Catalog Upgrade Update

For the past several weeks our ILS Upgrade team has been working furiously to identify the essential features in our catalog and assign people to test them in the upgraded version of our software. You can see our project site here as well as the list of features we plan to test. We hope to have the initial round of testing completed by the end of July.

Here are the essential features we have identified for the patron catalog:

• Search Indexes work as expected
• Test how back button works after searching
• Make sure Full Bib Record looks correct and links work (including MARC view) both for regular and serial records
• Syndetics content is appearing ok
• LibraryThing Content appearing ok
• Advanced Search working
• Phrase Searching
• "New at the Library" still functional
• Wildcard searches
• MyLibrary Browse Books/Movies works
• See if Exclamation points in searches has been fixed
• Make sure all My Account functionality works
• Update Profile Info
• Renew checked out items
• Make Requests (including copy specific)
• Cancel Requests
• Suspend Requests
• View Fines/Blocks
• My List Functionality
• Ability to email lists
• Make sure the Spanish catalog translations transferred

Did we miss anything? Send me an email or post a comment and let me know.

In addition to core features, we are also exploring adding some additional enhancements. They include:

• Showing DVD cover images in the search results
• Adding more information for books in a series
• Adding a spellchecker

I'm very excited about the spellchecker option and hope to have more to share with you by next week.