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Simplify Location Icons
We have a patron request to simplify the number of location and availability icons. Patrons are often confused and upset by the icons. They are upset at being confused, and eating up their time. The in-house availability icon is too small and gets lost on the page. The larger, initial icon causes a lot of confusion with seniors, parents, infrequent library uses.
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Recently Returned: What Patrons See Doesn't Match What Staff See in Polaris
We’ve noticed that Discover doesn’t display the “recently returned” shelving status that comes from Polaris even though "Recently Returned" appears as an option in our Item Mapping list. "Recently Returned" is not a true item status in Polaris. The item status for recently returned items is actually “In” (which is how these items appear in Discover), but the database flags an item depending on whether or not it is also considered "recently returned."
Discover offers its own perfectly good “recently returned” functionality, but it would be nice if the “Recently Returned” message that patrons see in Discover could match the…
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Integrate Program and Events into Vega Discover search results
Integrate program and events into Vega Discover search results, not just on main Homepage.
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7 votes
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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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Checked Outdate visible on Catalog
Patron had issues with both the app and catalog as it no longer shows the due date of checked out items (as it did with our previous catalog). They would use this as a homeschooler to decide whether or not the book might feasibly be available by the time they get to that unit. Since it is not displayed on the item status, it's like it is a guessing game as to whether the book will get to them in time for them to use.
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Delete multiple showcases
Option to delete multiple showcases at once as an admin.
Currently it is one at a time and if you are at the bottom of a large list, the update puts you at the top after removing a single showcase.6 votes -
Alphabetize Format Filter
The format filter in Discover is currently sorted by number of items in the filter (i.e. largest amount is Books, smallest is Book+Cassette). This is NOT intuitive for searching - if I want to apply a format filter, I'm going to look for the name of it alphabetically, not by how many items I think might be available in that format. With the addition of custom TOMs, this is even more important as we are adding more formats available to filter by.
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Online Patron Registration in Discover
It would be helpful for our consortia if the new patron registration form in Vega Discover had some additional options that could be added:
-Patron preference for receiving notices (Email, Mail, TXT Message)
-Text Messaging Phone (Phone 1)
-Password [choose password here rather than link to do so later]ADD the Opt in to text messages statement
- My preference for receiving library notices:
- Phone number for TXT messages and Carrier
- Logon Information – Password
- Opt in to text messages statement
- My preference for receiving library notices:
- Phone number for TXT messages and Carrier
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Allow Vega Showcases Created From Saved Search to Appear on Record Pages
Reopening an idea that was closed for lack of activity, but is still important to us:
Currently, only Vega showcases that are created from a set of bookmarks can be displayed on Record Pages, which is NOT an option for showcases from saved searches. In some cases, we prefer using saved searches vs. bookmarks, as they are easier to maintain. We still want to see those showcases show up on record pages. The documentation (https://documentation.iii.com/vega/admin/admin/Create_Showcase.htm) doesn't call out this limitation in the "To create a showcase from a saved search" section. We found out the hard way, after…
6 votesThis work was not done previously because it was deemed to be too much of a performance hog. In order to deliver a Saved Search showcase or 4 on a Full Title View we would need to run said searches and load the results within the view each time it was loaded.
We can see if there are new options to achieve this enhancement now if chosen by the MEEP group.
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Vega Home Page: Store Images for re-use in admin
We often re-use images for our Vega home page, specifically the Hero, and there is no way to quickly access those images - you are forced to upload what would be considered "evergreen" content again and again. For example, maybe we opt to promote/use one of our Hero images every 3 months for a particular service. When you go to promote that service again, you have to try and find the artwork you stored locally again, upload. It seems like this could be store somewhere, maybe make it optional when you upload to keep/store the file (so you could say…
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Integrate Ebsco Discovery Service or Explora into Vega searches
Our state has recently signed a contract with Ebsco to provide all libraries in the state with access to their Explora database system. It would be wonderful if this could be integrated into Vega searching. I have two academic libraries that would really like to see integration with EDS (Ebsco Discovery Service) as well.
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Serials volume record notification
Patrons are hoping to be notified on Vega when new issues of physical magazines they are interested in are added to the system. This would mean when a new volume record is added for a magazine, the patron would be notified on their account, similar to how they are notified about new issues of e-magazines on Overdrive. It could be done on an opt-in basis.
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Allow Vega to item level holds
Currently Vega only supports title level holds. It would be nice if Vega had the same behaviour as WebOPAC and allow item level holds.
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Add Vega Discover Patron Language Translations
Library staff have asked for the following translations to be made available so that patrons can select them in Vega Discover:
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Korean
- Russian
- Telugu
- Tagalog
- Bengali
- Hindi
- Gujarati
Many of our libraries serve linguistically diverse populations, but I know that Gujarati, Hindi, and Urdu would be adopted by several of them.
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Promote Relevance Button
In Encore there was a button for staff to manually promote the relevance of certain titles to appear at the top of search results. We'd like to see something similar implemented in Vega to ensure titles that we expect patrons to want to see first are listed first. Example below, of Ulysses by James Joyce being fourth in the results for a basic search of "ulysses"
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import saved searches from PowerPAC as well as saved lists
During implementation, saved searches should be imported as well as saved lists when a library requests it. We recently went through Vega implementation and patrons are very disappointed that their saved searches aren't in the Account Portal. While they can recreate the searches, this discourages Vega adoption by a large number of our patrons. They would rather say within the PowerPAC and continue running their searches there.
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Adding patron notes to fines and fees section
We would like the ability to post notes in the fines and fees section of the patron account to alert patrons of exceptions (in PayPal) when paying via credit card. There is confusion when payment do not go through and there is no reason given (void, incorrect credit card number entered, American Express not accepted...)
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marc record
MARC record visibility: Give libraries the ability to suppress the Full MARC record link. Our MARC records contain information that could be used to identify specific staff members.
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Add an integrated Book Tips feature
We would like to propose for a new feature to be developed that our librarians can use to publish book tips directly on our Vega Discover homepage.
Ideally, on the homepage a title image can be displayed with a short, descriptive blurb written by the librarian and clicking it would lead to the actual a dedicated Book Tips page where the full entry is displayed, as well as earlier entries. The destination page itself can either be fully integrated part of into Vega Discover itself or link out to an a customizable external website URL (the URL should in that…
6 votes
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