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Alison Pruntel
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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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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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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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The product team will review this idea for consideration for a future release.
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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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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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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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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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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.
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So the options should be: (1) Email List (and it's the actual text vs. a link, which is redundant of choice #2); (2) Copy List Link; ADD export list (as csv?)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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Yes, I forgot that this is available in the classic WebPAC. You can delete marked or all items in your history. Nice to have, but I haven't had anyone ask about this or complain about the lack of this functionality. Not sure if III is able to tell how many people even used the feature, and we don't even have stats/data on how many people actually enable reading history.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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We are a Sierra library, and we have a facet for format. If you go into Vega admin, Settings > Facet Administration, you can check to see if Format is enabled.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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Yes, I see this. Maybe I wasn't aware or forgot about this being an issue. Also, I think most of our OverDrive users are just going through Libby vs. Vega. If the number of holds are accurate, why aren't the number of copies?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Alison Pruntel
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Currently you cannot store your images/promotional assets for Vega Homepage like you can for LX Starter. We have some "evergreen" images we like to use for the Hero and if we use one week, then take it down, use later, you have to try and dig it up locally. Ideally you could save the Hero image and associated URL/Showcase Link and just pull that up.
Note: I may have complained about this in another idea (maybe the scheduling of layouts idea) but it's really standalone.
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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.