Provide multiple hold pickup options within a single Alma library
We'd like to provide, within a single Alma library, the following pickup location/delivery options to our users: locker, circulation desk, or mail to home. At present, this is only possible through the creation of additional libraries.
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Nicholas Pavlovic commented
This would be a very valuable enhancement. We have one building with our Curriculum Library inside. They are one library according to Alma. When a user places a request for an item, it only gives them the option of our main library. It would be ideal if it would instead tell them which managing desk they should go to pickup their item.
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Ian Chan commented
Perhaps the functionality of the Generic Checkbox field might be expanded to allow for multiple options? Right now we are testing it with just the one checkbox. However, our Library would prefer radio buttons where the default option is "pick-up in library" and the other radio button is contactless locker pickup. The 'value' associated with the selected option could still go into the request comments/notes field. Though it would be better eventually if it had it's own field.
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Rebecca Harris-Pierce commented
+1
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Clinton Graham commented
It would also be good to implement this in such a way that the location/delivery option could be communicated via a NCIP AcceptItem message (for example, via an Ext field).
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Manu Schwendener commented
+1
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Clinton Graham commented
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Ian Chan commented
I'd like to add that the ability to set a default pickup location would also help a lot.