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 (which often lines up with the publisher Series Statement).
To resolve this, we would like to see a new option in Vega Discover that allows us to hide the Series Statement entirely. Since Vega always includes the Syndetics information, where actual Series details are found, I don't think this would cause any serious issues for actual series.
Note that this is largely a rehash of https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951766-vega-discover/suggestions/48617243-don-t-display-series-info-for-things-that-aren-t-t, which was closed for lack of recent activity, but the need is still there.
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Sara
commented
There are certainly instances where patron misunderstandings can prompt a little lesson from staff on use of the catalog, but this issue feels like something that is more directly misleading than simply misunderstood. If an item is just numbered on a publisher's list of "classic titles", say, it is not part of any larger series. Patrons seeing a number might wonder what they are missing when it is purely a listing error.