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Home Page: Showcase fixed sizing setting
Showcase cover art has the flexibility to expand and contract across various sizes, resulting in a challenging navigation experience when displaying these items. To enhance user experience, consider either enforcing a consistent display size for cover art or, at the very least, maintaining uniform sizes for all showcases. For a visual representation of the issue, please refer to the attached image.
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Automatically re-execute search in Location Drawer
In the Location Drawer, there is a search box that offers the user a place to narrow the results based on call number, edition date, etc. When the user changes the location, the results update to the desired location and the search term(s) is retained in the search box, but the results don't reflect the inclusion of the search term. The user must click in the search box and manually re-execute the search. This is not intuitive at all. Retaining the search term while updating the results to a different chosen location implies that the results include the effect of…
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Language Options
On the Vega Discover home page, only the link to English(US) is visible. The link to Español is visible only after user clicks English (but why click “English” if the page is already in English?) Suggest to display the dropdown menu items, show an arrow next the English (US), or a link to Español (US) instead of showing English (US).
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Redirect patrons to home/preferred library Collection Site upon login
If the patron logs into a patron site that isn't their preferred or home library, give them the choice to be redirected to that site.
A choice would be preferred, since a patron may be logging in to complete a check out or list save against a collection site they do have access to, so we do not want to interrupt their experience unnecessarily.
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Holds on items with volume control
In the PAC, when the volume field had an entry for one item on a bib record, all items would still show up for the patron to choose from. However, in Vega Discover, it will appear that all items are available to place a hold on, but once the user starts the hold request process, ONLY the item(s) with a filled volume field is given as an option to choose from. This has caused a substantial increase in broken holds and a holds bottleneck, as records with filled volume fields supersede records with unfilled volume fields when holds are placed.
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Add number of holds waiting for checked out items.
Some borrowers want to know how many holds are on the items they have checked out so that they know which items they won't be able to renew. It also helps the borrower decide which items they might want to finish first.
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Account Linking - Fines Payment Included
We would like the ability to combine and pay fines for linked accounts. That was a selling point for setting this up. A parent could pay all the fines for all of the children’s/partner’s accounts to pay by credit card. Since we require a $5 minimum, this would be super helpful for fines for account A with $1.50 and account B with $3.50 – combining would get them over that threshold.
Currently, if you try to pay fines for more than one of your accounts, you get a message, "Fines can only be paid for one account at a time…
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Add a Toggleable Free-Text Bibliographic Note field that displays in Vega Discover
We'd like to suggest the addition of a free-text note field available at the bib-level that would display on the resource card in Vega Discover. Our consortium is looking for solutions that would help patrons quickly and easily identify whether a title includes AI-generated content. A free-text note field that is not linked to the bibliographic record that displays in Vega would allow us to do so. This field could be used in a variety of scenarios to alert patrons to necessary information at the bibliographic record level rather than at the item level, especially since many 5XX tags are…
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Include option to sort patron Checkouts and Holds in Account Portal Overview by author
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 -
Show schedule on Homepage configuration page
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…
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Show all editions automatically when a volume field is present in the item record
When there is a volume field in the item record, show all editions automatically, so that patrons can easily view all options without taking additional steps.
Right now, when patrons first view the Vega record, they must click "Find a Specific Edition," and then the down arrow, in order to see all editions held in the collection.
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thumbnail update
Now that the thumbnail updates based on which tab of the roll-up is selected, if the thumbnail does not exist for that item type, it should display the image that does exist. For example, if the thumbnail exists for the book, but not for the audiobook, when you click on the audiobook tab, the thumbnail should display the book rather than displaying a generic blank image.
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Provide a public API Endpoint or structured Data Export for Showcases
Implement a new function or API endpoint that allows libraries to easily retrieve the structured data (metadata, ID/ISBN, image URL, link) for any active "Showcase". The data should be presented in a standard, machine-readable format like JSON or XML.
While Vega Discover allows us to embed the visual display of a Showcase on other websites, this does not give us the underlying data. This data could be used to include Showcases i mobile apps and integrate with other systems and external analytics tools. They could also be used by patrons to easily keep track of new additions to "permanent" showcases.
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Create a data sync process or 'integrity check' for Vega/Polaris
We have had issues recently where items have been transferred to new bib. records and disappeared from Vega as a result and others where items were deleted and disappeared as expected, but then never reappeared once they were undeleted.
We would like to have a database sync process that can be run which compares the Vega database against the ILS to confirm that everything is in sync - basically a cross-system data integrity check or verification process between systems that would let us know if there was anything that was out of sync so we could investigate and correct it.
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Sort volumes by number, not by digit
When placing a hold on a title with multiple volumes, a screen pops up asking "Which Volume/Issue Would You Like To Request?". The volumes are then sorted by digit rather than numerically. So, for example, Vega Discover sorts as follows:
12
11
109
108
107
106
105
104
103
102
101
100
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1(see attached screenshot for example)
This makes it more difficult for the patron to go right to the volume they would like to request.
It would be better to sort numerically:
103
102
101
100
99
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97
96
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Adding Hindi, Arabic, Urdu, Tagalog, and Portuguese
Our library serves a very diverse patron base, and, while some commonly spoken languages are represented in Vega already, there are a few missing that we'd love to see added to better represent our demographics, if possible. The languages are Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Tagalog, and Portuguese. I see someone else here has already requested Arabic and Urdu, so hopefully this helps too!
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Reading Levels Matches Audience
It would be nice if adult books (even those with relatively low reading levels) returned Reading Level readalikes of other adult books (rather than j titles). James Patterson's "The House of Kennedy" is an adult title, Vega indicates that the publisher's recommended age and grade range is 18+ years, yet the reading level suggestions include Dog Man/Pilkey and the Good Egg/Jory John
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Organizational Folders in Saved Searches and Showcases
The ability to sort Saved Searches and Showcases into folders would be helpful for larger libraries and consortium who create a large number of these assets.
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