[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation's Enhancement - "Search Catalog" Button

[Amy Terlaga]

Hi all--

I would like to share Bibliomation’s good news with the rest of the
Evergreen general list.  We just submitted a software enhancement and it has
been accepted by the Evergreen community.  

Melissa Lefebvre, Bibliomation’s Open Source Project Manager, and Ben Shum,
Bibliomation’s Open Source Software Coordinator, were jointly responsible in
making this software enhancement happen.

Here are the details of this software enhancement:

> When Bibliomation first installed Evergreen 1.6, we were very pleased 
> to see the addition of the Button Bar to provide quick shortcuts to 
> important staff client functions.  It was an early decision to enable 
> the Button Bar by default on all staff clients in our consortium.
> Based on user feedback from our development partner libraries, 
> however, we soon discovered a great need to expand the existing Button 
> Bar by including a "Search Catalog" option.  Staff members were 
> confused given that searching the catalog for items was deemed an 
> important primary function and they were disappointed not to see a 
> button for it.
>
> This was our first patch created for Evergreen and was submitted to 
> the developers' mailing list on November 4, 2010.  The new Search 
> Catalog button links to open a new Advanced Search screen.  Melissa 
> Lefebvre created a new Search Catalog icon by adapting images drawn 
> from the original icon sets used to create the first button icons used 
> on the Button Bar.  Ben Shum wrote the necessary code to create the 
> new button functionality and compiled the patch against the latest 
> version of trunk for submission to the Evergreen Community.
>
> Thanks to developer Jason Etheridge for answering our questions, 
> reviewing and committing our first patch for Evergreen.

We’re very pleased to be able to contribute to the Evergreen community!

Amy

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Amy Terlaga
Assistant Director, User Services
Bibliomation
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