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If the external lookups or APIs are not functioning, we try to ensure the knowledge panel and author and subject pages still load with the information from our own browse indices.
Additional design changes
We also updated aspects of the design of both the author knowledge panel and the subject and author pages. We incorporated library holdings search information into the author and subject pages to allow users to more easily find related information and resources. Our author and subject browse indices already included the "total works by" and "total works about" information. In order to ensure that the library holdings information search results reflected works by and about the authors, we employed an advanced search using a boolean OR to query for results where the heading was the author or the subject (using the same author and subject fields search fields that are used for the links for "total works by" and "total works about" links).
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