We don't use Vega, but our consortial discovery layer provides filters by genre. Per our Reference folks, patrons find it extremely helpful in narrowing their searches. We have a graphic novel collection and one of my current projects is to enhance those with the generic graphic novel heading with addition fields of Nonfiction comics, Historical comics, Shojo manga, etc. as appropriate.

Our staff and library users have asked for this. This was a favorite facet in Encore, and after moving to Vega, it is missed. The natural (and sometimes) language used in these tags has become vital for discovery.

I was looking for something referring to this on the product board, thinking it had been there previously, so signal-boosting in case this is now one that's waiting on a MEEP cycle for consideration. We'd very much like to see a genre facet leveraging the 655 tag come to fruition - it's been a huge ask from staff and would let us much more easily build targeted showcase lists for patrons, in addition to allowing for a better search experience.

Has there been any movement on this enhancement? I would think that including 655 genre field searching, either as a Concept or as a separate facet, would be basic functionality of any OPAC. I realize there are workarounds by manipulating the MARC record to accommodate for Vega Discover's limitations, but this is so unnecessary and just plain wrong. The distinction between subject (topical) and genre/form headings exist for a reason, and that's because they are very different. Please let us know if this functionality isn't going to be implemented, as it will be a very big undertaking for our library to make a 655 to 650 field global change. Thank you.

Yes, while target audience is already included, we would also like to be able to have fiction vs. nonfiction, mystery, etc. Picture books specifically. For that, staff can do the age/target audience, but it's still too broad (we have ours at juvenile). Now they also have to use the location facet (shelf location) and search to limit choices for picture books (luckily that is part of the branch/shelf location name). Too many steps.

Indexing Genre is important for us too. We are currently using a workaround (changing all 655s to 650s so that they can be searched) but would like to be able to use the tags correctly and still provide search access to these headings.

Removed reference to 008 audience as this feature already exists and can be turned on as a facet in the Staff Admin.

Do you not have the age facet enabled? Or am I missing something.

We do tag for genre, and have it indexed, but no one ever really used it except a few staff. The WMR showed minimal usage in our classic WebPAC.

Thank you for submitting this. Our staff is also asking for this as well.