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39 results found
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Make "Send Query to Patron" option available in other areas of Alma
The Send Query to Patron function found under Fulfillment - Resource Sharing - Borrowing Requests - More actions (on item) is a great tool for notifying patrons within a request without having to cancel the request to send a note. Can this be made available elsewhere in the system (e.g. Pick from Shelf, Patron Requests, Network Activity, etc.) for quick and easy access to the function?
12 votes -
Ability to queue borrowing requests for a temporarily inactive partner
Hi,
For resource sharing, we use Alma partners with the ISO profile type that are part of the Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) network.When partner libraries suspend themselves from LADD services, their Status updates in Alma to Inactive.
However, sometimes a Library is the only possible lender of material. In these cases, we would prefer to wait until the Library becomes Active again, instead of trying to source a partner overseas (for us in Australia, time-consuming and much more expensive, plus challenges with postal delays). At present, we add a Note to the request that it is to be…
3 votes -
Allow network zone e-collections to be made available to inventory management groups within an institution using different proxies
When providing access to electronic resources from the NZ, resources are made "available for" member institutions and if applicable a proxy is set, meaning the institution's default proxy. However, these institutions may themselves be providing distributed access to e-resources via network inventory groups using different proxy integration profiles (such as different colleges using a single Alma institution, with inventory management groups mapped to campuses). In this case it is not possible for the member institution to use NZ e-resources since the proxy might not work for one or another campus, or one campus in the institution might have access and…
49 votes -
Local Authorities for Network Zone linked records
Alma provides the possibility of local authorities for cataloguing in an Institutional Zone and its local records. Unfortunately I cannot use those local authorities if I work in a Network Zone environment for records linked to the Network Zone.
I would like to:
a. define the local authority in the Institution Zone.
b. Link to this local authority in a local field 6XX (= with $$9LOCAL) via F3 in MDE even if the bibliographic record is linked to the Network Zone.146 votes -
Allow network zone administrators to unlink bibs from member institutions
In many cases member institutions share records with the NZ that go against the consortium's policy. In these cases the only recourse is to ask the member institution to "copy to catalog", which unlinks the record, allowing the NZ to delete the bib record. This can be cumbersome in a large consortium. It should be possible for the NZ admins to perform this action, i.e. while working in the NZ to unlink a bib from member IZs, as though any institutions holding that bib had selected "copy to catalog".
33 votes -
Deleting Network Zone Records from and Institution Zone in Bulk
Members of Consortia (with appropriate privilege's) need to be able to delete bibliographic records managed in the Network Zone in Bulk from within the member institution Zone
19 votes -
Making Copy to Community / Network / Institution configurable
When searching for authoritiy records, there are options to copy an authority to Network or to Community or even to the Institution zone.
We understand there may be institutions and consortia administrating different kind of vocabularies at different levels, but this is not the case for all. We see in our consortium too many mistakes due to catalogers selecting the wrong button when importing a record. We therefore strongly suggest making all these options configurable, so that it will be possible to hide the buttons.
45 votes -
Improve OpenURL generation to remove blanks and duplicates
Openurls generated could by Alma/Primo be shorted by:
- Not sending duplicate parameters.
- Not sending empty parameters.
Background:
We have noticed that OpenURLs produced by Alma/Primo (which are then sent on to our ILLiad server, which can require redirection to get the patron authenticated) can be VERY long. So long in fact, that they can produce errors for our ILLiad web server. The ILLiad server will end up reporting "Request header is too large", and the user is left with a HTTP Status 400 Bad request error.
We believe the responsibility here is on the Alma/PRimo side as the urls generated…
15 votes -
Network Zone suppress dedup/frbr should have a library/location tree
The Network Zone should have the ability to suppres dedup/frbr at the library>location which exists when suppressing dedup/frbr for IZ only bib records from displaying in Primo VE.
IZ only bib records suppress dedup/frbr allows a library to suppress on the permanent physical location in a library. New records added to the location automatically suppress dedup/frbr in Primo VE once this has been configured.
