Configure the order and save time
In 1898 Jacques Hadamard published a study which is arguably the first discovery of chaos. Well done him.
I however, am frustrated by chaos and can’t tolerate having to wade through unnecessary details when I’m in a hurry. For example, last year when I may or may not of forgot to book a table on Valentine's day, I really could of done without Google displaying all the restaurants that were too far away. However, I eventually found a table and my girlfriend was none the wiser – thank God.
In a similar vein, do you find it annoying/life threatening that the region you would like to borrow an item from is always at the bottom of the search results in Talis Source? Okay, it might not been life threatening (all of the time) but it can be a tad annoying. Luckily enough, it's a simple task to configure which regions are displayed and the order they are shown. For instance, if you’re a library in Scotland you may not always want to borrow a book from the South West, so you could specify that that region isn’t displayed or is displayed after all other regions.
For details how to configure the order regions are displayed in Talis Source please visit the Talis Source forum.
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It is also a tad annoying for those who are willing to display their holdings but wish to be 'last resource' for lending purposes. This is fine if your name happens to come late in the alphabet and your region is late in the alphabet. Yes I know there is a work around to this and that is what we use but there ought to be a better way than for us to tell a white lie in the notes box!
Posted by: Melanie Keady | January 23, 2007 09:01 AM