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  1. Add ability to abort jobs when they are for information only, such as when exporting data or running overlap analysis

    Currently it is more common than not for jobs in Alma to be missing an option to Abort them under Monitor Jobs > Running.
    This is a highly frustrating situation where the only option is to open a Support case to request for the job to be aborted, and wait days for response.
    In the meantime, staff work is completely halted for this while we wait for Support.

    It is understandable that the Abort option is not present in cases where there could be negative impact on records, such as initiating an job update to change the records.
    But it…

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  2. convert bib. records to sub collections in bulk

    We discovered in Alma the possibility of creating collections of archival materials, which gives us the opportunity to create a hierarchy of collections and subcollections. Visually it also looks good. We do not yet have DIGITAL ALMA, we cannot load materials themselves, but a reader receives comprehensive and detailed information about library collections.
    At the same time, we encountered a problem: we have collections with dozens of subcollections, and each subcollection needs to be edited separately. It takes precious time and a feeling of wasting energy on creating records of subcollections, when we have their bibliographic records ready with all…

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  3. OAI publishing profile

    At the moment Alma can have only one OAI publishing profile. However this doesn't always meet customers needs.
    We already have one OAI profile which we use with RapidILL to control books and is restricted to our main library via the set rules. However we have now been asked to set up another OAI profile to link to a service which would use books in two of our other libraries. At the moment this is impossible.
    Could this functionality be added? I imagine it would be of benefit to other Alma users.

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