[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sorting catalog search results

[Mike Kastellec]

I'll second that as an excellent suggestion. Staff would also benefit 
from this feature, as we use the catalog even more than patrons and it's 
easy to forget to enter a sort criteria before searching.

Mike

John Kintree wrote:
> 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/
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