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August 5, 2008

My Lists

With the recent upgrade, we gained a new feature option in InfoSoup called "My Lists." This feature allows patrons to save multiple lists of materials they want to keep track of for later reference or check out. Cool, yes? Well... yes and no.

I configured My Lists in the staging version of InfoSoup (http://www.infosoup.org:2082/), where it is still active if you want to play around with it. However, the implementation is not intuitive and has some major issues, so much so that I don't feel we can release it to the public in its current state. One of the major problems is that clicking on any "start over" button once you've created or added to a list will log you out of your account. Not cool. After reading the listserv of the IUG, I can tell you that we're not alone in our concerns about making this feature public.

So, I guess I'd like to hear what y'all have to say about it. I'm not going to provide you any instructions on how to try it out (use the link above to get to staging), because I want to see if you think it's as clunky as I do. Go ahead and give it a try and post your comments here. I'm hoping that all the ruckus on the listserv will make III see that this was a poor implementation that needs to be fixed pronto, but that remains to be seen.

Thanks,
Beth

August 20, 2008

Scoping changes

We'd like to make a few changes to the scope names in Infosoup - to clarify the names and make them more consistent. The scopes are listed in the dropdown box on the first page of InfoSoup. Here are the proposed changes:

  • Change Audiobooks to Audiobooks (all formats)
  • Change Audiobooks MP3 to Audiobooks on CD MP3
    This should clarify these these are not downloadable MP3s
  • Change Audiobooks overdrive to Audiobooks WMA download
    Since there has been quite a bit of buzz about MP3's in Overdrive, this should allow us to make it clear titles are in which format.  (Currently, we have no MP3 downloadable audiobooks, but they may be coming.)
  • Change Music on CD & cassette to Music (all formats) 
  • Change Music overdrive to Music download
  • Add PC and console software (which would include video games and PC software on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs)
Comments?  We'd love to hear them!

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