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Suspend
a Hold
This feature will allow users to temporarily suspend a
hold in the waiting list. The user’s position will continue to advance in the
queue while their hold is suspended, but the hold will not be filled. After the
suspension ends, the title will continue to advance until the hold becomes
available. If a user advances to the first position in the waiting list while
the hold is suspended, the system will skip ahead to fill the next available
hold.
At the time a user places a hold, the option
to ‘auto-checkout’ the title when it becomes available can be set. Users who
elect this option will receive a notification when their title is available
confirming that it has been checked out and can be found on their account
bookshelf. Users who do not select this option will follow the current hold
notification process.
Users who select this option but are unable to borrow the
title at the time it becomes available (because they have already reached their
maximum checkout limit, for example) will be sent the current hold notification
email and will have the full hold pickup period to make their checkout.
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Maturity
Settings
Two options will be added to the Account
Settings page that will allow users to customize their browsing and discovery
experience based on content maturity level:
1. The
ability to exclude certain content based on the maturity level (Juvenile, YA,
General, Adult). This will allow adult users to exclude titles for younger
readers and young readers to exclude adult-only titles from their experience.
More information how to use this setting is
available in this Help article: http://help.overdrive.com/customer/portal/articles/1492447.
2. The
option to “mask” all adult cover images with a basic cover image. This option
will be set to “No” by default. Libraries who would like to mask adult cover
images for all users by default can request to do so.
·
“Recommended
for you” collection
After a user signs in, a collection of
recommended titles will appear on the homepage. Recommended titles will be available
for checkout and suggested based on titles the user currently has checked out
or on hold. If a user does not have any checkouts or holds, this collection
will not appear.
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“And”
Boolean Searching
Based on partner feedback to improve search results,
default search behavior will change from “OR” to “AND.” Following this change,
the number of results returned for a search will likely be lower than with the
current behavior, but this change will meaningfully improve the relevancy of
the results.
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Bug
Fixes and Performance Improvements
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