When performing an advanced search for physical items, holdings or titles, then selecting Holdings: permanent physical location equals, the last box has a drop-down list of all locations to select from, grouped by library.

On the Items search, when typing into the text box the location list filters by library so that you can then select from the locations within the library. However, when doing the same for a holdings or title search, the list filters by location.

This is inconvenient for us as there are a number of location names that feature across all libraries, e.g. Main Lending, Reference. It would be better for the search to filter by library then to browse the locations once there, or, at least for the library name to also be included in the filtering.

This change for physical titles and holdings is part of the new search results UI. We feel it was an unnecessary and inconvenient change and would like for it to change back to match the behaviour of the search when done at item level. (Physical item level UI has not yet been updated so currently retains the preferred behaviour.)