Evergreen

batch searching

Bug #520839 reported by Jason Etheridge
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Thomas wrote: "I would like to see the possibility for batch searching, i.e. taking a list of titles or authors or whatever from a excel spreadsheet or csv file or something and spitting out a report on the holdings.  This would only be for the advanced/librarian user."

It certainly sounds like a good idea to me. You can almost get there by using a file of item barcodes and importing them into a record bucket, and reporting on the bucket. I think we need other ways of populating record buckets, say, with a file of ISBN numbers, search terms, etc. Combine that with bucket entry notes, which exist in trunk, and that'd be very nice.

Tags: search
James Fournie (jfournie)
Changed in evergreen:
status: New → Triaged
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Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote :

Are we seeing this as only something that staff would be able to do? I'd like to see patrons have the ability to upload a batch of ISBNs into a List. Social sites like GoodReads and Google Books offer this service to their users, and I think some of our users would appreciate having this in the library catalog.

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Jane Sandberg (sandbergja) wrote :

This could be very helpful in an academic environment, both for patrons and staff. Student patrons could upload a list of textbook titles to see which are held by the Library. Staff could use this for collection development purposes, and for checking to see if any textbooks are already available through the Library as ebooks (saving students $$$).

Right now, we have round-about and time-intensive procedures for all of the above.

Jane Sandberg (sandbergja)
tags: added: search
Terran McCanna (tmccanna)
Changed in evergreen:
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote :

I can confirm that nothing like this currently exists, and it seems like a very useful feature to me.

Christine Burns (christine-burns)
tags: added: wishlist
Tiffany Little (tslittle)
tags: removed: wishlist
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Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote :

This would be a very useful enhancement with many uses for both library staff and patrons. Both may have lists of ISBNs (or other standard data) from various sources, and which could be uploaded as a batch and searched to identify which the library currently owns, or used to create a My List of recommended reading, etc.

Sites like Google Books and GoodReads have offered the ability to upload and search ISBNs for years, and it would be great if Evergreen could do the same.

I'm attaching screenshots showing this feature on Google Books and Goodreads for inspiration.

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Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote :
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Jennifer Weston (jweston) wrote :

+1 love this idea!

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Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u) wrote :

+1 we get requests for this

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Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8) wrote :

Just confirming that this is popular idea is still valid, and would be very useful enhancement for both library staff and patrons!

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