GetTeXt Menu Updates
Our GetText menu targets (the links to the full text, library catalog, etc.) are incredibly confusing. In talking with one of our insightful student workers at the reference desk today about this confusion, I realized that if I split our z39.50 library catalog target in two (one for ISBN look-up and one for ISSN look-up), I could simplify the language used to describe the target.
So, this message that once had to serve for both books and journals:
gets split into a message for journals (still a confusing message as the z39.50 search is linking at an ISSN level and isn’t checking whether we actually have holdings or not, but moving in the right direction):
The journal target will also always display with the ILLiad link as many times the journal article requested will either be prior or after our actual holdings.
and a new target for books:
Next on my list…manipulating Wiley journal use statistics.
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