We’re pleased to announce an enhancement related to eJournals/ePress titles provided by Bolinda.

eJournal (or ePress) titles provided by Bolinda can now be viewed and borrowed

Following Bolinda’s recent move to begin providing these new records, we have now implemented a change to a background process in Prism that enables them to be loaded and appear in the appropriate results sets. If you take this type of material from Bolinda, it will start to appear in Prism from now on.

Within Prism, the borrower can display the full record and then click on the Login to Request button to access the journal through BorrowBox, in the same way as eBooks and eAudiobooks. eJournal loans will also appear in My account under the eContent tab.

Changes to the admin console

We recently released the following changes to the Admin console:

• Further changes in preparation for Ad hoc notifications in Soprano
• Notification rules – all parameter values are now retained
• Notification rules – the date picker and scheduling 

Further changes in preparation for Ad hoc notifications in Soprano

Additional changes have been made to the Admin console in preparation for configuring Ad hoc notifications for ILL requests. These changes won’t impact anything already configured and can be ignored when using the Admin console while this work continues. When the changes to the Soprano interface are ready, they will be released in the usual way and we will explain how to set up and use the new feature.

Notification rules – all parameter values are now retained

Now when a rule is created or edited and several values need to be selected for a parameter, they can be chosen either one at a time or several at a time. The values already present when the Create or Update button is clicked are retained. If you find the parameter values still go missing, go into a browser to edit or create a rule and use CTRL SHIFT R to refresh the cache. Once the cache has been cleared it will work correctly.

Notification rules – the date picker and scheduling 

In the Scheduling section of a notification rule, the date picker can now be used to pick a date. The system shows the selected date and  won’t refresh the screen back to the tenancy list.

Release process has already been completed

Both sets of changes have already been implemented. If you take eJournals/ePress items from Bolinda then these will start to appear in search results from now on. The Admin console has also already been updated with the changes.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and include the following:

• Fix to saving EDS references in RIS format
• Fix to the display of magazine issues provided by BorrowBox
• Updated accessibility statement

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that to further enhance the security of the Prism and Admin Console web applications, we have made the following changes to the LIVE environment:

• TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have been deprecated.
• TLS 1.2 continues to be supported and is now the only protocol actively used for secure communications.

Please note that while TLS 1.2 was previously supported, we have now formally disabled older protocols in LIVE, to ensure a higher level of security. Your access to Prism through web browsers remains unchanged, and no action is required on your part.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview. This release includes the items below:

• Fix to saving EDS references in RIS format
• Fix to the display of magazine issues provided by BorrowBox
• Updated accessibility statement

Saving EDS references in RIS format

When a reference to an EDS journal article is saved in the RIS format, the Ref Type field now shows the correct format, i.e. for a journal article ‘TY = JOUR’ is displayed.

To save a reference in RIS format, click on the Save button beside a record in the search results, or on the full record:

Then choose ‘RIS‘ in the Save pop-up:

Fix to the display of magazine issues provided by BorrowBox

Where magazine or periodical issues are provided through BorrowBox, the Available as field on the full record is now populated with ‘eJournal‘.

Updated accessibility statement

The default accessibility statement within Prism has been updated to clarify some details in relation to non-compliance and the preparation statement.

Release procedure

Please review the preview version as early as possible, to familiarise yourself with the new functionality. Other functionality, extensions and styling will be unaffected by this change.

It is necessary to use the prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} URL to preview a release, even if you have your own host name for the live service.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to the live service on Tuesday 22nd October 2024.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and include the following:

• Strengthened security checks on the feedback form displayed after an error has occurred
• Further accessibility fixes
• Updated accessibility statement

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview. This release includes the items below:

• Strengthened security checks on the feedback form displayed after an error has occurred
• Further accessibility fixes
• Updated accessibility statement

Strengthened security checks on the feedback form displayed after an error has occurred

Additional security checks have been introduced into the Prism feedback form displayed when an error occurs. These include:

• A CAPTCHA check
• A check for a minimum of 5 characters entered in the feedback field
• Cross scripting checks

Further accessibility fixes

We have fixed some issues related to fields being incorrectly labelled or not labelled (WCAG 1.3.1. Info and Relationships and WCAG 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value) which may hinder assistive technologies’ ability to navigate the screen. Changes have been made on the following screens:

• On the full bib record screen for the summary of copies at sites, a navigation role=”tablist” has been added indicate that there could be more than one site listed.

• On pages where the search field is displayed, an aria-label has been added to the Local catalogue drop down.

• On the Build search screen an aria-label has been added for the main search field.

On the Login to My account page, the autocomplete attribute had been used incorrectly on the PIN field (WCAG 1.3.5 Identify input purpose). This has been fixed.

On the following pages, the ‘Prism’ link in the footer is now underlined (WCAG 1.4.1 Use of Color) and displays when zoomed in at 200% and 400% (WCAG 1.4.4 and WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow)

• Home page
• Search results page
• Full record page
• Login to My account page
• Advanced search page
• Accessibility page

On the following pages more of the breadcrumb displays when zoomed in at 200% (WCAG 1.4.4)

• Search results page
• On the full record page

Updated accessibility statement

The default accessibility statement within Prism has been updated to reflect the findings of the accessibility scan we have carried out.

Release procedure

Please review the preview version as early as possible, to familiarise yourself with the new functionality. Other functionality, extensions and styling will be unaffected by this change.

It is necessary to use the prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} URL to preview a release, even if you have your own host name for the live service.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to the live service on Thursday 29th August 2024.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and include the following:

• Accessibility fixes
• Updated accessibility statement

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview. This release includes the items below:

• Accessibility fixes
• Updated accessibility statement

Accessibility fixes

We have fixed a problem where the focus was lost when tabbing between the Search button and the Build search link (1 tab) on a number of pages (WCAG 2.4.7 Focus Visible).

Two issues with the contrast between the text and the background colour have been fixed (WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum)). Firstly, on the full record page the contrast has been increased on the ‘Expand All’ and ‘Collapse All’ links and the text now turns red when you hover over it.

In addition, on the Build search page the hints under the search fields have been made darker.

Updated accessibility statement

The default accessibility statement within Prism has been updated to reflect the Model accessibility statement provided by the UK government.

Release procedure

Please review the preview version as early as possible, to familiarise yourself with the new functionality. Other functionality, extensions and styling will be unaffected by this change.

It is necessary to use the prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} URL to preview a release, even if you have your own host name for the live service.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to the live service on Wednesday 31st July 2024.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and include the following:

Accessibility fix

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview. This release includes the item below:

Accessibility fix

With this release we have addressed an accessibility issue related to: Missing page titles (head metadata) (WCAG 2.4.2) on a number of pages. We’ll be releasing more changes to improve the accessibility of Prism and update the accessibility statement over the coming weeks.

Release procedure

Please review the preview version as early as possible, to familiarise yourself with the new functionality. Other functionality, extensions and styling will be unaffected by this change.

It is necessary to use the prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} URL to preview a release, even if you have your own host name for the live service.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to the live service on Thursday 18th July 2024.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).