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 17, 2019

• Updated Solr from 6 to 8 and moved to AWS

November 21, 2019

• Advanced Search
  • Fixed a bug where “begins with” and “Journal Title” searches yielded no results
  • Improved results for partially quoted “all” searches
  • Removed redundancies in templates
  • Fixed UTF-8 error
• My Account
  • Improved error handling for when net IDs are not found; display flash message
  • Added Borrow Direct and Interlibrary Loan labels for checked out items
• Requests
  • Update Mann special delivery method to reflect new Voyager location codes
• Tightened up spacing and improve readability of online links in the availability box
• Restored missing single search template
• Added a check for nil value when there is a facet parameter
• Removed Internet Explorer 9 alert
• Bootstrap 4/Blacklight 7 SASS clean-up
• Accessibility improvements
• Miscellaneous AppSignal bug fixes
• Updated ILS API code to remove control characters in the JSON it returns
• Prepared for moving Solr to AWS

October 21, 2019

• Fixed a bug where online records missing online links threw an error

October 18, 2019

• Fixed a bug preventing renewals through ILLiad

October 9, 2019

• Fixed a bug where online links were not displaying in Availability box
• Fixed a bug where Online message was displaying for print items in the Availability box
• Fixed title and journal search with only one token

September 25, 2019

• Fixed a bug where the available-for-purchase request page would not display
• Added DOI field to item view
• Added link back to catalog on Databases, My Account, Digital Collections and Single Search
• Fixed a bug where emailing a large number of items within Book Bag caused an error
• Re-fixed duplicate browse by call number buttons
• Various My Account bug fixes
• Fixed various nil errors in requests
• Fixed missing flash message partial
• Miscellaneous clean-up from August Blacklight 7/Bootstrap 4 upgrade

August 22, 2019

• Fixed a bug where Zotero was not saving records correctly
• Fixed My Account bugs
  • Improved renewal status and error message
  • Improve time out error for large collections of charged material

August 15, 2019

• Fixed various My Account bugs
  • Guard against charged items with no due date
  • Guard against empty renewable lookup hash
  • Increase timeout of Voyager API call
  • Rescue error in patron info lookup
  • Additional nil checks

August 13, 2019

• Fixed bugs relating to opensearch method and OCLC requests that resulted from the upgrade to Blacklight 7.

August 7, 2019

• Upgraded to Blacklight 7!
• Launched My Account in Blacklight catalog
• Switched from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery
• Added functionality to prepopulate the ILLiad form from a DOI
• Cleaned up display of Other Forms

June 24, 2019

• Improve color contrast for Info button and various icons

June 13, 2019

• Fixed a bug where requests were not working
• Changed colors for various elements (e.g. Feedback button, Online label, active pagination link) for better contrast and accessibility
• Small accessibility improvements for the requests interface

June 1, 2019

• Fixed a bug where only the first bound-with link displayed when there were multiple links in a holding
• Improved duplicate holdings display for HathiTrust items
• Created updates procedure for HathiTrust holdings
• Fixed a bug where the facet counts were incorrect in the modal pop-up windows
• Improved the appearance for “Available for the Library to purchase” items in call number browse
• Adjusted call number browse buttons in record view to use new Solr field identifying call numbers to link to
• Improved detection of on-order material to ensure they don’t appear as “Available”
• Accessibility improvements – made ‘skip to content’ links visible on focus, fixed link destination that did not exist on “about this search” pop-up
• Updated Advanced Search help text

April 3, 2019

• If you change the number of search results, that number is now remembered after you visit an item record.
• The select box is now removed in cases where a user has 500 items in Selected Items or Book Bag, since there is a 500 item limit. A message regarding this limitation displays  in its place.
• Suppressed “On-site use” note from non-circulating items at the Library Annex
• Fixed bugs in Advanced Search

March 21, 2019

• Fixed devise vulnerability
• Improved spacing for browse call number buttions when they wrap to multiple lines
• Accessibility improvements – added aria-labels to distinguish multiple “Online” links on a single page; added fieldset and legend to advanced search radio buttons

February 5, 2019

• Fixed quoted call number search, plus other search errors

January 24, 2019

• Fixed a bug where single-quoted strings were not handled correctly in advanced search
• Cleaned up display of array in holdings info for “Library has:”
• Improvements for 500 item limit in Book Bag – added tests, prevented crashing of Selected Items when more than 500 items are selected
• Added HathiTrust access links to approximately 60,000 records

January 16, 2019

• Fixed bug where various simple searches were not returning accurate results
• Added buttons to browse call numbers on item record
• Added filter by location on call number browse page
• Added small accessibility improvements: increase color contrast for links and red buttons, make bento “about this search” keyboard-accessible, make font size larger in “Looking for more” box and Librarian View link
• Made small wording change in the ‘clear selected items’ alert box