This website provides information about the development of Cornell University Library’s search interface and catalog. See the release notes below, or review the frequently asked questions.

Feedback or questions? Please email us at cul-dafeedback-l@cornell.edu

December 10, 2024

• Requests

  • Updated RSpec code infrastructure

  • Changed handling of ‘On order’ and ‘In process’ items to suppress FOLIO request options

  • Updated CSS styles

• Advanced Search

  • Fixed to allow multiple term queries to behave more consistently with simple search, e.g. “arctic animals” or “twentieth-century spain”

  • Fixed call number and journal title searches when “phrase” is selected

  • Users can now query multiple quoted phrases in a single query box in advanced search using the “all” or “any” options, e.g. “latin america” “south america”.

  • Fixed to retain quoted single-term phrase in advanced form after clicking “Modify advanced search”

  • Fixed a bug where search strings with apostrophes would be truncated after “Modifiy advanced search”

  • Fixed in advanced search form to ensure form element ids and labels match

• Single Search

  • Removed count from Libraries Worldwide link

  • Removed unused code related to obsolete EBSCO bento search methods.

• Removed quotes from author heading display on item record
• Removed Cite buttons from view and related code
• Removed “text a call number” feature

November 18, 2024

• Aeon
  • Bug Fix – for handling catalog items with location codes in ‘ranx’

November 13, 2024

• Aeon
  • Bug Fix – for handling/display of items that don’t have item records
  • Bug Fix – finding aid links on Request Item for Scanning & Reading Room request pages
  • Added a header title for the logon page

November 11, 2024

• Aeon
  • Request Item for Scanning now allows for more than 1 item at a time. Each item requested for a photoduplication request will create its own transaction, which is the same behavior as Reading Room requests.
  • Major cleanup and refactoring of Aeon code, introducing tests.
  • Remove one of the authentication screens to simplify the request process.
  • Updated branding for Aeon hosted pages, to prepare for the introduction of Kheel items.

September 24, 2024

• Updated fine information in My Account

August 27, 2024

• Changed boolean radio button to dropdown in Advanced Search form
• Added links to Libraries Worldwide and Advanced Search at the bottom of results screens
• Removed Google Analytics
• Updated Borrow Direct link in the Help menu
• Separated headings in the facet column for “Looking for more” and “Limit your search”
• Added ability to suppress book covers
• Prepped for FOLIO Quesnalia update
• Cleaned up Advanced Search
• Fixed horizontal alignment of pagination and sort elements in results

June 24, 2024

• Aeon
  • Fixed issue preventing certain requests from routing to ‘Awaiting Restriction Review’ queue
  • Fixed the missing fields bug seen on photoduplication (scan item) requests
  • Remove the tracking status changes on what patrons see on their web-based accounts
  • Fixed bug where books (with no volume information) requests were always going into ‘Awaiting User Review’ queue
  • Fixed bug for Aeon Requests, so that chronology field is now displayed when enumeration field is empty

May 31, 2024

• Fixed a bug where WorldCat Local links to the catalog were not working correctly after container deployment

May 22, 2024

• Switched production environment to containerized application

April 29, 2024

• Fixed a bug where the publication year facet could not be used without a query string
• Updated to cul-folio-edge library
• Prepared for FOLIO updates in Requests, My Account, and terms of use
• Fixed various Aeon bugs
• Removed unnecessary Advanced Search link from Advanced Search page

February 5, 2024

• Hid unmaintained subject terms from subject vocabularies we do not manage
• Fixed bug preventing donor search as phrase
• Fixed a bug where items listed in the Book Bag were not correctly linked to the item record
• Avoid an extra login click when emailing selected items
• Fixed a bug where Zotero had problems exporting non-Roman characters
• Fixed a bug in Librarian View
• Fixed a bug where citations were sometimes missing authors, editors, etc., due to repeated MARC tags
• Fixed a bug where the Digital Collections view was not working
• Enabled Interlibary Loan requests for Paged items
• Fixed a bug where multi-quoted searches in a selected field was searching all fields
• Fixed a bug: Don’t error when querying by quoted call number in advanced search
• Fixed a bug where quoted catalog searches were not returning similar results to phrase advanced searches
• Added “Repositories” jump link to single search results
• Changed work info and author popovers to links
• Made “Add to Book Bag” link more prominent when saving selected items to book bag
• Changed references from Borrow Direct to BorrowDirect in My Account, Requests, and the Help menu