For NZ linked records using the Network Zone, suppressing dedup/frbr for an library/location in the network means multiple steps and constant updating are required from an institution and Network Zone. A local extension needs to be…
51 votes -
Ability to convert from digital/electronic to physical request
we have encountered issues when a citation for a digital/electronic request for an article/chapter is either beyond what is permitted within copyright policy or is insufficient to determine what is needed
rather than cancel the request and have it hit the next institution on a rota, we prefer to be able to to convert the request to physical and route the entire item to the borrowing institution, much like the functionality available in ILLiad
would it be possible for there to be an option to convert a digital/electronic request to a physical request?
currently, we are required to close out…
17 votes -
Fulfillment Network: when a patron loses a book from another institution, allow for automated blocking of that patron at all institutions
So in other words, when a patron from institution A checks out a book from institution B and then Alma marks it is lost, it would be great if Alma could automatically place a consortial block on that patron so they are unable to check out books from any institution. We currently have this working as a custom integration using the Alma API, but it would be great if this were native functionality in Alma.
50 votes -
Ability for fulfillment staff to renew patron loans from other institutions under network activity in Alma
Our consortium would like circulation desk staff to have the ability within Alma to renew items on loan from other institutions from under a user's network activity tab (renew all and renew selected, though renew all being more helpful if both are not possible).
Currently, only the user has access to a renewal option via their Primo VE My Library Card.
73 votes -
Create "Quick Cataloging" placement default as "Institution" rather than "Network"
When creating an item at checkout, or a brief record, Alma opens up a Quick Cataloging window that defaults the "Placement of new record" into the network. Since these records most often end up with the Cataloger under review, I feel that Alma should default to the Institution Zone instead. This will ensure that we do not unintentionally add these records to the Network zone.
15 votes -
Manage Multiyear Licenses for Electronic Resources in a POL
Hi,
It is common for libraries to sign multi-year price lock deals for e-resources (databases, journals, etc). Currently, we are keeping track of this information as "Notes" which is hard for us to follow since "Notes" used for other purposes. Also, we need to update the "List price" accordingly before we proceed with a renewal /invoice payment.
Would it be feasible to have a POL type that is catered for multi-year deals. I was somewhat inspired by the new feature in the Jan'18 release that is meant to record multiyear licenses in a Network Zone. A similar feature in the…
25 votes -
Patron Loan Limits should work like network level blocks
For institutions using Resource Sharing or fulfillment networks, we recently gained the ability to use network level blocks, however most of our blocked patrons are blocked due to loan limits configuration (cash, overdue recalls, etc), not manual blocks.
We would like the ability to include those blocks as network blocks as well, so that our patrons that visit other sites will have the same level of blocks as their home institution without us having to manually add a block.
45 votes -
Allow reserves citations from Network Zone electronic portfolios
When adding a citation to a course reading list through a repository search, that search is currently limited to the IZ. However, for consortial Alma implementations, there may be significant electronic inventory managed in the NZ, and that becomes unavailable to reserves. When doing a repository search to add a citation, NZ electronic inventory should be available.
75 votes -
Set up Online Service Order configuration in the NZ and be able to share with the IZ.
We would like to be able to set up Online Service Order in the NZ and share that configuration with the IZ. The goal is push the shared OA e-collections to the bottom of the list so they do not display first in the list.
136 votes -
Display Logic: shared NZ choices in IZ
Currently, the Display Logic settings are limited to IZ resources only; they do not allow choices for resources that are shared from the NZ among several institutions.
For example, my library offers unmediated CCC document delivery for certain Wiley titles we don't subscribe to. So when I set the display logic rule, it should be "Hide service Full Text with Electronic collection = CCC Get It Now Wiley if exists service Full Text with Electronic collection = Wiley Online Library." However, because the Wiley Online Library ecollection is shared in the NZ for my consortium, it will not appear as…
196 votes -
Add a mapping structure for normalization/merge rules in MDE
The numbers of normalization rules is getting quite annoying. When we are in a consortium we also see every rule in the network zone.
I would like a posibility to create folders like in Analytics.
This would be helpful to group rules by institution or category.27 votes
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