Pika Release Notes 2016.12.0

Released Jan 5th, 2017

New Functionality

Materials Request Enhancements

• Allow filtering requests based on a list of ids

• Allow materials request users to be able to set an e-mail address and signature to be used when sending e-mails to patrons.  This allows direct replies to staff and custom signatures for a more personalized interaction.

• Allow the text at the top of the new request page to be customized so the library can convey additional information to patrons using the New Request Summary.

• Automatically delete closed requests after a certain number of days (1 year minimum)

• Allow the form for submitting and updating requests to be customized.

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• Recommended that you click on the Set Materials Requests Formats To Default to start.

• Field can be enabled or disabled, field can be renamed, and fields can be reorganized into different sections.  

• Allow the formats available for request to be customized.  

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• Recommended that you click on the Set Materials Formats To Default to start.  

• Administrators can add and remove formats and rename existing formats.

• Allow staff to rearrange the fields that are shown on the Manage Requests page

Archive Enhancements

• Allow collections to be displayed as a timeline.  Used first by Western State University for their historical photograph collection

• Allow browsing a collection with objects in the collection shown within a scrolling bar

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• Allow public to claim authorship for materials in the archive if desired by the library.

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• Link from materials in the physical catalog to the archive if the material exists in both locations.

• Allow content to be restricted based on IP address and login so only certain users can access the object.

• Update Acknowledgements section to follow all rules agreed to by the Digital Archive Committee

Other

• Added an image to Linked Data display so Google can display covers with structured data

• Improved determination of Large Print titles vs. regular books for AspenCat

Bug Fixes

• Correct updating real-time index information for Sierra item records over item 10000000

• Updated checksum calculation when saving MARC records to disk during record grouping to ensure that all records update properly

• More Info button links to information for edition if there is only a single edition.  Was linking to the Grouped Work always.

• Correct display of library hours when the library closes at midnight

Additional Work

• Begin setup of Santa Fe test system

• Launch Pine River Heritage Hub within the archive

• Salida launched new Bob Rush Collection

• Remove SMS opt-in for Marmot due to migration ShoutBomb

• Side load Lynda.com records for Telluride