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Due to the limitations of Wix forms, we are having to use a 3rd party application instead (OpenForms), therefore not keeping the user/patron on one domain/platform.
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This just came up again. We have two books with the title "France" and no author. A 2024 Lonely Planet France guidebook and the 2023 DK guidebook are included in the same Vega record. The books have separate bibs with unique ISBNs. The explanation is that these bibs are rolling up together because they have the same title (245 $abnp) and no author field to differentiate them either. It's frustrating that Vega won’t let versions of the same title roll up if there is an errant comma in an author field, but two books called “France” it determines are the same. Support directs us to this:
1. If the bib is for a single word or simple title that and has no author, consider adding distinguishing data to the title field to unroll it from the larger work. For Example: A travel guide about Thailand that is simply titled "Thailand" and has no author can be updated in the following way to differentiate the instance from other works with the same title and no author:
a. Include the Guide Series in the title: $a Thailand $b (Lonely Planet)
b. Include the publication year in the title: $a Thailand $b (Lonely Planet 2023)
c. Give the guide series an author designation:
1. Title: Thailand
2. 110 Author: Lonely Planet Travel Guides
d. Some libraries choose to have a single bib record for guides with yearly volumes for each reprint of the guide and use the item volume details to allow the patron to select a particular year's guide.Adding a subtitle that is not actually part of the title to satisfy the software is a deviation from standard cataloging procedure.
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See comment from PrarieCat 1/9/24 on Vega Listserv - https://listserv.iii.com/read/messages?id=507451.
We run into this issue, where a title like Bloom's Literary Places (Paris, London, etc.) were rolling up with travel guides with the same title (i.e., Paris), because in both cases the items in question had the same 245$a and neither had an author. I don't know if this would be remedied by being able to customize or not. Our catalogers would prefer to NOT change the 245 to something other than what's on the book in order to make Vega roll up correctly.
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I would like to add on to this idea... it would be nice if you could add a comment to go with each item you bookmark...so WHY you bookmarked it. This is what we'd want if we were making a broad showcase like Staff Picks. So there would be a description of the showcase itself and then each item would have a blurb from the staff member, why they chose it. I think it would also help when patrons bookmark items. Often they don't create a list, may just have "For Later" and then can't remember why they bookmarked something (i.e., friend recommended, etc.). Related, the showcase creator...aside from the Nickname, it would be nice if there was a bio or description you could include.
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I would love to be able to use a showcase vs. the RSS lists for the mobile app. Less work!
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I am not even going to bother telling staff (and patrons) that they can search by call number, because the requirement to enter a call number in its entirety is pretty ridiculous. It needs to work like it does in classic WebPAC - it's an index, part of the drop-down choices, and you can search for partial.
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Currently it is not obvious that you can search by call number. I think library patrons, especially staff and power users (who continue to use the Classic because of the perceived lack of this option), are going to look for that.
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Per Barbara Leach, the hold-removed table records the following, so would need similar columns to the hold table...
removed_gmt
removed_by_user
removed_by_process
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The cookie/banner makes kiosk mode w/incognito mode unworkable and very frustrating to patrons who walk up to our kiosks, just want to be able to look up a book.
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Yes, statistical information in general, esp. for Vega home page. I concur that it makes no sense to continue to devote staff time to developing things like showcases if no one is using them. At this point, we have no idea. The reporting in Vega is pretty abysmal, esp. in light of it being in GA for several years now.
We would like to be able to limit load of pages where images/buttons are not important. By allowing a header field to be associated with a repeater would be welcome.