Hello everyone
You may have noticed that there has been a change made to the search box on the Library home page with the catalogue search box removed.
This step was taken to declutter the page and to give one point of access, the multisearch search box, for searching library resources.
Access to the Library catalogue remains on this page, and on every page that you click through to, it is now just not as obvious as it was on the home page.
There are a number of access points e.g. course codes, that are not available via the multisearch option, and the search results for Archival material reads “Full text” however it will be the inventory that will be displayed listing the items, not the full text of the item. Library IT continue to work with Serials Solutions to improve the multisearch experience.
Please send in your feedback via CounterCulture as I am interested in how people are able to utilise, or not, this point of access.
Heather
Does the link need to say "Library Catalogue" rather than just "Catalogue"? (What other catalogue would it be?)
Deborah
One small suggestion to declutter the home page. There seem to be 2 home page links to a single Library contacts page – ‘Contacts’ and ‘Other library contacts’. Perhaps one could go?
Current word count of the home page seems to be 304 at present.
Dave Clemens
I wonder if it would be helpful for students to have a course code (High Demand) search on the library home-page as this is one of the features that MultiSearch doesn’t offer. Even though our High demand collection size is diminishing this search can be the most efficient way to find the right edition of textbooks. Many other academic libraries provide this link.
Janette