Email to the listserv pointed out that other catalogs can show recent lists like this:
That's a pretty nice display and certainly draws more attention to the lists than they get now, buried under a drop-down menu with only their boring names to look at. I imagine building out something like this would involve writing a public report that publishes JSON data about the most recent X lists and their titles (so we can grab cover images).
The bigger question is where would this list display live—we already have a "new titles" cover display on the Koha home page and it's not a page that we link to very often. Most people engage with the catalog by dropping directly into a search, record display, or their user account. There's simply no reason to visit the home page itself. So it's likely that this lists display should live on the main website or a LibGuide instead.
Email to the listserv pointed out that other catalogs can show recent lists like this:
That's a pretty nice display and certainly draws more attention to the lists than they get now, buried under a drop-down menu with only their boring names to look at. I imagine building out something like this would involve writing a public report that publishes JSON data about the most recent X lists and their titles (so we can grab cover images).
The bigger question is where would this list display live—we already have a "new titles" cover display on the Koha home page and it's not a page that we link to very often. Most people engage with the catalog by dropping directly into a search, record display, or their user account. There's simply no reason to visit the home page itself. So it's likely that this lists display should live on the main website or a LibGuide instead.