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Good morning! Below is a list of upcoming updates that will be installed on Tuesday, March 2nd. Included in this update is the fix to "Did you mean" predictive text for both Shareit and Verso. Happy Friday! Jennifer Jennifer Cowan-Henderson Director of Planning and Development Tennessee State Library and Archives Office of Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett 403 7th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37243 p 615-741-1923 f 615-532-9904 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This electronic mail may be subject to the Tennessee Public Records Act, Tenn. Code Ann. §10-7-503 et seq. Any reply to this email may also be subject to this act. The mission of the Office of the Secretary of State is to exceed the expectations of our customers, the taxpayers, by operating at the highest levels of accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and accountability in a customer-centered environment. Secretary of State Social Media Links: www.facebook.com/TennesseeSecretaryofState<http://www.facebook.com/TennesseeSecretaryofState> www.facebook.com/TNStateLibraryArchives/timeline<http://www.facebook.com/TNStateLibraryArchives/timeline> All, I'm happy to announce a VERSO update release, scheduled for Tuesday March 2, 2021. We'll bring the system down at 10:00pm Pacific (7:00pm Eastern) - it should be back up within 10-15 minutes. If we run into issues, we may be unavailable a little longer. The following ticket (7134) is of particular interest, as it provides a visual indicator of the format of the title in PAC. These have been changed and updated to more legible icons than what had appeared in previous versions. Ticket/Case Description 7134 Format Icons are back on list view and full record screens. VERSO will now display format icons for 50+ distinct formats. These icons are derived from a combination of codes that pertain to the record in: * The MARC record Leader field * MARC 006 field (Material characteristics) * MARC 007 field (Physical Description) * MARC 008 field (Fixed length data elements) We will be posting a list of all formats and their derivations to the VERSO Support Documentation pages. You will see icons as shown below: List view - Merged: [cid:[log in to unmask]] List View - Clustered: [cid:[log in to unmask]] Full Record: [cid:[log in to unmask]] 67504 PAC - Staff placing hold on behalf of patron. The January release inadvertently dropped support for the "Current Patron" button on the PAC Holds Screen when staff was placing holds on behalf of patrons. This button has been restored. [cid:[log in to unmask]] 66132 Patron Status and Checkout screen / Patron Fines and Fees screen was not showing the Checkout Location when the item became lost because of the Remove Overdues report. "Removed Overdues" is a VERSO report that automatically changes overdue items to lost items after a library-selected number of days. This report is an alternative to the Overdue Notice approach. Although the item was being properly changed to Lost and the lost fee was correctly charged, VERSO was not including the original Checkout Location in the fines record in this report. This has now been addressed and the original Checkout location column will now be populated.. 63776 VERSO Lists - now will have distinct names when created as a guest. The workflow problem was as follows: * A person who is not logged in finds a record and clicks the "Add to List" button. * Since he/she is not logged in, the login prompt appears. * After login, a new list is created with today's date as the name. * The problem occurred when that person did this more than once. Two lists would be created with identical names: [cid:[log in to unmask]] What will happen now: The second and subsequent list names will be followed by a '+1', '+2', and so on, to keep them distinct. [cid:[log in to unmask]] 63508 VERSO reports - Reserve Listings Report - will now include the item call number for the item listed. Please note: Most reserves are placed on a title level at most VERSO libraries, meaning we do not know the specific item that will eventually satisfy the hold while it is still in the holds queue. That assignment is not made until the item is scanned at Checkin to actually satisfy the hold. Therefore, this new column will show the call number of the first associated item record attached to the title on hold. This item call number will almost always be correct but may vary according to library processing practices. 63468 Patron Status and Checkout - Email checkout receipts. Prior to this version, when a checkout receipt was sent by email, it carried the generic and uninformative subject of "Receipt". Several Libraries asked to be able to use their own subject line, such as "Receipt from Mapletown Library". This can now be done in Circ Admin / Receipts and Notice Configuration. This configurations appears about 2/3 of the way down that list. Outgoing checkout receipts can be configured with text of the library's choice: [cid:[log in to unmask]] If the library doesn't configure its own local value, the receipt subject will be changed as shown above. 67607 VERSO results - List View - Clustered arrangement. When the cover art to the left of the title was clicked, the system displayed the first full bibliographic record it found, whether it was the specific format that the patron desired or not. Corrected: now when a user clicks the cover art and there are two or more titles in the cluster, they will see a Brief Bib screen with a choice of formats to select from. 67531 Kids Catalog will now show the correct "Kids Catalog" header at the top of the Kids catalog screen. It had been incorrectly displaying the library's 'adult' catalog banner. 67686 A problem with "Did You Mean" not giving suggestions has been corrected.