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  1. Introduce an “Author” sort and filter option for items in the Account Portal Overview, specifically for:
    • Current checkouts
    • Active holds
    • Reading history
    This would allow patrons to group and manage their library items more intuitively, especially when they manage multiple accounts and items.

    10 votes

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  2. Currently, the behind-the-scenes view of the homepage tells you how many scheduled and unscheduled showcase blocks you have, but not which are which or what their schedules are until you go into the preview. This information would be so useful to have at a glance to help with managing and planning.

    There is room next to the purple type labels for additional useful labels. I'd also stretch out the space allocated for the block titles to make them easier to read.

    See my images for mockups of potential information that could be useful for big-picture managing a homepage without clicking…

    11 votes

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  3. In the showcases made from bookmark lists, we can select whether to show the list on the record pages. This feature is not available for showcases made from ILS Lists or Saved Searches.

    Some showcases from ILS Lists and Saved Searches may not be beneficial to patrons viewing record pages, even though we may generate showcases to embed on a website or to view for ourselves.

    Scenario 1: ILS List that compiles Bib records that the image covers do not display correctly. This showcase would help our staff and support ticket responder(s) see whether the applied changes are working as…

    5 votes

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  4. Currently there is only one error message for all eContent errors: no message from overdrive available. This is confusing for when the error is due to the patron not having a Hoopla account.

    5 votes

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  5. Please index 245 subfield c for Vega searching. This would allow for broader author retrieval, especially when the name on the work doesn't match the controlled heading. For instance, "Tomb of Sand" cannot be retrieved by searching the author, Geetanjali Shree, as shown of the cover (and in 245 subfield c) because the controlled heading (100 field) is Gītāñjali, Śrī.

    55 votes

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  6. Content Scoping -> Limit Content -> Limit By Collection list should list the collections alphabetically. Not sure how they are currently sorted, but it is currently difficult to select these in a consortium setting.

    2 votes

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  7. We would like to see Announcements (Premium option), which is currently under Settings > Page Customizations be part of the permissions for the Content Admin role. The person who handles our promotions for our homepage(s) would like to handle the announcements, as well (this is how it works for our website), but that would require making her a Site Admin, which is not appropriate - don't want her to be able to access all of the settings, nor does she want to see all of that. As Content Admin, she just sees the drop down for homepage(s) and goes from…

    2 votes

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  8. Please enlarge the back button on the resource page. We have several reports from customers that they just don't know what to do when they land on the resource page. There are other ideas to add breadcrumbs on this page or add facets, but can at least the "back" button be more prominent?

    9 votes

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  9. With Encore we could select how our branches (collections) sorted. With 39 locations this is important to us. Ideally there would be a synch between the patrons "home library" and the top branch, but for now, we would appreciate the ability to sort locations alphabetically. Seeing a differently ordered list after each search reduces usability.

    28 votes

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  10. After the daylight savings time ended in November, our scheduled MARC extractions moved back an hour (from 10 pm to 9 pm).

    It would be great for the schedules to remain unchanged

    15 votes

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  11. Staff use the catalog to pull materials for displays and storytimes, and sorting by author or title doesn't do them any good when looking in Non-Fiction, or when looking across multiple collections. For example, if they were looking for display items for Dragons they are going to be possibly in a few different Dewey numbers as well as in all the subsets of fiction, so running a search and being able to sort by call number would help them find the items as efficiently as possible.

    17 votes

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  12. For third-party connections (Overdrive, Hoopla, cloudLibrary) allow for vendor specific metadata regarding AI-generated content to be prominently displayed.

    3 votes

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  13. Currently, the only way to remove an item from a list is by clicking into the list itself and selecting the materials. Since the All Available Bookmarks feature is the first in the Bookmarks tab, it makes sense that there would also be an option to remove materials there.

    20 votes

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  14. currently if the query is blank, the search will go through, but the pagination is broken, adding a splat (*) would solve this issue

    3 votes

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  15. Attached is a screenshot of the a search result for the work "found dogs." Our library has three branches: South, Valley Ranch, and West. South's copy is checked out, and Valley and West's copies are on the shelves. The patron has used the location facet to limit to the WEST branch.

    You'll notice that because South's copy is checked out, the branches are listed as:
    +Valley Ranch|+West|xSouth--South is placed at the end even though it's first alphanetically.

    However, the line of text that displays above this is "On shelf at Valley Ranch" because Valley Ranch precedes West alphabetically.

    We propose…

    8 votes

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  16. When scheduling Vega homepage content for awareness months it would be convenient to be able to add scheduled, but as-yet-unpublished, showcases to a scheduled block.

    7 votes

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  17. It would be great to have a way to filter a search by what is actually borrow-able for the user. For instance, I was looking into a request from one of our libraries about placing a hold on a radon testing kit and after bopping around for a few minutes I realized there doesn't seem to be a way to filter a search by what is actually borrow-able for the user, which makes for a frustrating user experience.

    16 votes

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  18. Patrons are finding it less intutive to delete items from their saved lists with the "Remove from List" link almost hidden in the very top right corner of the screen.

    Each item in a saved list has a box around the image, the share button and select button are there. We also think the delete button, perhaps as garbage can icon, should be there as well.

    (The "Remove From List" button can still be in the top right, if multiple items are selected, but for one-off deletions it should be easier and more clear how to do it).

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    15 votes

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  19. The kids homepage carousels force our covers into stretched and awkward sizes (see image). The adult page seems to (1) show the covers larger (2) has less space between titles and (3) adjust to their cover dimensions. The kids looks so jankity.

    3 votes

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  20. In the account portal, use the initial of the account's first name instead of last name and show the name in the format "First Last"--except when there is a nickname, in which case use the nickname. The circled letters seem designed to differentiate between linked accounts, so I can foresee families in which everyone is labelled with the same letter and you can mostly only see the last name.

    (This would only apply when there are multiple accounts. I agree with this idea when there are no linked accounts: https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951766-vega-discover/suggestions/50968153-suppress-the-patron-name-when-account-linking-is-n)

    Also, use the first name, or nickname if there…

    7 votes

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