Don't display series info for things that aren't true series
Right now, when you search something like Jane Eyre (see screenshot), which has multiple editions, some of which are part of a "series", Vega Discover arbitrarily displays one of those series statements in the roll-up. We would like it to NOT display the series info when it doesn't apply to all editions of a work, since the roll-up is supposed to reflect what all the editions have in common, not just one particular edition's series info. It could likely make the user think, incorrectly, that if they place a hold, they will get that edition in that series, when in fact the system doesn't work that way.
Note: This idea is NOT the same as "All metadata and content displayed for a work should use the same instance ISBN" (https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951766-vega-discover/suggestions/47223617-all-metadata-and-content-displayed-for-a-work-shou) because even if all use the same ISBN, it could still be an ISBN that is part of a "series" that doesn't apply to other ISBNs, so please don't merge this with that idea.
Margaret Rose O'Keefe
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Grace
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I personally dislike the "series" hyperlink in Vega Discover. I don't think it works well, and confuses patrons more than help.
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Kathryn Brew
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I agree. I'm not a cataloger so I don't know the MARC fields exactly, but I dislike these "series" that are really usually some kind of collection. That seems fundamentally different than a literary series/serialized storytelling/etc. It's annoying not just because the information is incorrect but also because it could be there in place of the actual series that the work is part of.
If it can't be distinguished, I'd rather just not have the series link, at least not on the main search results display where it isn't labelled. I have had a patron complain that they thought they were requesting the thing they saw right there. That's not user error, but a design flaw.