SPOT - Next Year
New Things For Next Year
Summit Web Pages
- It is still tough to find things
- User Experience Group
Problem Reporting
- Directly with OCLC Customer Services Division (CSD)
- Anya / Kyle will move out of screening
- When to report / not to list in general
Training Opportunities
- Do we need more
- Processing and packaging
- Que management
- Workflow analysis
- Trouble shooting tips
Work With OCLC
- Continue twice monthly calls
- Workflow improvements
- NRE User Group
- Documentation specialist
SPOT Circulation Staff Interface
- Help get libraries to full automation
- Staff Review clear out / no action
- Hold shelf time / integration
- Still can request changes to interface
SPOT User Experience
- Improving the Discovery Experience
- Know Item Searching Issues
- Availability Display Issues
- Looking at all the Current Discovery Tools
Summit Policy Task Force
- Hold Shelf Policy Short Loans
- AAR Policy
OCLC Changes - For August
Local or Group Discovery to take notice of “Banned-in-Circ”
flag returned by EZProxy and prevent request action when patron is banned.
“Your library has temporarily prevented you from placing new requests.
Please contact your library for details.”
Local or Group Discovery to display actual error message
returned by PatronRequestAPI rather than generic error message
“An error occurred while creating the request:
Requests cannot be made from this location as it is suspended.”
Editions - Very good news!
Request Form Additions
Publisher
Publication Date
ISBN
ISSN
OCLC Future Plans
Staff Interface
Single set of simple request searches regardless
if they’re a borrower or a lender
Users will be able to select which searches appear on simple search form
New “include only completed requests” option to the advanced request search form
Keyword searching for title searching
Patron Interface
Create new request form layouts:
- Video Recordings
- DVDs
- Video Games
- Music CDs
- Spoken Books
Based on the book/monograph form, but with field
labels that match the genre.
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