When you click on the button for lists on the OPAC and the pull down menu on the search results in the staff and opac it would be great if those lists were listed in alphabetical order by title of list. Right now it seems kind of random .. maybe the order in which the lists were created?
The lists that display in those instances are generated by the GetRecentShelves subroutine which retrieves (usually 10) shelve ordered by the date last modified: my $query = 'SELECT * FROM virtualshelves'; $query .= $selection; $query .= ' ORDER BY lastmodified DESC'; if ($row_count){ $query .= ' LIMIT ?'; So the top of the list should be the most recently changed. Perhaps it would be better to grab the last 10 most recently changed and reorder the resulting set by title?
But why the most recently changed? Why not just a alphabetical list? Patrons don't understand why a list starting with A isn't showing with the other lists starting with A ... and neither do the librarians.
(In reply to comment #2) > But why the most recently changed? Why not just a alphabetical list? Because it's too unwieldy and resource-intensive to retrieve all lists on every page
Then I'd say the first 10 alphabetical lists - but it's not just up to me. Nicole
An argument for leaving it as the 10 most recently modified: If your library has lots of public lists and uses the public lists to provide patrons with frequently-updated information it makes sense for them to be able to see freshly-updated lists. For instance, if a list was used as a bibliography on a popular topic, someone might be happy to know that something new had been added to it.
Closing this one due to age and I think Owen's argument is convincing