Add Academic Department as a field in Acquisitions
Many academic libraries need to keep track of spending by academic department. If spending is not allocated by academic department then it is needlessly cumbersome to track this through the fund structure. Although this could be tracked through the sole reporting code Alma offers, there are many other competing needs for that valuable real estate. It would be useful to many institutions to have a discrete academic department field for use in creating reports.
Alternatively, add a "reporting code 2" to acquisitions that could be used for a variety of purposes.
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The September 2017 Release includes the addition of the 2 additional reporting codes to the relevant Analytics Subject Areas. See here for more details:
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Sarah Weeks commented
Yes! That is wonderful! Thank you!!
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Thank you for your suggestion to "Add Academic Department as a field in Acquisitions". As part of our 2017 roadmap plans we will be adding two additional "reporting code" fields to the POL and the Invoice line. These will also be reportable in Alma analytics. These could be used for various purposes, among them as a way to add the "Academic Department". Does this seem like a suitable and logical way to achieve your desired goal.
Have a nice day,
Yoel Kortick
Senior Librarian
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