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Beta Early Access & User Research Group

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If you are interested in giving more in-depth feedback and contributing to ideas before they reach beta, sign up for our user research group.

Cool new features, coming "sooner"

New Search, Browse, & Explore (betas coming this winter) which includes:

• Logos on patron interfaces
• "Most Popular" in Browse
• "Find more" in Browse
• Browse by Medium
• Sorting and filters in Browse
• Click on the title to see full details
• Shelf View in Search
• Mobile-friendly Search
• And more

TeachingBooks integration  (coming this winter)

Updated Security interface in the style of the Makeover (beta coming this winter)

Updated Calendars interface in the style of the Makeover (beta coming this winter)

Updated Utilities interface in the style of the Makeover (beta coming this winter)

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Cool new features, coming "later"

Enhanced email notices (more control over 'automatic' emails!)

New icon sets with our cute new icons~ (available this spring from our new support center...)

  More advanced selections for reports/labels

Textbooks Coming Due Items Notice & Overdue Items or Unpaid Charge Notice for TT

Updated Policies interface in the style of the Makeover

Special Status Copies report for TT, Recompute Due Date utility for TT

Customize Email Subjects for Report Notices

Reports for cross Library/Textbook Tracker information

Inventory Management for Textbook Tracker

Performance and reliability

 Depreciate Circulation Groups in Alexandria, as they are not being used

Add Circulation Groups to Textbook Tracker

Depreciate Routes

Re-engineered Admin (for self-hosted users) (coming this winter)

 Improved sessions (not have to log in as often)

Improved password security (coming this summer)

Ongoing (almost every release)

Enhanced operations (ongoing)

 UTF-8 support (character optimization) (ongoing)

Utility and report cleanup (fixing formatting, improving security, etc) (ongoing)

More on our list...

Operation summary report (see all saved operations)

New Researcher style (color theme)

Patron Reading Level report

Patron History report from Reports (run it for multiple patrons at once)

New Copy label report for 5x10 TALL

Hold Confirmation "Letter"

Hold Queue Summary report

Custom 3-column reports (make your own report)

Widget Builder & more widgets

Slideshow Builder, or, saving multiple Slideshows

We're also considering...

• Advanced Data Retention (options to keep old data)
• BestMARC for new titles
• Waivers
• A way to run favorite reports from command line, or explore buttons
• A way to consolidate grade table vs authority grades
• Alexandria Researcher iOS app
• A way to browse public saved lists
• A way to automatically change copy condition based on age etc.
• Textbook Tracker "Courses"
• Recommended Titles
• A way for patrons to request items (can do now with a google form...)