Angular Catalog should include "Summary" Tab
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evergreen |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a sort of wishlist bug but also a regression, so I'm tagging it as both...
This request has come out of testing Evergreen 3.7.2 in preparation for our next upgrade.
When a record is pulled up in the Angular Catalog, there is very little content actually pertaining to the record. The record summary contains basic details such as Title, Author, and Published Date, but it's missing other useful/important information such as ISBN (LP Bug #1946777) and links to quickly search on Title and Author (LP Bug #1910446). In addition, it's missing information that's important for both catalogers and circ staff looking to place holds.
Right now, there is no way on the record itself to quickly see information such as physical description, (page counts, size, etc), summaries, other formats, etc.
Yes, the user can click on "Patron View", which is a great addition, but this opens the traditional catalog in a new tab, and anything the user does at this point - click on another format or subject, place a hold, etc - is done in the traditional catalog.
It also adds another step for catalogers to check to make sure they are attaching to the right record. They have three options, but none of them are great:
- See physicals descriptions on the Search Results page.
- Open up MARC View/Edit.
- Open up Patron View.
I propose adding a new tab, (and making it the default/first tab) called "Quick Summary" or "Summary", that contains some of the information present in the traditional catalog.
- Record Details
-- Authors / Added Authors / Cast / Etc - all with links
-- ISBN
-- Physical Description
-- Publisher
-- Etc
- Content Descriptions
-- Notes
-- Summary
-- Etc
- Search for related items
-- By subjects with links
-- By genres with links
-- etc
- More Options
-- Other formats and editions with links
- Copies and Holds
-- Available and total copies at network/preferred library/chosen library/etc
-- Hold count
Essentially anything that appears in the summary in the OPAC or included under "More Details".
Perhaps the Electronic Resources links that appear in the Record Summary currently could also be brought down into this tab, decreasing the size of the Record Summary for records with many links.
The formatting of this page doesn't have to be fancy or formatted like in the OPAC. It just needs to simply list the information so that staff can stay in the Angular catalog and actually use it.
Changed in evergreen: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in evergreen: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jason Etheridge (phasefx) |
Changed in evergreen: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in evergreen: | |
assignee: | Mary Llewellyn (mllewell) → nobody |
assignee: | nobody → Galen Charlton (gmc) |
Changed in evergreen: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Attaching a quick mock-up. Most of this is copy and pasted from the OPAC so the formatting will probably look different, but this generally my idea.