Re: Featured lists

[Rich Atkinson <richard dot atkinson at tufts dot edu>]

Our first attempt at making a practical use of the Featured Lists is for 
New Acqusitions lists for each of our five libraries.  On DRA, our old 
system, I had setup a program to create an HTML that pre-sorted by 
library, then material type, and then call number, with anchor links to 
each section.  This made the lists extremely easy to use for our staff, 
faculty and students.

I'm finding the limitations of the Featured List a little irksome in 
that I would like to have a search and/or sort feature that appeared on 
the Featured List page.  As mentioned by others, the only option 
currently available is to create a large number of small lists and use 
up lots of review file slots in Create List.

Am I missing something (we are very new to III - only live for three 
months now) or are several enhancements called for to make Featured List 
much more functional and user friendly?

Rich A.
Tufts University

Shirley Rais wrote:

> We put in a call regarding this because we used the "Locate" box to put in
> the first word of a title so we could get directly to that section of the
> alphabet.  The response was that this was removed due to an enhancement and
> we'd have to request a new enhancement to put it back.  It sounds like we
> had the same complaint only worded differently.  It's much harder to scroll
> through the list now.  IMHO a good enhancement would be for the Featured
> Lists to generate alphabetical links instead of page links.  I guess I don't
> have a clear understanding of what the "enhancement" was.
>
> Shirley Rais, Serials Librarian
> Loma Linda University Libraries
> 11072 Anderson St.
> Loma Linda, CA  92350-0001
>
> Phone: (909) 558-4583
> FAX: (909) 558-4919
> Srais at llu dot edu 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Leo O'Neill
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 5:56 AM
> To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: Featured lists
>
> Hi all,
>
> I used to be able to link to Specific parts of a featured list and thus
> create A-Z links/lists 
> to databases and electronic journals. I have been having dialogue with the
> helpdesk 
> and they have said no one else has complained about this functionality being
> removed 
> by Silver. Was I the only person using Featured lists in this way??
>
> Regards Leo
>
> Leo O'Neill
> Library Systems Manager
> University Of Luton, UK
> Tel: 01582 743404 (fax 489325)
> Leo.O'Neill at luton dot ac dot uk
>  
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Rich Atkinson
Tufts University Library Systems Manager
Phone: (617)627-5239
Fax: (617)627-3002
E-mail: richard dot atkinson at tufts dot edu