Make display of all 5xx note fields the default in Summon in the Catalog Detail page, results screen and elsewhere. These fields already appear in Primo, with various labels (General note for 500, Language note for 546, Awards note for 586, Bibliography for 504, etc.). With these omitted from Summon, patrons are missing vital, helpful information from bibliographic records, such as: accessibility features for patrons with disabilities (532, 546); detailed language information--not just the languages themselves, but whether they’re for subtitles, described video, certain articles in anthologies, etc. (546); awards won for picture books, Academy Award winning movies, etc. (586); translation information (500, 546); DVD special features (500); “based on” information for movies, graphic novel or mass market adaptations, etc. (500); issues included in collections (vital for graphic novel reader continuity) (500); target audience for reading levels, content advisories, etc. (521); cast and crew of movies (511/508); dissertation information (502); open access information (506); whether bibliographies are included (504); and so on. We include this information when creating bibliographic records to be helpful to patrons; having it invisible in Summon is counterproductive.

We would like to suggest ExLibris to enhance in Summon results page by displaying all fulltext links subscribed in the knowledgebase. Having only one fulltext link available when there are multiple sources available to choose from can help maximize the use of the library’s resources and most important offer users a solution when the 1st link presented doesn’t work. EJP is already doing this.

It’s kind of a problem also. The situation happened this week when the Proquest research platform was experiencing connectivity issue and performed a temporary maintenance. Because Proquest fulltext links are direct linking, the user was not presented with other options and was directed to the error message window (see screenshot attached). We understand that Summon will go to 360 Link to provide additional resources when it goes through the resolver, but not with direct link resources. Also, most users (specially first year students) will not think of checking the e-journal portal.
We hope you will consider this request and help us improve users experience in using Summon.

Make display of all subfields from the 300 physical description field the default in Summon for all types of materials, in the catalog detail screen, results screens, and elsewhere. Currently, Summon only displays 300 MARC physical description information for books in search results and catalog detail pages; and even for books, only subfield “a” (pagination) is included. This means that patrons can’t see information like: number of DVDs or CDs in a set; whether movies are in black-and-white or color; playing time of DVDs or CDs; any accompanying materials like booklets with DVDs or CDs in book-and-CD sets; types and amount of illustrations; etc. This makes selection of desired materials more difficult for patrons. Please map and display subfields, including $a, $b, $c, $e, $f, $g, $3 from the 300 field.

In Summon, series titles and volume numbers are not being displayed for publications from monographic series with content type such as ebook, book, and Government Document. To display the series title and volume number, users have to click on the Preview link.

Users often identify or search series publications by the title and number of the series and not necessarily by the title of the monograph publication within that series. This is particularly true with grey literature or when a publication is being published annually or periodically under the same or very similar title. By not showing this information on the result page, we are not providing adequate access to these publications thereby inadvertently misleading our users.

We would like to see the series title (Series field) and the volume number (Volume field) displayed on the result page beside and before the year of publication (Date field) when the publication belongs to a series.

Please take information for the “Language” field in Summon and the Alma Display Services page from the 546 language note bibliographic field, instead of the 041 language codes bibliographic field. The 546 language note contains more detailed information about the languages included in a resource than the 041, including whether they’re for subtitles, described video, summaries as opposed to full articles, translations, etc. The current information in the Language display is not helpful for patrons. Not only does it not give details about how the languages appear in a resource, the displayed languages aren’t consistent with the language of the rest of the bibliographic description.