Searching in Collection Discovery (New UI)
Searching within a collection (or across collections) would be extremely beneficial to the user experience.
This is especially true for digital collections that hold a large number of items, or have significant descriptive metadata in the item record.
Thank you for this suggestion. This was recently released both for Primo and PrimoVE.
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Margie Pembroke commented
I agree Steve this would be extremely useful functionality. having a search box in each individual collection would benefit the user experience as users would not need to browse and scroll through hundreds of records (in the case of our digital theses).
Margie Pembroke
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Sara Belmont commented
I'd like to expand upon this and suggest that adding the facets into the Collection Discovery UI would also be very beneficial. We have multiple collections set up for our Special Collections department, where each collection has anywhere from a few hundred items to thousands of items. Trying to browse in the current UI is virtually impossible.
The old UI would open the collection results up in the regular brief result display where you could facet. While not as visually appealing, it made searching the collection much more robust.