Add "Available at Branch" to Sierra Search/Holds facets
Staff want to limit their search in Search/Holds to items that are on the shelf at their branch. These would be items with a status of "available" and a loan rule equal to zero.
Circulation workflows are severely impacted when staff have to use the SDA and the Discovery Catalogue to determine if items are in the branch.
Libraries with floating collections or multi-branch libraries do not always know what is on their shelves.
Customers that visit the circulation desk want to know if an item is in the branch. Staff want to know if items on a particular subject are in the branch before they lead the customer over to the stack.
Re-word the current facet from "Available at library" to "Available Now".
Elizabeth Wright
shared this idea
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MEEP candidate July 2024
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Shawn P. Farrell
commented
Adding some perspective from an Acquisitions Librarian I've spoken to. Beyond just making things easier for frontline staff to locate on behalf of patrons, staff who are weeding or who send in replacement requests often miscount the number of active copies.
Attached is a screenshot of an example title that you'd think is already easy to read, but filtering would make it clearer that we have 3 copies not 6 in circulation.
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Shawn P. Farrell
commented
This is absolutely essential! We'd love the ability to limit searches in Sierra to items that are currently available at a location & ready for checkout with an Available NOW style facet.
Not just owned by a location & possibly checked out, missing, in repair, etc., but on the shelf & just waiting for its next circulation.
The availability of such a feature would help frontline staff tasked with finding items for patrons go to the shelf with a better idea of what's actually going to be there for them to find, saving no small amount of time & effort.
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The facet logic should AND things together. If a location is selected and then on shelf is selected, it should show those things on shelf at that location, not things at that location or things on shelf anywhere.
