Several SearchWorks improvements were released today.
Better popups: Now you can move the Feedback form around by dragging its header, and copy/paste text from your search page into the form. The new popups are also used for Cite This, SMS/Text, and Librarian View.
Ctrl-click/Cmd-click: In some browser/OS combinations, the Ctrl-click or Cmd-click shortcut for opening links in a new tab was not working for titles in the search results list. This has been fixed.
SearchWorks is now updated on a nightly basis with records from Symphony. This is an improvement over the previous, manual process for updating SearchWorks on a weekly to biweekly basis, and gives patrons reliable access to the most recent additions to the the Libraries' collections. (Note that item availability information in both SearchWorks and Socrates shows an item's real time status information, not the item's availability from the previous night.)
A new panel on the resource detail displays items immediately adjacent to the current resource based on call number ordering, regardless of library, location or collection. Users can also browse the virtual shelf to "left" or "right" to see the next set of sequential records in either direction.
We have improved the display of item availability information. On the resource detail page, items are grouped by library and home location. Within each group, call numbers are sorted according to their type - serials in reverse chronological order; mutli-volume sets in ascending volume order; boxes/folders in ascending numerical order, and so on. Multiple copies of the same item are now shown individually.
Some issues reported by users have been addressed with today's update to SearchWorks.
SearchWorks includes the same resources as Socrates, but is slightly less current - usually within the range of a day to a week. Some on-order items may be visible in Socrates but not in SearchWorks, depending on their stage of processing. The circulation status shown in SearchWorks is current, based on a live lookup to the circulation system. We are working on increasing the frequency of updates and bringing in all on-order resources.
Next week, SearchWorks will be enhanced with two of the top priorities on our list: better display of availability status (is a resource available, checked out, on the shelves, pageable, etc.) and a new feature that enables browsing a virtual shelf.
SearchWorks now has an advanced search feature, along with some other enhancements and corrections.
The Google Books Preview button was not appearing in Internet Explorer (for books that have previews). This issue has been resolved.
We've replaced the core of SearchWorks with a new, better engine. This was done partly to give us a better foundation for future development, but there are some changes you'll notice right away.
