed at the top of the page.
Regards,
John Kintree
http://home.swbell.net/jkintree/islt/