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Browsing bookshelves has long been a useful research technique as well as an activity many users enjoy. As larger and larger portions of our physical library materials migrate to offsite storage, having a browse-able virtual shelf organized by call number is a much-desired feature. This virtual shelf is not only browsable across locations, but includes digital and physical materials, interfiled.
I will talk about how we implemented nearby-on-shelf in Blacklight at Stanford:
# the code to get shelfkeys out of call numbers (code available in solrmarc),
'''Abstract:'''
Even though we’d like to get basic searches working so well that advanced search wouldn’t be necessary, there will always be a small set of users that want it, and there will always be some library searching needs that basic searching can’t serve. Our user interface designer was dissatisfied with many aspects of advanced search as currently available in most library discovery software; the form she designed was excellent but challenging to implement. See http://searchworks.stanford.edu/advanced
We’ll share details of how we implemented Advanced Search in Blacklight:
# thoughtfully designed form for the user (NOT done by techies!)
