A popularity badge called "Long Term Holds Requested" has been created which has the following parameters:

Popularity Parameter: Holds Requested Over Time Scope: CONS Weight: 1 (default) Age Horizon: 5 years Percentile: 99 Recalculation Interval: 1 month (default) Discard Value Count: 0 (default)

This popularity badge will rate bibliographic records based on the number of holds that have been placed on it over the past 5 years and will only apply the badge to the top 1% of records (99th percentile).

If a keyword search for harry potter is conducted and the sort option "Most Popular" is selected, Evergreen will apply the popularity rankings earned from badges to the search results.

Title search: harry potter. Sort by: Most Popular.

The popularity badge also appears in the bibliographic record display in the catalog. The name of the badge earned by the record and the popularity rating are displayed in the Record Details.

A popularity badge of 5.0/5.0 has been applied to the most popular bibliographic records where the search term "harry potter" is found in the title. In the image above, the popularity badge has identified records from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling as the most popular titles matching the search and has listed them first in the search results.