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.
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July 7, 2025
- Advanced Search
Added Format and Publication Year Range facets to advanced search form
Layout improvements for facets in advanced search form, including sorting facet values by count
- Improved readability of facet count by adjusting alignment
Bug fix: Applied Publication Year facet values now display at top of search results
Fixed alignment of contraints and ‘modify advanced search’ button when there are numerous constraints
- Search
- Bug fix: Searching on item view page no longer breaks when previous search used publication year or advanced search form facets
- Requests
- Removed rush service on scan requests for RMC
- Removed ‘Existing digital file’ format on scan requests for Kheel
- My Account
- Prevented requested ILL articles from appearing
- Aeon
- Now redirecting to catalog when patrons log out of the Aeon web client
- Browse
Updated “Expanded view” link and other virtual browse links to use consistent URL encoding
Updated availability display in Call Number browse to include print locations in addition to online availability when both exist for a record
- Improved layout: formatting, spacing, LD4 data, show more/less styling
- Single Search
- Added a message for no results in Articles & Full Text bento box
- Suppressed links to currently unavailable table of contents server, tocview.library.cornell.edu
- Improved print styles
May 6, 2025
- Advanced search
- Added ability to select multiple language facets (e.g. English OR French)
Fixed edge case bug that prevented advanced searches with filters only and no query
- Fixed edge case bug where “Looking for more” box displayed twice when facets were removed
Advanced search form can be pre-populated from browse page queries
- Removed survey button
- My Account
- Fixed a bug causing duplicate entries for ILL requests already checked in to FOLIO
- Don’t show “renewal succeeded” flash message if individual renewals fail
- Single search
Removed special case handling of “AND”|”OR”|”NOT” in bento search
- Removed unused bento single search functionality
- Fixed search tip so it can be read by screen readers
- Aeon
Added the transaction date to the details pages
Fixed style, button layout for the requests made through the PUI that have subtitles
- Requests – disabled request button for on-reserve items
- Updated list of libraries in Availability dropdown in call number browse and virtual browse
- Numerous dependabot security updates
- Added search tip for Streaming Video databases category
- Accessibility – improved color contrast for search history labels
April 10, 2025
- Update wording on advanced search survey button
March 19, 2025
- Carry over query processing logic from simple and advanced search to catalog bento searches, fixes minor differences in catalog format counts between bento and simple/advanced searches
- Fixes broken quoted queries for libguides, repositories, and bento results in bento search
- Fixes secret menu bento features (single bento box searches and fixed bento box sort)
- Fixes catalog links in Library Holdings box of browse#info pages
- Displays library holding counts by format for Author-Title browse#info pages
- Fixes bug that prevented filtering by library in call number browse
- Fixed bug preventing multiple finding aids from appearing for records in item record and Aeon request pages
- Fixed bug that disabled request submit button
- Update path to Hours link in availability box
- Added survey button to Advanced Search
- Ares add-on was updated to update references to incorrect search fields that were used in the advanced search query. The add-on will now provide more accurate search results.
- Aeon
- Improve the user experience with “Saved” requests that are created once limits are exceeded (language & web form updates).
- Fix edge cases regarding specific rmc catalog items that were missing the ‘rmc’ in the location field (example: Wason Collection), are now properly created with the RMC site code (was incorrectly assigned to KHEEL before).
- Photoduplication requests now count toward the exceed limit
February 17, 2025
- Aeon
- Add support to request both a KHEEL item and an RMC item at the same time from the catalog
- Enforce request limit of 15 when items have an Annex location
- Changes to the web client:
- Edit Request and Clone Request forms have correct reading room options
- Add Schedule Appointment button and move Details button to the Actions drop down
- Add Site (Kheel/RMC) information to the main page
February 10, 2025
- Aeon
- Make the Aeon special requests buttons visible for Kheel items
- For scan requests, the special requests field can not accept new line characters, the fix replaces them
January 28, 2025
- Search
- Fixed a bug where facets LC subject facet URLs were not working
January 22, 2025
- Search
- Enhanced support for edge cases like special characters, “Title Begins With,” and facet selections
- Updated to use the same building login as advanced search, enabling multi-quoted searches and fixing edge case bugs
- Added flash error message instead of 500 error when viewing results page with >20,000th result
- Added date acquired sort option to results
- Google Books cover image can now be suppressed in search results for individual records
- Fixed a bug where link to Libraries Worldwide did not work on blank query or call number searches
- Advanced Search
- Basic search terms now carry over to advanced search
- My Account
- Fixed bug preventing ILLiad requests from appearing
- Specified old authentication method to fix broken ReShare account lookup
- Fixed typo on login page
- Removed dependency on external CGI script for ILLiad lookups by adding new ILL module using ILL API
- Updated the `authenticate` method to support both new and old token systems in FOLIO
- Aeon
Reading room and photoduplication requests now send a site code value to Aeon
- Fixed a routing error to the Aeon client by enforcing max character limits for citations and special request fields
- Updated form labels to match the Aeon-hosted form
- Bookmarks
- Fixed a bug where clicking on a selected item returned a 500 error
- Single Search
- Fixed Matomo click events
- Browse
- Added links to author-title search results from subject browse info pages with work heading type
- Cleaned up browse info page styles
- Accessibility
- Fixed empty heading on Terms of Use page linked from the Availability box
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