Ever wonder about the difference between the Coming Soon lists and the Featured Lists of Recently Ordered Items avaialble online? Here are the basics:
There are 2 places that patrons can access newly ordered items. I (Christine Kreger)maintain a Coming Soon area for books, DVD, and music:
These are updated once a month with select titles (5-10) starting on the first day of the month. Previous months are available using the More Coming Soon area. All of these materials link directly into the catalog so that patrons can place holds.
David Britt maintains the Featured Lists of Recently Ordered Items that you see when you are actually in the catalog (III) itself. His list is manually updated at the first of each month (give or take a day or 2) and lists everything in each category that was ordered within the previous month.
There is some crossover between the 2 lists…but patrons can decide if they want to search through everything in III…or take a peak at what collections thinks will be the most popular items (my lists).
At some point we would love to be able to update the lists more frequently...weekly or even daily...but since it is all a very manual process right now for both lists it will remain this way for the time being.
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