As a follow up to the post a few weeks ago about what would be affected by the upgrade to the catalog software, here’s where we are now.
Searching in the Baruch catalog
Searches can now be run from the yellow search bar, from the search widgets some of you have added to research guides, or by going directly to the catalog URL.
Searching in the union catalog
In the union view, if more than one library owns a book, you’ll see each copy listed as separate item in your search (previously, those common holdings would be aggregated together in one record display). This problem should be sorted out soon.
Renewals in the catalog
Fine
Requests in the catalog
Fine
My Account feature in the catalog
Fine (and there’s a new design for the login page)
Self-checkout machine
Fine
Laptops-to-Go kiosk
Fine
New URL for the catalog
The catalog now has a new URL: http://libsearch.cuny.edu/F
If for some reason have found yourself unable to view the results of a search you tried running from the Books search on the library’s website, you probably need to go back to the library home page and then refresh the page (just hit the F5 button on the keyboard when you’re back to the library home page). That will clear the browser cache of the older version of the page and load the updated version of the page that has the updated Books search code.