Geospatial discovery added to CLIO

We’re excited to announce that the latest CLIO release incorporates a new top level data source, joining Catalog, Articles, Academic Commons, and Web site search. Select GeoData to search the Columbia University Libraries spatial data collection as well as the collections of several other institutions, using geographical constraints. GeoBlacklight, a new open source platform for […]

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CLIO 7.9.25: Highlighting Databases and Point-of-Need Help

The latest CLIO release adds several enhancements to the search interface.  Highlights include: Links to full results labeled “View and filter” to promote facets. Enhanced visibility for database records and a clearer label to Search Database. Ask a Librarian service at point of need.  A no hits search will display the Ask a Librarian chat […]

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Changes to the CLIO Catalog Search

We’ve made two adjustments to the CLIO Catalog search based on feedback from faculty, students and librarians. Stemming has been disabled.  Stemming, or lemmatization is a default feature of some SOLR databases.  It functions by reducing a word to its “stem” and then adding all possible suffixes.   Before the change, a search for Methodism retrieved  […]

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New Results List Displays in CLIO

The results list displays have been updated to include Standard and Compact views: The per-page menu has been renamed “Display Options” The active “per page” option now shows a checkmark, and is remembered between sessions Results lists are numbered Check boxes for selecting items now display on the left Standard View: The Compact View displays […]

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Latest Release Adds Features to Articles Search

The latest CLIO release includes several enhancements to the Articles Search: Advanced Search for combining elements like author and keyword Basic Search now includes the ability to search by author, title, publication title,  ISBN and ISSN; in addition to the default All Fields search Sorting and editing have been improved See the 7.8.12 release notes […]

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