New subject browse index definitions have been added that display the entire heading as a unit with hyphens between terms instead of displaying individual terms separately.

For example, the browse heading for:

=650 \0$aCats$zUnited States$vCorrespondence.

will display in a single entry as:

Cats — United States — Correspondence

Rather than separate entries for Cats and United States.

Name subjects will continue to display as separate entries because additional work would be required for the heading to be punctuated correctly.

Advanced search limiters will no longer propagate to the basic search box in the catalog. Instead, the limiters applied to the search will appear underneath the search box where they can be easily cleared by clicking an x. On a small, mobile device, the advanced search limiters can be seen by clicking an x filter applied link.

The selected limiters will be applied to any search from the search bar until: * The user actively removes the filters from the search or * The user starts a new basic or advanced search from scratch.

New stylesheets and other changes to the catalog to allow for better support of right-to-left (RTL) languages, such as Arabic.

Also adds Arabic (Jordan) as a new supported language.

Evergreen 2.12 supports partial integration with third-party APIs provided by OverDrive and OneClickdigital. When ebook API integration is enabled, bibliographic records from these vendors that appear in your public catalog will include vendor holdings and availability information. Also, when a user is logged in, the public catalog dashboard and My Account interface will include information about that user’s checkouts and holds for supported vendors.

For API integration to work, you need to request API access from the vendor and configure your Evergreen system according to the instructions below. You also need to configure the new open-ils.ebook_api service.

This feature assumes that you are importing MARC records supplied by the vendor into your Evergreen system, using Vandelay or some other MARC import method. This feature does not search the vendor’s online collections or automatically import vendor records into your system; it merely augments records that are already in Evergreen.

A future Evergreen release will add the ability for users to check out titles, place holds, etc., directly via the public catalog.

The record summary pages in the catalog will now link to other formats and editions of a title. The links will allow users to quickly jump to another format of the title or an edition written in another language.

This release brings several improvement to the Group Formats and Editions search.

Before the TPAC, a site could configure the public catalog to use metarecord searching by default, via a configuration file. Here we bring that back.

A new setting called search.metarecord_default is present in templates/opac/parts/config.tt2 to enable this feature. By setting this to a true value (normally 1) the TPAC will silently include the #metabib search modifier in the search form on any interfaces that do not have a UI component that allows the user to control the setting.

Evergreen now integrates with Czech added content provider obalkyknih.cz. A new setting called obalkyknih_cz.enabled is available in templates/opac/parts/config.tt2 to enable this new feature.