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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December 11, 2017

• Fixed a bug where terms of use link was broken due to special character before ellipsis in record 8637394

December 5, 2017

• Fixed bugs in left-anchored searching

November 28, 2017

• Fixed formatting for Info button on item view
• Fixed a bug where in specific cases, Info button pop-up on item view shows “Full Record” link twice
• Fixed a bug where the ScanIt form was not being pre-populated
• Added ‘citation only’ to citation online type in summon bento
• In search results, only display the first edition statement when there are more than one
• Fixed a bug where uniform title CTS performed title/title search when title/author search was needed
• Fixed a bug where the “note” did not appear to be included in the Relais request when the request is submitted via the catalog
• Added additional Piwik tracking links
• Improved alignment of mobile form elements on Borrow Direct request form
• Fixed a bug where request button was not working for certain library annex requests for serials
• Requesting ScanIt or Interlibrary Loan from the “Other options” request table goes directly to ILLiad instead of loading an intermediary page
• Accessibility improvements
• Added an RSS feed link to search results
• Fixed advanced search bugs
• Fixed a bug where the title of “Groton N.Y.” appears as “Groton N.Y” due to stripping of trailing punctuation
• Changes to Voyager now show up even more quickly in Blacklight
• Updated Borrow Direct success/failure message, and disabled Borrow Direct button after it has been clicked

October 18, 2017

• Fixed a bug where non-Borrow Direct locations were listed as pick-up locations
• Fixed a bug where selecting “Any” in an Advanced Search did an “and” instead of “or”

October 5, 2017

• Fixed a bug where Feedback link on search results was not working

October 3, 2017

• Optimized CSS and Javascript based on Google page speed recommendations
• Updated home page text
• Added advanced search links to single search interface
• Integrated browse options into simple search box
• Removed Browse link from header; added Ask a Librarian link
• Added a ‘Menu’ label to the hamburger icon in the Cornell bar
• Improved the Table of Contents display for long values
• Fixed a bug where changing the number of rows from 1 to 2 when modifying an advanced search threw an error
• Fixed a bug where removing a facet from a one-line advanced search threw an error
• Added display limit of 500 records for export
• Added SAML sign-in
• Added edition and description to all fields search
• Fixed a bug where some special characters displayed as boxes in Chrome on Mac

August 10, 2017

• Added boost for exact title matches with or without leading articles
• Added government identification numbers to publisher number/other identifier search
• Made sure the word “works” is stemmed to “work”
• Added language-specific articles
• “Thor” no longer stems to “the”
• Fixed a bug where simple search isn’t blocking stemming on phrase searches
• Added boost for exact title matches with or without subtitle in search
• Adjust unquoted search manipulation for all-fields, title, and publisher number searches, from all of bento, single, and advanced search
• Fixed a bug where begins-with search thinks the word “and” starts with an “e”
• Removed publication information from linking title fields from title search

August 9, 2017

• Fixed a bug where print availability didn’t display on search results if it was also available online
• Updated Databases Terms of Use code to match Catalog Terms of Use code
• Changed style of non-clickable availability status labels
• Removed links to Classic Catalog and updated home page text
• Moved availability box up on the page
• Added Borrow Direct and Interlibrary Loan links in the header; made Ask and Chat links in the footer more prominent
• Added a Cornell-wide Web Accessibility Help link in the footer
• Removed location/access link titles from “Other forms” box on item view; added “At the Library” to denote print holdings, and updated the style of the Online label
• Removed slight indentation for titles on Digital Collections page
• Fixed a bug where journal title searches displayed as title in the constraint on the results page
• Fixed a bug where special characters were displaying incorrectly in text messages
• Fixed a bug where call number texting failed for many foreign languages
• Removed publication information from linking title fields from title search
• Citations
  • Improved Zotero functionality
  • Improved display of suggested citations
  • Added Council of Science Editors and MLA 8th edition
  • Fixed a bug where corporate authors did not display in citations
• Advanced Search
  • Fixed a bug where author field labeling was inconsistent between Advanced Search create and Advanced Search modify
  • Fixed a bug where removing a facet from Advanced Search threw an error
• Single Search
  • Removed Library Websites box
  • Added Digital Collections and Research Guides boxes
  • Articles & Full Text now searches all formats except newspaper articles

