We are transitioning to Koha this month. I am having some concerns about showing this new display to children and teaching them to quickly locate the entries for children on their topic, the library location, its status and call number. I am thinking that the call numbers and availability are not as visible as our last OPAC. They are almost hidden in parentheses after lots of other publisher information. The opportunity to limit to youth materials and our building are down below the first screen. I am told that much of this can't be changed. I am hoping that some of you who work with children or customers with limited English or limited library experience will share with me your techniques for teaching the use of this catalog. Thank you. Karen Brown Youth Services Manager Monterey Public Library 625 Pacific St. Monterey CA 93940 831-646-3744
Hi Karen! It sounds like you are talking about the search results view in the Opac(?). If you have someone at hand somewhat familiar with CSS and jQuery I’d say that it would be quite possible to move the information around to better suit your needs. What happens is basically that Koha generate the page as usual and delivers it to the user. When the page is loaded the local browser on the users computer then readjust the layout/look of the page when presenting it to the user. If you have a demo to work on you could ask any jQuery/javascript ninja to stick their scripts in the preference ”opacuserjs” and help you sort it out until it looks right. The good thing about this approach is that you don’t have to change anything in the actual Koha-parts. The parts you might want to move around or restyle looks like that classes ”results_summary availability” for the whole group of info or ”available” for the separate groups of info on available for loan/reference. Regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek 9 jun 2014 kl. 17:45 skrev Karen Brown <brownk@monterey.org>:
We are transitioning to Koha this month. I am having some concerns about showing this new display to children and teaching them to quickly locate the entries for children on their topic, the library location, its status and call number. I am thinking that the call numbers and availability are not as visible as our last OPAC. They are almost hidden in parentheses after lots of other publisher information. The opportunity to limit to youth materials and our building are down below the first screen. I am told that much of this can't be changed. I am hoping that some of you who work with children or customers with limited English or limited library experience will share with me your techniques for teaching the use of this catalog. Thank you.
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