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Maintain authentication across collection sites
A patron that has signed in on the main Vega site or any collection site should remain signed in when linking to another collection site (unless the library has specifically limited sign in to an individual site). Currently, when an authenticated patron clicks to view another collection site, they lose their authentication. Patrons are not aware that they are on a completely separate site and are then confused when clicking on "My Bookshelf" does nothing. If they click on their account at the top of the page, they are prompted to sign and and are then authenticated without having to…
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8 votes
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Passthrough Sources
Currently there are two options for passthrough sources, one to display for everything and the other to display for unavailable titles. We would like an option to display for only items not found. Our policies are that for new titles holds cannot be placed outside of our consortia for 6 months and if the option for a passthrough source was displayed, the request would be rejected. Displaying the option allows for an unrealistic expectation for the patron that they can get the material from elsewhere.
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Overdrive Renewals
It would be nice if patrons were able to renew OverDrive via Vega or at the very least be provided with some explanation indicating that those interested in attempting to renew a title go directly to the OverDrive/Libby catalog to do so.
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Owning Libraries Not Showing B/C of Too Many Items on a Record
Currently, if there are more than 1000 items attached to a record, Vega only lists owning libraries (alphabetically) until that number is reached (and doesn't display the remaining libraries. Although there aren't many cases of a single record having so many attached items in my library, it does happen (think monthly magazines). It would be helpful if that number was increased.
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Reading History diplays pop-up warning with deletion.
When patrons are deleting anything from reading history a pop-up window will notify them that (currently) their entire history will be deleted: "Are you sure you want to delete your entire reading history?" And if individual title deleting becomes a possibility: "are you sure you want to delete this(these) titles?"
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Show original check out date on My Account, not just renewal date.
Currently, when you renew an item, your checked out date updates to the date you renewed. Patrons have asked that it show the original check out date. So an item checked out originally in November and renewed in December would show the new due date, renewals remaining, and the original due date (not the date item was renewed). I suppose it could show renewal date, so long as original checkout date was available to see somewhere on the account (patron view).
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Option to hide Series Statement in Roll-Up
Vega Discover currently displays a single Series Statement at the top of a roll-up, even when there are multiple editions attached. This is generally fine for an actual series (e.g. Chronicles of Narnia), but it very confusing when it's a publisher-based Series Statement (e.g. Norton Anthology Edition, DK Classics, Penguin Readers, etc.). In that case, the information is incorrect when other editions are included in the roll-up, which is often the case in those situations. For a foreign title, this is even more of an issue, where a patron might be looking for a particular translation from a specific publisher…
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Geolocation authentication for Vega's patron registration
We would like to see Vega's patron registration to include geolocation authentication so we can limit patron registration to only those residing in NYS, and potentially just our service area.
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Use bookmark button in header instead of sidebar for lists and saved searches
The bookmark icons in the header and the new right-hand sidebar both toggle the user's lists open and closed. On mobile devices, this sidebar takes up a lot of screen space, much of it not necessary. To reduce redundancy and improve the mobile experience, I would prefer no sidebar and instead having a widget that appears and disappears with the header button only. The widget could have tabs within for getting to saved searches as well as showcases if applicable.
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Include Preferred Notifcation in Patron Assist Account
A common question patrons ask when holds are placed it how they will be notified when it comes in. It would be great if Patron Assist showed their preferred notification method from the main account page. You can see it if you go to "edit" and scroll to the bottom, but it would be nice to have it easily seen at a glance instead of having to hunt for it.
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Cover images displayed for saved searches in Account Portal should reflect newest content
We received feedback from a patron to say that the Saved Search view in Account Portal is not as helpful as the previous view since you cannot tell at a glance that there are new materials that meet the search criteria.
Previously, if a search was sorted by "newest first" you could see at a glance when new titles were added. With the current display in Account Portal, the latest title does not show up on top of the cover image view. A patron would have to run each search daily to see if there are any new titles and…
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Allow Scheduled Showcases to be Added to Vega Homepage Before Publish Date
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.
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Use first name first or nickname for patron account portal
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…
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search showcases by author and title
We have recently had the need for Showcase Admins to search all of our showcases by author. This can happen when libraries suddenly want to remove or add an author to a number of showcases, but don't know if they are already a part of that showcase.
We tried using the author record for this purpose, but authors can be associated with hundreds of resources so this is not a practical way to search for this data.
This can be a delicate issue for libraries as authors can suddenly appear in the news for various reasons and they need to…
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Social sharing of lists
Expand the current social sharing via X and Facebook to add Instagram, as many libraries have Instagram presence.
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Allow for non-MARC language codes
For a better customer experience with our Chinese titles, we created some new non-MARC language codes in Sierra to separate out the Simplified and Traditional Chinese titles. Vega does not support non-MARC language codes, so it shows as codes instead of the label in Vega.
We'd like to see Vega be able to pull codes from the LMS along with their label.
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Vega All Menu
Clicking on All Menu to get to All Links, displays an unattractive view with a big block of dark screen. Is it possible to get rid of this block of dark screen or make it visually more appealing.
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Search box in top right corner defaults to last search option..
Here is the scenario: You do a search by title from the main search bar in Vega Discover. You scroll through the results and then decide to do an author search. Instead of scrolling back to the top of the page to use the main scroll bar, you just click the orange search icon in the top right corner and enter your author's name. The results will be that you get no results. The top search icon defaults to the last search option: All, Author, Concept, Series, Title. Users may/do not understand this and are confused by the lack of…
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pickup location
Instead of only allowing a pickup location to be set as closed in Vega Discover for all libraries/branches, it would be helpful to be able to show a specific pickup location by a specific library/branch only. For example, we are a cooperative location. We are not a library. But our staff place holds to be picked up at our location. However, patrons accidentally choose our pickup location. On our old system, we were able to set it up so a particular pickup location would only display by OPAC profile (login). Can this functionality be added?
PO NOTES: This would require…
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