New Catalog is Up!

Yesterday we started the upgrade for our integrated library system (ILS) which includes the catalog. While we are still working on upgrading some parts of the ILS, the catalog has been updated and most of the bugs squashed. To use it, visit http://catalog.mylibrary.us/.

New Features:

• Did You Mean
• Series Information is now located in the left column of the full bib record. See The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for an example.
• We also have some additional content that shows below the item information on the page. We are still playing with the formatting of both this content and the series content so this may change in the future.
• Searching using boolean operators has changed. See Eileen's Video Tutorial for more information
• Advanced Limits can now be removed without re-submitting a search. See Eileen's Video Tutorial for more information
• Staff and patrons can now email search results (before staff email addresses didn't work). After retrieving search results, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and enter a subject and your email address.
• More DVD images
• The Holds page now has a "Suspend Until" column. This lets you see which holds you have suspended and when they will reactivate.
• There is now a difference in notation between holds deleted in the public versus staff catalog interfaces.

For those of you that subscribed to HIP RSS feeds, that functionality isn't available yet but I expect it will be fixed in the next couple of days.