New York Times Bestsellers Lists

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This documentation describes how to create, update, and utilize New York Times Bestsellers lists in Pika.

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Basic Navigation and Configuration

The New York Times (NYT) Lists functionality for Pika relies on APIs from the New York Times and requires a unique patron account in the underlying ILS for connectivity to the New York Times APIs. The API connection is global per Pika site, meaning the API is available for all libraries belonging to a global Pika interface.

Access the NYT Lists configuration from the NY Times Lists option in the Pika Configuration menu.

Screenshot of the pika configuration menu highlighting the NY Times Lists

Create and Update NYT Lists

To create or update a NYT List, use the drop down list to choose the desired NYT list and the Create/Update List button.

Screenshot of the create or update NYT list function highlighting the create or update list button

The drop down list populates with all the NYT lists that are available from the API.  Each list will have the publication date associated. 

Please review the publication date to ensure you’re creating and using a recently published list. There are a good number of now-obsolete lists that are still available in the API but not recently updated.

NYT lists are published by the NYT on Sundays, but publication dates are for the upcoming Sunday (a week ahead).

Once you have created or updated a list, you will see success dialog and a link to the created or updated list.

The Create/Update List function creates or updates a public user list of all the items in the catalog that Pika can find relative to the NYT List from the API.

If the NYT list includes titles that cannot be found in the catalog, the titles will not appear in the list.

Any lists that have been created or updated will display as NYT – List Name. The Last Updated column is relative to the last time the list was updated.

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NYT Lists as Browse Categories

NYT Lists can be added as Browse Categories following the documentation for Creating a Browse Category from User List Admin Options.

Below are two examples of libraries using NYT Lists as browse categories.

 

 

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NYT Lists in Catalog Search Results

If your library includes public user lists in search results, the NYT Lists will be returned in search results.

Perform a keyword search for NYT and limit the format to Lists for easy access.

Clicking into a NYT List from the search results will deliver you to the list’s page, with all the expected features of a user list.

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