Summary of Updates

• Update to the Charles Library Event Space Reservation Form

• Added text to the WPVI video page

• Update to the Charles Library Exhibit Request Form

• Removed RefWorks link from the website homepage

• Removed RefWorks link from the Quick Links menu in the footer and the primary navigation

• Removed the '-' in EZborrow 

•  Added the ability to add a PDF attachment to a service page

• Updated “Website” search label to “Library Website”

• Updated full record page layout design, including:

  • Added anchored link to "Related Items" section

  • Flipped thumbnail display from left to right side

  • Updated font size for headings

  • Updated alignments and spacing of page sections and headings

  • Updated to include navigation bar when accessed directly by URL

  • Removed default thumbnail from article record pages

• Updated integration with EZBorrow to work fully with new Project Reshare platform, https://ezborrow.reshare.indexdata.com/ 

• Updated “Send to” options on full record pages and bookmarks page, including:

  • Removed RefWorks from the "Send to" options 

  • Updated RIS label under the “Send to” options to "RIS file (for Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote)"

• Updated styling for Citation pop-up window

• Updated Donor bookplate field, including: 

  • Added link to Donor bookplate display on full record page

  • Updated mapping to index MARC 541 field, incorporating into Alma workflows

• Updated "archival material" resource type to exclude dissertations/theses

• ​​Updated "journal/periodical" resource type to exclude integrating resources

• Added Articles resource type mapping for newsletter articles

• Moved Genre facet placement above Topic under “Limit your Search”

• Suppressed records with process type “Lost and Paid”

• Removed select e-resource providers/corporate names from creator facet (see full list) 

• Removed old article bookmarks text from Bookmarks page

• Fixed bug with “Genre” drop-down option in Advanced Search

• Fixed field errors with "Send to" emails 

• Disabled facet queries for opensearch api queries

• Added logging task for purchase order requests

While some loose ends are still being tied up, the IR Metadata team is very close to finalizing its first round of deliverables. Thank you to IR Metadata group chair Rachel Appel (Unlicensed) as well as group members Jasmine Clark Matthew Ducmanas Stefanie Ramsay (Unlicensed) Holly Tomren and Leanne Finnigan (Unlicensed) for all the work you’ve put into this!

These deliverables include, but aren’t limited to:

• A Metadata Application Profile (MAP).

• A defined syntax for each field in our Institutional Repository

• Clearly defined controlled vocabularies for those fields that need them.

• Crosswalks into DSpace from ProQuest ETD Administrator, Symplectic Elements, and CONTENTdm

Let’s take a closer look at just one of these deliverables, the MAP. Below we have the entry for just one field --Contributor (committee member) – as it’s described in the MAP:

It is wonderful to have the standards for each field defined in such detail. Once a 1.0 version of the MAP is finalized it will be made publicly available through Confluence.

Its been several months since we started using tul-web-support@temple.edu for web/search-related issues and a couple of months since we started using it for hardware-related issues. Generally, I have had a good feedback from library staff about this service. In the last year, approximately 675 issues have been reported by more than 70 individual staff members. We now average about 35 issues per week. These issues are resolve primarily by members of LTS and LTD, but several are also resolved by MADS and Acquisitions.