New Titles

Every time you browse the catalog in Scriblio, the list appears sorted by most recently added item first. Every different browse is a new title list.

There are many ways to view new titles in a Scriblio catalog and you can see lists of new titles for every facet of the catalog including subject, date added and author. Each new titles list has its own RSS feed and can be subscribed to in the RSS reader of your choice.

If a user has entered Scriblio via a keyword search, they will be seeing their results listed by relevance and not date added. Changing from the former to the latter is an easy step. Here are some examples for viewing new titles in a Scriblio catalog.

starting from the main page


On the main page of a Scriblio catalog there is a Browse function. Entering the catalog via the browse link automatically shows the catalog sorted by most recently added first. The top of the page will generally say “browsing.” Note that this list is sorted by what has been recently added to the catalog, so older titles that are new to the system may top the list. The browse URL for Plymouth’s Lamson Library catalog is

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/browse/?scope=catalog

Using facets to limit the new titles list creates new titles lists for that specific facet. This link is an example for new titles by William Shakespeare.

starting from a keyword search


If a user enters the catalog via a keyword search, the first list of results they see will be sorted in relevance order. To switch to a new title order a user will have to shift from a keyword search to a subject search or one of the other available facets on the Scriblio sidebar. So, if a user entered the catalog by searching for aerospace, the results would be sorted by relevance. The URL for that page would be here

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/index.php?s=aerospace

Selecting a subject from the sidebar, in this case aerospace industries leads to another list of results combining the subject and the keyword term rankled for relevancy.

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/search/aerospace?subject=aerospace+industries

Removing the keyword takes the user to a new titles list for aerospace industries.

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/browse/?subject=aerospace+industries

That web address can be used as a bookmark to always see the new titles in the subject aerospace industries. This can be used for other facets. Here are some more examples

New titles with a publication date of 1965

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/browse/?pubyear=1965

New titles about the Silk Road

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/browse/?subject=silk+road

starting from a web address


Any list of new titles has a few features built into it. The web address for a new title list will continue to work and list a dymaically generated list of catalog entries on that topic or facet. If new titles have been added since the last time the page was loaded, they will appear at the top. Users can bookmark new title lists, any browse page in Scriblio, and come back to them to see what has changed.

For an even simpler approach, each new titles page has an RSS feed associated with it. When a users is viewing a list of new titles, an icon appears in their browser’s location bar. Clicking on that will allow to user to subscribe to that new title list using the RSS reader configured in their browser (for more about RSS feeds see “Using RSS feeds with Scriblio”). Here is an example of the subscription process for the list of titles by A. B. C. Whipple. If new titles by A. B. C. Whipple are added to the catalog, they will automatically show up in the RSS feed for that list.

plymouth screenshot show rss


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