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6.2. Setting Up an OPAC Carousel
What a Cardinal library system performs to set up their local OPAC carousel
Step 1 - Go to the (library system) public OPAC and log in to My Account on production with the (staff or generic credentials) account. Then, choose the My Lists tab and create a new list.
Step 2 - Use the table below to fill out the information for your table. You can use whatever name you like, but the description must be exactly as is shown. Be sure to make your list(s) shareable so that patrons have permission to view it.
OPAC Carousel Types
- Descriptions are case sensitive and must be entered exactly as they appear below in the table.
- Shelving location and Status items can take arguments that let you filter results. Example: shelvinglocation Adult Fiction, Juvenile Non-Fiction
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Newly cataloged items, regardless of age of bib | newitems |
| Recently returned, last 100 items returned | recentreturned |
| Last 14 days, top 100 circulated titles | last14daytopcirc |
| Newest items on shelving locations | shelvinglocation shelfname1,shelfname2,shelfname3,...,... |
| Newest Items with a copy status | statusitems status1, status2,...,... |
| Customized list, static list of items | (no description needed) |
Step 3 - Then, once those lists are created, mouse over the name of the list, so that you can see the link show up in the bottom left of your browser. You're looking for a number following bbid= . Provide Cardinal staff with the bbid number of each of those lists. It will take up to 2 hours for the list to populate with data.
Example of link content : https://braswell.nccardinal.org/opac/myopac/lists?item_page=1;bbid= #######
Carousel I-Frames
You can embed your carousel in another site using an I-Frame. Submit a ticket through our ticketing system to let the team know you're interested and we will send you the code you need to embed in your website to use the carousel.
This example is from Brown uses this as it's address: https://brown.nccardinal.org/eg/opac/home?iframe=1&bbag=1503532. The iframe option tells Evergreen you only want to include the carousels in your page, the bbag option tells Evergreen which carousel you'd like to include.
Questions :
Does each system need to go in and create list content to get the carousel started?
Answer -No, within two hours the script will run, recognize the list with the proper description in it, and populate it based on the org unit of the user.
How often is the carousel populated with content?
Answer -Between the hours of 7am and 7pm, the content is updated every 2 hours.