Manage default showcases

Vega integrates with the New York Times (NYT) Books API to provide New York Times showcases. Vega retrieves updated bestseller information from the API every night and refreshes the showcases in your catalog. If a bestseller's ISBN matches a title that’s already in your catalog, that title will be included in the showcase.

Showcase options include the following:

  • NYT—Children's Middle Grade Bestsellers
  • NYT—Children's Picture Books Bestsellers
  • NYT—Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Bestsellers
  • NYT—Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction Bestsellers
  • NYT—Young Adult Bestsellers

Notes

  • Browse by shelf and genre-based showcases are not NYT showcases and they’re not recommended for use in Vega Discover. Innovative recommends that they remain off.
  • When you hide materials from showcases, the materials still appear in search results.

Turn NYT showcases on or off

You can turn each NYT showcase on or off. You can also individually suppress titles from each NYT showcase if desired.

  1. From the Settings menu, select Showcases.
  2. Select Showcase display.

    3. The Showcases display toggling page opens.

  3. Select the On/Off toggle switch for the showcases you want to display or hide.

Hide content from showcases

You can hide content from showcases to change the patron experience. You can hide less useful fast subject headings, corporate authors such as publishing companies, titles with explicit covers, and any other materials you don’t want to appear as discovery suggestions in showcases.

  1. On the Showcases display toggling page, select Modify for the showcase you want to make changes to.
  2. Select the On/Off toggle switch for the titles you want to display or hide.
  3. To return to the Showcases display toggling page, select Showcase display from the Settings menu.

Suppress items

You can individually suppress any inappropriate or undesirable titles, contributors, and related resources from appearing in Vega showcases.

  1. Copy the URL of the title, person, or concept that you want to exclude.
  2. From the Settings menu, select Showcases.
  3. Select Suppressed items.

    4. The Suppressed Items page opens.

  4. Paste the URL of the title, person, or concept into the URL of item to hide field.
  5. Select Add.

    6. To remove a title, person, or concept from the suppressed items list, select the trash can trash can (delete) icon.