OneSearch account now more accurately displays renewal eligibility
Following a comment from a campus, we were able to improve functionality in OneSearch by increasing patron account checks for renewability.* What does this mean for you? Items on loan that are not renewable (because they are on hold for another patron) now say so in your patron account!
Prior to this fix, all active loans displayed as “Renewable,” even if they were currently on hold for other patrons (and, thus, not eligible for renewal). This is a minor improvement but one whose effects will be felt immediately by those who borrow library items and rely on OneSearch to provide accurate renewal statuses in order to renew them.
* Interested in the technical details? They are outlined in this Ex Libris Knowledge Center article: Primo-Aleph API: Items that are not renewable are displayed as status “renewable”.
CUNY Academic Works Monthly Report: May 2017
During the month of May, CUNY Academic Works grew by 238 new items and 48,708 new downloads!
The five most downloaded works in May include:
- Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona
Series: Dissertations and Theses at the CUNY Graduate Center - Training a New Trick Using No-Reward markers: Effects on Dogs’ Performance and Stress Behaviors
Series: Student Theses at Hunter College - The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
Series: Publications and Research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice - New York City Drunk Driving After Uber
Series: Publications and Research at the CUNY Graduate Center - Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism
Series: Dissertations and Theses at the CUNY Graduate Center
Please note that, with one exception, May’s top downloads were all authored by CUNY students! This is no surprise. Students’ unpublished dissertations and theses have a higher per item download count over any other type of content. As of this date, nine schools collect dissertations and theses in CUNY Academic Works: Baruch College, City College of New York, College of Staten Island, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY School of Public Health, CUNY Graduate Center, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Queens College. Some of these schools started collections as part of a longstanding requirement (with an opt-out option), and others started their collections because a student requested it. Watch this space for more information about students works in CUNY Academic Works. In the meantime, you may be interested in reading Roxanne Shirazi’s recent post on the GC Library’s blog, Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2016-17.
New look for OneSearch!
If you haven’t already heard, OneSearch is getting a facelift! In the fall semester, OneSearch will have a brand new user interface following a CUNY-wide rollout in late August.
The librarians serving on the OLS Public Services Committee have been working on the new UI over the last few months and we are eager to share our work with you! If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at your college’s instance of the new OneSearch interface:
- Baruch College
- Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Bronx Community College
- Brooklyn College
- City College
- College of Staten Island
- CUNY Graduate Center
- CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
- CUNY School of Law
- Guttman Community College
- Hostos Community College
- Hunter College
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Kingsborough Community College
- LaGuardia Community College
- Lehman College
- Medgar Evers College
- New York City College of Technology
- Queens College
- Queensborough Community College
- York College
Take this opportunity to get familiar with the new design. Notice how the interface is cleaner and the searching experience calmer. Content is displayed only when you need it. We really think you’re going to love this new design!
If you find anything amiss, please get in touch with your library—who will, in turn, inform the local Public Services Committee representative. The summer months will be dedicated to refining the new design before it goes live on Friday, August 25, 2017.
