I want to re-stress -- the ability to distinguish print/electronic feature should extend to all content types, notably, journals and ejournals should work the same as books.

Staff know how to limit to our library catalog and then limit to our library location, and that pulls up print books. But I agree with others who have commented on this idea that it is not an intuitive process or at least one that would occur to our library patrons.

Yes, this comes up a lot at our institution, and it would increase usability for our students (and staff) to request print versus electronic for all content types. Limiting by location as Suzy mentioned might be useful for library staff as a work around for this issue, but I doubt most students and even faculty would think to do this, which is why it is necessary to fix.

Another thought, the ability to map to multiple content types may be a way to resolve this. We have print and electronic on the same record in our ILS and need to choose whether to map to eBook or Book because Summon can only handle one -- this inhibits the ability to separate them when searching too. Also want to re-stress -- the ability to distinguish print/electronic feature should extend to all content types.

I agree. Users want to know what we actually have in the library. I've been dealing with this by using the location filter but students don't know to do that, so something more obvious would be helpful.

I also want to upvote Nicole Trujillo's comment: "I would like to add support to the comment "That said, I would like to be able to do this more generally for all content types." We have a music library and print scores are very important to our users. Maybe investigate a more general "print only" filter at the top?"

I get asked for this constantly by our reference team.

Agreed. This is one question we get asked by students a lot.

Very much needed enhancement.

Our users would be strongly in favour of this enhancement to Summon

I would like to add support to the comment "That said, I would like to be able to do this more generally for all content types." We have a music library and print scores are very important to our users. Maybe investigate a more general "print only" filter at the top?

The inability to filter a search from just print or e-book is SHOCKING (caps intended). An e-book and a book are as different as apples and oranges and should be recognized as such.

Based on feedback from our users, we would strongly support an enhancement to Summon that would provide the ability to separate books and ebooks when searching.

Stephen O'Connor
University of Rochester Libraries

We do the same as Suzanne mentioned - select book / ebook and then physical library locations.

This would be very much appreciated!

It would be good to be able to have the option of the red x / green tick for the Refine your search options - which includes full text. So if you selected books/ebooks, and then chose the red x against "Full text", theoretically that would show only print items (or at least only records that contained a print item, even if they were also merged with an ebook item).

That said, I would like to be able to do this more generally for all content types. So rather than having separate content types for "video recording" and "video streaming" you would just have video and then the option for physical or online. This could apply to books, music, audio and more. I guess when RDF is in place .... one can dream.

This may be to do with the way we've mapped our MARC records, but we exclude ebooks by selecting our library locations. See our custom search box at https://www.griffith.edu.au/library and select the Books radio button. There is the pull down for print only, electronic only and both.