Upgrade StorageU of Missouri new library catalog - connector changes needed
The University of Missouri will be permanently retiring its old III catalog soon. We now use Ebsco's FOLIO product for our catalog.
In the Zotero Connector (at least in Firefox; I haven't checked other browsers) it appears that our book records such as the example below are given an "article" icon (the white page as opposed to the blue book) when I'm looking at the book record, but actually get entered in my Zotero library as books and are given the appropriate icon when I bring them in and view them in Zotero itself. The book entriess themselves are mostly correct; the one consistent error is that the place of publication is not entered in the Place field of the book record in Zotero, and is also not included in the Publisher field.
Example book record: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat09109a&AN=mer.oai.edge.umsystem.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001083.cfbc8a7d.5b3f.55d0.ba52.6dd2e07ac83b&site=eds-live&scope=site
The most urgent issue is to get Zotero's Place field filled with the city of publication. The rendering of the Zotero icon as the typical "book" icon in the browser when looking at the book record would be nice too, as it would reduce confusion.
In the Zotero Connector (at least in Firefox; I haven't checked other browsers) it appears that our book records such as the example below are given an "article" icon (the white page as opposed to the blue book) when I'm looking at the book record, but actually get entered in my Zotero library as books and are given the appropriate icon when I bring them in and view them in Zotero itself. The book entriess themselves are mostly correct; the one consistent error is that the place of publication is not entered in the Place field of the book record in Zotero, and is also not included in the Publisher field.
Example book record: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat09109a&AN=mer.oai.edge.umsystem.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001083.cfbc8a7d.5b3f.55d0.ba52.6dd2e07ac83b&site=eds-live&scope=site
The most urgent issue is to get Zotero's Place field filled with the city of publication. The rendering of the Zotero icon as the typical "book" icon in the browser when looking at the book record would be nice too, as it would reduce confusion.
(I looked at this item: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09109a&AN=mer.oai.edge.umsystem.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001083.33fc5d5f.dd98.556c.83c9.fe9652e5eefe&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s8436643 )
The place of publication is simply not in the metadata. You'll note that it's also missing from the sample MLA citations they're providing. You'd have to take that up with your vendor, only they can fix it.
As you say, the icon is much lower priority and while some improvements might be possible, EBSCO really doesn't make that one easy for us, so I at least won't work on that.