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BL event Type needed in Alma Analytics
It would be really useful to have BL Event type in Analytics, to improve widgets that our Doc Del team use to work on current requests.
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Allow the selection of Course and then Reading List when using LTI in a LMS site
There is often complex mappings between institutional courses and LMS sites (these are not always a 1-1 mapping) and due to this the automatic LTI match is not viable.
If courses are pre-loaded into Alma then the instructor may have already built the reading list they require so we do not want the LTI to create another course.
If the LTI adapter allowed the instructor to select a course first and then the reading list then this would lower administration overhead significantly when there isn't a direct map between the course and LMS site.
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Hide suggestions from everyone who is not a list owner/collaborator
At the moment materials suggested for lists are visible to everyone logged in to Leganto, as well as who suggested it and the comment they added.
We'd prefer if suggestions were only visible to list owners/collaborators.
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API for Retrieval of List of Courses for a User
There already exists an API for the retrieval of a list of users for a particular course:
GET /almaws/v1/courses/{course_id}/usersThis request is for development of an API for the retrieval of a list of courses for a particular user.
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When copying a section from one list to another provide a 'search for' option to find the list you want to move to.
At present it gives a randomly ordered list of all lists on 'My Lists' so hard to find the one you want if as a librarian you manage a lot of lists.
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Improve Courses search in Alma - Add an 'is empty' operator in the advanced search option for Course Year
The persistent search in Alma has a Courses option, and an advanced search can be constructed based on several course fields, including Course Year. As this field is not always filled in by LTI or manual course creation methods, it would be useful if the search operators on Course Year allowed staff to search for an empty field as well as the current single option of "Contains Keywords".
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Could it be possible to allow a SpringShare Libapps widgets to appear in Leganto front-end (e.g LibChat)
This ideas is to explore how far it might be possible to allow integration with a common Library CRM tool - whether it might be possible to integrate Libchat into Leganto. LibChat is the live chat bit of LibAnswers application from SpringShare's LibApps suite. and widgets can be added to webpages, and required a script element in the page HEAD or bottom, and then a div id added where the chat widget was called in the page.
Allowing such an integration for a common tool (which would be possible in a Primo customisation) would potentially allow more flexible support options.…7 votes -
Create a history tab on Course records in Alma
When looking at a course record in Alma, you can see which students are currently enrolled, along with other information about the course and who the instructors are. However, the course record doesn't have a history tab at all, so there's no record of any changes that may have happened to a course over time.
Keeping such a history would be valuable - it would help to know if the begin and end dates have been changed, or when instructors were added or removed.
The changes are in Alma but this functionality would be very helpful for us as Leganto…
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Add course adds/drops to the user record history in Alma
When you look at a user record in Alma, you can see the list of courses they are enrolled in. However, the user record's "history" tab doesn't include changes to their course enrollments. Having that history would be useful in troubleshooting access to course materials for individuals – you'd be able to see what they have been enrolled in, as well as when they might have lost access to a given course, for example.
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Ability to tailor the Alma citations view to support more workflows
This may be multiple ideas to be split out, but the basic idea is the same. Currently in Alma Citations, even with the useful SOLR indexing improvements to allow facets, it can still be difficult to use the Citations list as a tasklist, because there is only exclusive faceting and no date restriction. Although Analytics allows creation modification dates to come into use for filtering lists, in the Alma interface there is no easy way to only show certain dates.
It is also a heavy loading page as it can show all citations in Alma, whereas it would be useful…
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For Question and Answers in Leganto - allow a "cancel but add" option
Some instructors are trying to add multiple items very quickly and would like to be able to search and add items and then go back through and tag them.
In the current Question and Answer workflow, there is either a 'you must provide one response' type message, or there is a cancel option, but the cancel prevents items from being added. It would be useful in some cases to allow as cancel, but add option.0 votes -
Field to display URL where item type is Website
Where Website is chosen as the item type then it would be useful to have a field that displays the URL, in both the short and long form of the citation in Leganto. Ideally this should be displayed in <angled brackets> in keeping with common reference citation guidelines, but it would also serve as a useful back up if the link were to stop working. This would not need to be a hyperlink and may need to be different to the one that we are using as it would need to exclude any proxy url prefixes that may be in…
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Show students why download isn't available
This is relevant when students can see the citation before the download is made available to them.
In this case there are many reasons why the full-text mightn't be available. It might be waiting for copyright clearance. Or the lecturer might have added visibility dates. At the moment all the student can see is that there's no download, so they may complain to the instructor or the library when they actually just need to be patient.
So while the Download link is suppressed, it would be useful to display a brief explanation. Eg "Restricted until [date]" if a date is…
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Allow placeholder text in author field
When instructors create a citation they have to enter the author manually. We want them to always enter the author as Surname, I.N. or at least Surname, Firstname - so students get used to the preferred citation format and for copyright reporting purposes - but there's nothing to remind them of this.
We'd like placeholder text to display in the author field, which would be configurable via the Labels code table.
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Digitization request form - show fields for journal articles as well as books
Improve the request digitization form so that it
shows the appropriate fields if the bookmark is a journal article, and shows the existing information from the bookmark to the requestor.
The information appears in the Alma citation, but I'd like the requester (whether academic or library staff) to see the information from the Leganto side.
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Hide instructors ability to restrict access to reading lists based on time intervals
In Leganto, instructors have a lot of opportunities to restrict access to the reading list by setting specific time intervals where resources are visible. This includes separate settings for entire reading lists, sections, citations and uploaded material. We have received reports from our libraries that these functions are sometimes used incorrectly by the instructors. The instructors often do not grasp all the consequences of using these features and end up causing these resources to become unavailable at inopportune times and not knowing why. For instance, an instructor might set the reading list to be visible from August 10th – December…
20 votesSome of this has already been implemented in the new UI:
Citations: instructors can no longer set specific visibility dates per item.
Sections: Sections can still be hidden/display according to the section date. No changes are planned.
Lists: List dates will not impact the list visibility starting with the May 2024 release.
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Add Citavi Integration to Leganto
As a librarian from a German library just introducing Leganto I would recommend to add Citavi to Leganto.
Citavi (https://www.citavi.com/de) is a widely used, sophisticated and user friendly reference management and knowledge organization software. It is available as site license to the members of most of German, Austrian and Swiss universities (see https://www.citavi.com/de/campuslizenzen) and additionally to some other European and overseas academic institutions (many Spanish speaking).
A Citavi integration with Leganto would be an additional benefit and welcome feature especially to new Leganto users from D A CH where for example software like RefWorks in less widely…
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Cite it support for Legislation.gov.uk
It would be very helpful to have Legislation.gov.uk as a supported site for Cite it.
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Cite it support for Legislation.gov.uk
It would be very helpful to have Legislation.gov.uk as a supported site for Cite it.
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Provide an ability to configure the sort order of the links display in Leganto
Currently the links are displayed according to what the Alma u-resolver returns back, and the results (links) are dependent on the collection activation in Alma. We need the option to sort links (Ascending/Descending) in Leganto view, regardless of the Alma / Primo sort.
3 votes
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