WorldCat Discovery release notes, 31 July 2025
Release Date: July 31, 2025
Introduction
This release of WorldCat Discovery includes the following enhancement:
- Service Configuration’s Place Hold/Request Buttons page now modernized
New features and enhancements
Service Configuration’s Place Hold/Request Buttons page now modernized
Overview
Library staff will now see an updated design on the Place Hold/Request Buttons page in Service Configuration. These changes help streamline configuration without impacting functionality.
Details
This page has been updated to improve the visual layout. As part of this update, the WMS Place Hold Form Display settings that were previously located under the For items owned by accordion now appear under a newly added accordion titled WMS Place Hold Form.

New page

Configuration
No action is required. You can access this page here:
Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Place Hold / Request Buttons
Important links
Product website
More product information can be found here.
WorldCat Discovery events
Support websites
Include Request ID with problem reports
When reporting an issue with WorldCat Discovery, it is extremely helpful to include the Request ID. The Request ID is found at the bottom of the screen on which the issue occurred. Including this information allows us to directly trace what happened on the request we are troubleshooting.

