2024 Release Notes

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

CUL Discovery and Access