June 26, 2017

• Switched to new, more powerful Piwik installation
• Updated turnaround time for ScanIt service
• Prepped for move to AWS
• Suppressed bound-with link when duplicated by empty items
• Improvements to Borrow Direct connection – timeout; test and production

May 3, 2017

• Update routes for Terms of Use links
• Add links to separate Terms of Use
• Fixed a bug where a colon in a search term through an error
• Add some timing changes
• Updated locations.yml

April 10, 2017

• Single search – only do array work on formats that are arrays
• Fixed bug where display of space craft imaging facility records suppresses request button for other libraries

April 6, 2017

• Added a tooltip to Text link on item view
• Call number search now sorts by call number by default
• Fixed a bug where removing a facet from an advanced search turns OR into AND
• Added spinner to requests interface
• Fixed a bug where only the first page of items are exported when paginating through selected items
• Fixed a bug where OCLC links to the catalog from Worldcat weren’t working
• Now including referring URL from catalog or single search when using Feedback form submissions
• Delineated reserve and other special volumes in the volume select list
• Added accessibility label to publication date slider
• Fixed a bug where holdings public note was not displayed on online holdings
• Fixed item view page width so it isn’t wider than the browser window on small mobile devices
• Fixed alignment of titles in Databases
• Dispelled confusion over whether item 9861849 was in process or checked out (hopefully)
• Fixed a bug where including “%” in a single search fails in Catalog book results
• Moved covers to the right and removed icon covers on search results and item view
• Fixed a bug where the request system wasn’t allowing requests for items whose status was unavailable, while supplemental material was available
• Fixed a bug where entering a space as a term in Advanced Search threw an error
• Fixed a bug where call number simple searches wouldn’t sort
• Updated home page text to include estimated retirement date of Classic Catalog
• Updated search box label in Databases
• Added analytics tracking for single search results
• Added left-anchored search modification to support word truncation
• Fixed bug where begins-with boosting of general title search failed on quoted search
• Added boosting for exact title matches with or without leading articles
• Added Japanese (and possibly Korean) search improvements with new character filter in Solr
• Fixed a bug where searching for “QA76.” produced no results
• Fixed a bug where bib call numbers were not reflected in search
• Fixed a bug where language flags were not being displayed (or likely faceted)

March 1, 2017

• Fixed a bug where previous/next links on an item view were not stepping through results correctly
• Fixed a bug where number of results per page was not preserved when viewing other pages
• Fixed a bug where a call number search was not sorting by call number

February 9, 2017

• Upgraded to Solr6
• Added new display fields: Indexes, Instrumentation, Thesis
• Implemented “begins with” searching
• Reduced stemming behavior
• Enabled donor searching by book plate code
• Normalization for spacing differences in facets
• Fixed a bug where 555 label doesn’t match Classic Catalog
• Initial articles not used for sorting titles in browse
• Addition of LCGFT terms to the genre facet
• Fixed bug where titles with diacritics were incorrectly sorting

January 24, 2017

• Fixed a bug where selecting Recall on a multi-volume item sent you into a volume-select loop
• Changed the font for call number in the Availability box on the item view, for easier reading
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the creation of “back to search” links for searches originating from single search
• Fixed a bug where sort order was not remembered when paginating through results
• Added a session timer prompt
• Added a non-circulating label for items at the Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility
• Fixed a bug where certain Aeon requests failed
• Added “skip to search results” for screen readers
• Added email protection through CUWebAuth
• Improved availability calls on search results – only fetch availability for items that are visible, and starting from the top of the page