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Or just let libraries edit the name. The "NONE" option that can't be suppressed is a nightmare.
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If I could upvote this 10 times I would. It's not "critical" in the sense that existing workflows are broken, but it would be SUCH a quality of life improvement.
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Just curious Brandon, what is your current workflow? Before we allowed patrons to cancel held items themselves, staff would receive the request, pull the item, check it in, and choose "no" to the "continue to hold item?" prompt. We liked that because it stopped the item status from being changed until the item was physically removed from the shelf. I would worry with cancellation that staff would cancel the item in Leap and then get busy and never remove it from the shelf.
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I think Authorized User must be a UDF field that your library has set up. I like the idea of having the option to have UDFs display in the header, but would not want this by default at our library.
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This is especially important with the addition of pickup areas in 7.5. We've gotten a lot of feedback from front-line staff that the pickup area information is not clearly visible on the hold slips and stuff gets mis-shelved.
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Adding myvoice to the other comments. Many of our patrons believe our catalog IS our website, and the only way to reach them online is to display information directly on the catalog homepage as this would allow.
You can SORT OF do this now by adding a custom PAC banner, but it is very finicky, especially if you are hosted, and requires your library to have someone able to make a graphic that fits Polaris's requirements and a sysadmin who can quickly access this area at short notice.
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This is especially important since email notifications account for 90+% of most libraries' notifications, and with the way Polaris is set up, they are practically the only channel for almost due/autorenew messages, so even patrons who are signed up for a different notification method may still be receiving email messages with the incorrect name on them.
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The inconsistency of this drives me crazy. Why can you search for 'digital but not physical books' but not for 'physical but not digital books'? It doesn't make sense, and more importantly, most of our ebook users are searching our ebook platforms (Libby, hoopla, etc.), not the PAC. The patrons using the PAC are specifically there because they want physical items.
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This functionality will be included when we deliver the MEEP idea winner for this first cycle.
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This would have saved us a lot of grief when we launched LX Starter. We had lots of configuration issues between our City email server and Amazon SES, resulting in many notifications being marked as spam by receiving email servers and never delivered. If we had had the ability to test instead of having to go live with real notices to patrons, we wouldn't have had the interruption in service to patrons.
The issues also made our staff really pessimistic and cynical about LX Starter and Vega because that was their first experience with the platform. I told them how we were switching over to this great new service but what it did, from their perspective, was basically break email notices for a couple of months.
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This is vital. Our biggest issue with LX Starter has been message delivery, so being able to test the look of messages is less important than being able to test the delivery process.
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Well, that's a horrible situation I wasn't aware of. Thanks so much for posting this! We really need a fix for this. Nothing is more frustrating to patrons than this kind of situation ("you've given us the correct information, possibly more than once, but we can't use it").
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Updating this to under review. We have plans to add an "alert note" on patron records but need to evaluate on items. I accidently updated the wrong idea (between the two).
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This would be SO helpful! There are a ton of things this would be useful for. I know blocking notes are supposed to fulfill this function, but I don't want my patron to not be able to borrow ebooks or renew their checked out items because we have an item of theirs in the lost and found, we need them to sign a form, etc. We end up putting that info in non-blocking notes instead and staff just don't look at it and the issue stays unresolved for months.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Emma Olmstead-Rumsey
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This would be a nice feature! Especially for damaged/missing parts situations where the automatic notification can't be detailed enough to be informative to a patron, it's more efficient just to call them then to send the automatic notice and wait for them to call back. It'd be great if these calls could be noted in the same place as other notifications.
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Agreed. While the majority of our patrons really like auto-renewal, we regularly receive requests from patrons who want to opt out.