Discovery Task Force Discussion Items

By
Michael Yunkin
on September 25, 2009 4:29 PM | | Comments (2)
This is the place to make your comments or ask your questions about the work of the Discovery Task Force -- we appreciate your input!!

See the Discovery Task Force wiki page (library access only) for background and addition documents.

New Home Page Preview Available

By
Darcy Del Bosque
on August 4, 2009 4:56 PM | | Comments (6)
The new Libraries' home page is scheduled to go live on Monday, August 17, 2009.  Please take a look at the preview and let us know if you notice any bugs.  The revisions to the page incorporated both usability feedback and staff input. 

If you have tutorials, handouts, or other resources that you need assistance with because of the design changes, please contact a member of the Web Management Committee. 

Web Developers should stop making changes to web pages on "set" and "go" between August 10, 2009 and the launch. 

Feel free to share your feedback by posting a comment.

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Proposed WebOPAC material type (format) label changes

By
Kee Choi
on July 24, 2009 2:05 PM | | Comments (11)
One of the tasks the former WebOPAC Committee had agreed to address was the review of the list of material types used when a modifying a search.  We are all aware that the term "AV Materials" was confusing, misleading, etc. but we have decided to look at all the terms used for material types and whether we even need to list every possible material type available.

Unfortunately we cannot make these changes available on the test server.  However Brian Egan created a side by side mock up so you can see the proposed changes.

Areas of note:
  • "Material Type" has changed to "Format"
  • Order of items has changed
  • Terminology has changed
  • Number of formats has been reduced

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Please post your comments, suggestions, etc. on this blog post by August 7.

Once we have received your comments we will be sharing these proposed changes with our III shared member institutions.

WebOPAC labels do not automatically get updated in Encore.  We will need to let III know what changes to make once we have decided what we want..

Attached is a spreadsheet that will provide some additional information: 

    Sheet 1 lists the WebOPAC material types (bcode2) with the term as currently displayed, the number of UNLV records displaying as of 7/13/09, the MARC definitio of the term, and local information.

    Sheet 2 lists the WebOPAC material types (bcode2) with the proposed term in a new display order, the current term, the number of UNLV records, the number of member institutions records and the total number of records all displaying as of 7/13/09 , the MARC definition of the term, and some notes about the proposed changes.
 
Material type proposal on III.xls


Try it Out: Text a Call Number from the Catalog

By
Darcy Del Bosque
on July 1, 2009 1:22 PM | | Comments (0)
The WebOPAC committee has installed some customized code in the WebOPAC which will allow patrons to send a text message of the title, location and call number of an item to their cell phones. This text message enhancement allows patrons to walk to the stacks and look for the book without having to write down that information using a pen and paper.

Below is a screen shot of the Text Info to Phone button.

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For all you texters out there, please give it a try! To see this feature, you need to search using the "staging" WebOPAC (http://webpac.library.unlv.edu:2082/search~S1) - this feature is not available to the public just yet. We need to hear from anyone who does not use AT&T as their cell phone provider (successes/failures). Once we've tested this enhancement, we'll be pushing this out to the "live" WebOPAC.  Leave a comment about your experience with the new feature.



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