New OPAC

I've been working with the new OPAC for a while and noticed several things that I passed on to "the powers that be." Originally when I looked up Lewis, CS a list came up with all kinds of Lewis's, but CS was down the page a ways. When I clicked on CS Lewis at the top under Suggested Topics, it took me to a page-long biography that I had to scroll down before finding his titles. If, however, I searched CS Lewis, I went directly to his titles. I see that it has now been fixed!

Browsing was also problematic. I chose to browse by author and then alphabetically, but discovered that what came up was a list of authors organized by the number of titles they had and not necessarily alphabetically. I found that confusing and unhelpful. I see that has NOT been fixed: Dickens, Dixon, Dahl are the first 3 listed under the D's.

Nancy is also aware that there is no Spanish option for the OPAC at this point and I'm sure they will be addressing that as soon as they are able.

Today I put The Memory Keeper's Daughter on hold from Clifton. Like that very much; the ability to see what is where and choose (we had only the audio here). This will be a MAJOR improvement when all the kinks are worked out.

I will very much enjoy the Cart Feature both personally and professionally when it's up and running!

Survey is completed!

OPAC Holds #5 Completed

I tried both methods from home although I hadn't used the Book Bag method for holds before. With practice, I imagine that would be just as easy to use. If you normally pick up all your materials at one location, I feel the first option is fine. Did not know about the "View" and "Public Display" option that Betsey mentioned and had fun playing around with that too.