Aspen Customization and Configuration

Catalog/Grouped Works: Author Authorities
This handout covers the creation of new author authorities to aid with the creation of grouped works.

Catalog/Grouped Works: Grouped Work Display
Grouped Work Display settings can be used to adjust the way that grouped works and search results display. This handout arranges those settings in easier to use ways to help help increase the discoverability of the settings you need.

Data Sources For Display Fields
This handout provides documentation of the sources for each field that might potentially be displayed on a record.

Default Book Covers
This handout contains a set of guides walking through how to view/change the colors for Aspen's Default Book Covers, and also how to set the default cover to an image.

Grouping and Ungrouping Titles in Aspen
An introduction to Aspen's Grouped Works and step by step instructions on how to group and ungroup titles.

Side Loading Basics
Sideloading, or adding MARC records directly into Aspen can be used to increase the discoverability of your digital content subscriptions and other extra resources. This handout covers the basics of creating and managing Aspen side loads.

Suggested Resource Connection Methods for Aspen
Aspen Discovery allows libraries to connect many catalog enrichments and other integrations. The list of options in this handout covers many of the common options and methods of connections. If you do not see one of the services that you use, let us know! We will collaborate with you to find the best way to connect it.

Web Builder Web Resources
Web Resources is a pre-formatted type designed to make resources such as databases searchable in your catalog with links directly to those resources.

Wikipedia Catalog Enrichment
A step by step guide to turning on the Wikipedia author enrichment in the catalog as well as editing or turning off the linking to Wikipedia for select authors. 

Adding New York Times Books API to Aspen Discovery
New York Times Book Lists can be automatically added to Aspen via the New York Times Books API. This handout covers the initial configuration, the creation of lists, and creating browse categories. 

Browse Categories From Lists
A step by step guide to creating browse categories from lists, including NYT book lists. The guide also includes a description of the autogenerated personalized lists and how to recreate them. 

Browse Categories From Search
Browse categories are a terrific way to help your patrons discover the titles in your catalog. There are two basic ways to create Browse Categories; from searches or from lists. The focus of this handout creating browse categories from searches.

Browse Category Customization
Examples of using Themes and Browse Category Groups to customize the display of your Browse Categories.  

Creating Lists
Step by step instructions on creating new lists.