Significant Improvements to the 'Browse Shelf List' Function Needed
The 'Browse Shelf List" function is essential for catalogers in our library and is extremely clunky and time-consuming to use. Proposing any (hopefully all) of the following changes:
Ability to view more results surrounding the exact search request.
Said in a different way, the ability to view the result in the middle of the results page, so as to be able to see a few of the results both before and after. This makes call number adjustment significantly easier, instead of always needing to click a back button and remember what the call number were on the page before.Ability to view shelf-list in Primo with one click.
Ability to actually be able to see the entire call number in the call number field (see screen shot with blue arrow).
If I need to type the call number by hand, or edit it at all, it is very difficult to see the entire thing or use this field if it cuts itself off.
Removal of the need to click into the call number field to search the shelf listing.
Ability to search the shelf list by call number that ignores sub-field labels.
It appears to me that “Browse Shelf Listing” is done only against the 050 field in a bib record and only against the subfield “a” in that 050 field. This greatly limits the usefulness of this tool.
Not to mention, call numbers can be found in 099 and 090 fields, requiring copy paste.
Thus, the only way to search the shelf list accurately is to copy and paste the call number into that tiny, tiny box, then edit out the $$a, $$b, $$h and so on. This is a painful experience on 20+ books a day.
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The Alma Browse Shelf Listing enhancements are completed.
This includes the following:
1. Author information will be displayed in the browse results, to assist in adding call number cutter for libraries that use author information for this.
2. Call number auto-population will also work for local 09X fields.
3. Read-only access was added, so that all users can now browse shelf listing (similar to browse bib and authority headings)
For more information please refer to the online help for Browse Shelf Listing.
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Ian
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To add 2 points:
1. Currently the browse shelf listing function of MD Editor requires us to manually copy the call number and paste it in the search box. This is too tedious!Please devise a function key to do this task while working on the bib record. Also this should be customizable as individual libraries record the local call numbers in different MARC fields (09x MARC fields).
2. The above-mentioned call number browsing should also allow browsing the local (IZ's) call number even though a record is shared with the NZ.
Currently, when editing an NZ bib record, the side-by-side Browse shelf listing function under MD Editor's Tools menu is disabled. (This side-by-side browsing is working properly if we are editing an IZ bib record with MD Editor.) We must first exit from the NZ bib record, and then choose Browse shelf listing function from the Alma menu, instead. And remember, we still need to copy and paste the call number into the search box!