{"id":17554,"date":"2020-11-24T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T09:55:54","slug":"improvements-to-my-account-area-in-librarysearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/improvements-to-my-account-area-in-librarysearch\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to &#8220;My Account&#8221; area in LibrarySearch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just introduced a couple of improvements to the &#8220;My Account&#8221; area in <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\">LibrarySearch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2>Alerts for reserved items<\/h2>\n<p>In the &#8220;Checkouts&#8221; area you can now see straight away if an item you have on loan can&#8217;t be renewed because it&#8217;s been reserved by someone else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17557\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/reservation-alert.jpg\" alt=\"Reservation alert screenshot\" width=\"760\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/reservation-alert.jpg 760w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/reservation-alert-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before we made this change, there was no indication of this until after you tried to renew the item, and even then the error message could be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course if someone reserves one of your loan items, you&#8217;ll still receive the usual email alert to let you know that you need to return the item.<\/p>\n<h2>New &#8220;Contact us&#8221; link<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added a &#8220;Contact us&#8221; link underneath the &#8220;Your Status&#8221; box in your account. If you have any problems with your LibrarySearch account, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17555 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/account-contact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/account-contact.jpg 290w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/11\/account-contact-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Improvement ideas?<\/h2>\n<p>We are continuously working to make LibrarySearch better.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any ideas or suggestions, or if there&#8217;s anything that really bugs you about LibrarySearch, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/is\/feedback\/feedback.html\">please let us know <\/a><\/strong>at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just introduced a couple of improvements to the &#8220;My Account&#8221; area in LibrarySearch: Alerts for reserved items In the &#8220;Checkouts&#8221; area you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/improvements-to-my-account-area-in-librarysearch\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227575,10269,85943],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17583,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions\/17583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}