Release Notes for 03/05/2024

Pika Release Notes 2024.01.0

Deployed 3/06/2024

New Functionality

Accessibility Improvements (Minute 4:59)
- Alt text for images
  - Contact icons in footer

20 second wait for the prompt pop-up at the end of OPAC-mode and Masquerade-mode auto log outs
List widgets using tabs aria role “tab” set on the correct html element (<li>)
List widget author text now uses compliant color contrast
Keyboard Navigation - focusable elements highlight when active

VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) developed to inform libraries and governing bodies of our current accessibility status.
Improve searching for search terms containing some contractions missing the apostrophe (released previously in 2023.04.0) (Minute 6:29)
youre => you're
theyre => they're
arent => aren't
couldnt => couldn't
didnt => didn't
doesnt => doesn't
dont => don't
isnt => isn't
wasnt => wasn't
wouldnt => wouldn't

My Lists page - Sorting options for user lists (Minute 8:28)
- Sorting options: List Title, List Created date, Last Updated time

Marmot Digital Archive across multiple Pika sites (Minute 9:25)
- Display facet value for contributing library that isn’t a library of that Pika website

Rework Archive Usage page as a Usage by Namespace so that the page can work on any Pika site with the archive enabled (Minute 10:39)

Sierra Bibliographic data Extraction Clean-up (runs weekly) (Minute 11:42)
- Confirm bibs that are marked as deleted but still tied to a grouped work are in fact deleted in Sierra
- Then remove those bibs that are correctly marked as deleted but still are tied to a grouped work
For sites using the Marmot format determination, CD-ROMs will not be translated to the more generic “Software” and will instead have the format CD-ROM (Minute 12:33)

Fix format determination for Blu-rays with compatibility notes for Playstations in order to prevent them from being determined as game consoles (Minute 13:19)
Fix bug that prevented new lists from being created that had the same name as a list previously deleted by the user
Sierra - Fix wrong error message for changing pickup location for in-transit ILL item (Minute 16:00)
- Change Pickup Location button no longer displays when item is in-transit
- Other ILS have same logic for displaying button

Sierra - Reset Password now checks for password update in Sierra (Minute 14:54)
- Password Reset email will go to email address in Sierra patron account regardless of email in Pika database

Show digital archive Explore More bar on the first page of catalog search results. (Was showing only on second or later pages)
LION - Update screen scraping for importing user lists from Sierra classic OPAC
Horizon - Sign in doesn’t account for change in barcode, duplicate accounts created (Minute 17:20)
- HorizonROA driver now checks against Horizon patron ID for updated barcode
Clean up duplicate accounts in Pika for WCPL patrons
LION - Update screen scraping for importing user lists from Sierra classic OPAC

MLN1 server migration to Ubuntu (Minute 13:55)
- Archives
- Genealogy
- Fix permissions for MLN1 after server migration where genealogy images didn’t upload

Tested and verified offline circ handling for MLN1 Sierra upgrade in light of the patron password implementation
Tested and verified offline circ handling for MLN2 Sierra upgrade
Fixed search index backup process so that the complete index is backed up. This ensures that the index can be successfully restored when needed.
Set up Lafayette for Marmot Digital Archive (Test catalog only for now)
Update theme for LION Lyme Public Library (Minute 21:28)
Update logo and theme for LION library Meriden Public Library
Update logo for LION Wheeler Library
Add email address required to Grand County self registration form(Minute 21:47)
For Bemis self-registration, exclude bookmobile as home library branch option (Minute 21:60)

Meeting Date:

Tuesday, 2024, March 5

Documentation Type:

Release Notes

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Committees:

Discovery Committee