Student Success Working Group

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A built-in way to load patrons – 3
Making the booking module more robust – 2
Single Sign-on options – 2
Citation generation – 1
Fix existing accessibility errors – 1
Identifying items by grade level, reading level, interest level, etc. – 1
- Search by accelerated reading scores
- Search by local schemes
Improving Boolean search – 1
- documentation makes it sound not useful
- interface is really unintuitive
- existing bugs
- Contains Any on the advanced search screen
Integrated reserves system – 1
More precise indexing (many current issues are due to MODS indexing) – 1

Identifying student patrons by grade/year, major, or classroom/homeroom
Improved staff workflows
- In acquisitions: supporting periodical renewals, standing orders for monographic series, multi-part monographs
- In acquisitions: EDI periodicals orders
- Demand-driven acquisitions – maybe automated (EDI) ordering of added copies based on demand (e.g. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10924)
Improving single-day circulations
Improving billing/coordination with bursar's office
API for information about library hours and closures
Improvements to inventory capabilities

Showing location of materials in ways other than call numbers and maps (e.g. getting audible directions on your phone)
Better integration with discovery layers
Leveraging authority data to improve search
Synonym tables rather than stemming
Multiple subject heading schemata
Improving display understanding (academic PAC flavor?)
Integrating ebook circulation (like the Overdrive integration for EbookCentral, Ebsco ebooks, etc.)
Integrating article search (e.g. include a new tab in the catalog that allows users to search the Ebsco Discovery Service API in the familiar Evergreen interface)
Modeling and/or enabling searching as strategic exploration
Integrating institutional repositories
Linked open data, library visibility on the Internet
Search for library resources using a map (e.g. https://github.com/sul-dlss/blacklight_heatmaps)
LTI integration with Canvas, Moodle, etc.
Does the Kid's OPAC work for primary school students?

notifying faculty + staff of new acquisitions in their field (e.g. https://github.com/lbcclib/newbooks)

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