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Configuration options for the Catalog Enrichment section of the Library System and Library Location.


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Catalog Enrichment Configuration

Go to Pika Configuration and Library Systems from the left sidebar.  

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Click the Library Id number, or the Edit link to gain access to the Library Systems page.

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Click on the Catalog Enrichment tab.

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Show Standard Reviews

If the Show Standard Reviews are reviews either from option is enabled, Pika will display reviews from your enrichment provider (either Syndetics or Content Café).  These  Typical reviews include Publisher's Weekly, Booklist Review, and other sources. Standard reviews display under the heading ‘Published Reviews’ Published Reviews in the detail record view.

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Show GoodReads Reviews

If the Show GoodReads Reviews can be turned on or off.  If your library uses GoodReads, this might be a good option to toggle on option is enabled, Pika will display user generated reviews from the social media site GoodReads. GoodReads reviews display under the heading ‘Reviews Reviews from GoodReads’ GoodReads in the detail record view.

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GoodReads reviews may have features common in social media platforms including GIFs, images, and curse words. These will display in Pika if the GoodReads Reviews option is toggled on.

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Prefer Syndetics/Content Café Description

The Prefer Syndetics/Content Café Description option designates that Pika should prefer the description from your enrichment provider (either Syndetics or Content Café (whichever service your library subscribes to) when there is both a description from Syndetics/Content Café the enrichment provider and there is a 520 MARC record. Typically the academics prefer to use the description in the 520 and don’t turn this option on. Most public libraries toggle this option on.

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Show Similar Authors, Similar Titles

The Show Similar Authors, Show Similar Titles option will display readers advisory information from Novelist .  Enabling them will show similar titles and authors in the full record display.

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If the ‘Show Similar’ Show Similar options are toggled on for your library, Similar Series information from Novelist will also display in the full record display if the title is part of a series.

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Show Content Enrichment

The Show Content Enrichment (TOC, Excerpts, etc) are the option will display additional content enrichment such as table of contents , and excerpts that we get from from the enrichment provider (either Syndetics or Content Café depending on configuration) if provided.

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Enable User Ratings and Reviews

The Enable User Ratings are the ratings that are shown throughout the catalog. People generally rate things more than review them. Ratings are used to control a patron’s search suggestions.  The search suggestion comes from ratings and not just reading history, because reading history is not an indicator if you liked something.  You can allow patrons rate items without having them review them.

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Enable User Reviews allow option allows users to rate titles on a scale of one to five stars. If this option is enabled, ratings are displayed throughout the catalog.

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The Enable User Reviews option allows borrowers to add reviews to titles.  These

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The Ratings and Reviews options can be enabled independently from the ratings.  

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of other another. Typically, the Ratings option is more popular. If the Reviews option is enabled in conjunction with the Ratings option, users are prompted to leave a review when adding a rating to a title. Users can disable the review prompt and reenable it in the My Preferences section of the Account Settings.

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Hide Comments with Bad Words

If the Hide Comments with Bad Words is used when a patron uses a “bad” word in their comment.  If checked, this feature will completely remove the borrower review from the interface for everyone option is enabled, any borrower reviews with curse words will be hidden from the user reviews section for all users except the original poster.  If If this feature option is uncheckeddisabled, and a “bad” curse word is used in a review, that one curse word will be censored and an asterisk used to replace that word. This does not apply to GoodReads reviews.

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Enable User Lists

The Enable User Lists is used to allow option allows patrons to create their own lists.  Everyone is encouraged to turn this option on.

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user lists. For more information about user lists, please review the User Lists Guide documentation.

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Marmot staff recommends that all libraries enable the Enable User Lists option.

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Show Wikipedia Content

If the Show Wikipedia Content is shown in option is enabled, information from Wikipedia is displayed on the author page . The author has to have information on Wikipedia. When you click on the link for the author that information will show. 

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Here is an example of a link to the author that will show Wikipedia Content.

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Once you click on the link, information about the author will display on the screen above the entry.

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for a given author if there is a Wikipedia entry for that author.

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Author’s name hyperlink accesses the author page

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Example of Wikipedia information displayed in Pika

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