Library Extension

Your Library, Just a Click Away—Find Books and eBooks Faster!

December 22, 2020: 2020.1222.1

Other Recent Releases

New Features

  • Case LIB-42 Add support for bookmate.com as a 'library'
    This version of the Extension adds supports for bookmate.com, a subscription based site that provides access to digital ebooks. Subscribers can use the Library Extension to identify resources that are included in their bookmate.com subscription.

Improvements

  • Case LIB-129 Add support for automatically disabling 'retired' catalogs, especially RBDigital collections
    This version of the Extension adds supports for automatically disabling RBDigital catalogs that libraries have migrated away from. This will avoid the 'endless loop' that can be confusing and prevent subsequent results from being displayed properly
  • Case LIB-130 Add support for updated versions of the Atriuum catalog
    This version of the Extension adds supports for v3 of the Atriuum catalog, fixing in particular linking to the item pages at the library catalog
  • Digital catalogs were updated to utilize a common code path for filtering results
    This change involved some code reorganization to facilitate some upcoming changes for all catalogs. Currently, only digital catalogs return multiple results, but this change is part of a set of changes that will make it possible to return multiple results for all catalogs, rather than just return the first "best" match

Bug Fixes

  • Case LIB-123 Fix a problems that prevented some Overdrive results from being displayed as matches
    This version of the Extension fixes a problem that was impacting Overdrive catalogs that are running an older version of the platform (identified by the libraryreserve.com domain) return results that were not match being matched properly
  • Case LIB-124 Fix a problems that displayed incorrect availability numbers for Follett Discovery catalogs
    This version of the Extension fixes a problem where Follett Discovery catalogs results without availability details (for example, digital items) were incorrectly listed as "not available". This change provides a generic "View" link to the item instead of displaying incorrect information

Known Issues

  • The Pause Mode button is not displaying currently; you can use On-Demand mode to get a similar behavior<p>Pause mode will be replaced by On-Demand mode altogether in an upcoming release</p>

In Case You Missed It

  • Our recent release 2019.811.1 was a big one! Read about the changes in that release <a href="/release-notes/2019.811.1">here</a>
  • That release was followed up with release 2019.814.1! Read about the changes in that release <a href="/release-notes/2019.814.1">here</a>
  • We recently disabled our Google Analytics integration, as part of some feedback from the Mozilla Add Ons team. This does mean that we have less visibility in the mean time around which sites and libraries are being used and which ones may have problems. We hope to have a new system ready in the near future to report directly to our servers about which libraries are in use, and which features are being used, to aid in determining what areas of the product to improve

One more thing...

The Library Extension is provided at no cost, but it still takes time and effort to make this tool available to you. Consider supporting the Library Extension with a contribution to ensure that we can continue to bring these updates to everyone!

Please consider visiting our support page here and becoming a project supporter.

Last updated December 22, 2020