Tuesday, March 24, 2009

New Features in Goodwin Catalog

There was a system upgrade yesterday to our reQuest Goodwin Catalog. This update includes the following new features:

1. Creating Lists – any reQuest user will be able to create and view a list of items in reQuest they would like to read, have read, or would like to request through ILL by easily creating a password-protected account, then checking the items in reQuest that they would like to add to their account. Each user will be able to create multiple lists for different purposes.

2. New search indexes for Title and Subject searches:

- Title Begins With
- Title Exact
- Subject Begins With
- Subject Exact

These indexes will appear in the Advanced Search and Browse screens.

Soon after this upgrade takes place, there will be links from records in reQuest to Google Books (both preview-only and full-text, where available). This capability is close to being completed and we will send out another announcement as soon as we have an implementation date.

Source: ICONN

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