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  1. Toggle Provenance Codes for Display

    I'd like to propose an enhancement that allows provenance codes to be disabled/hidden instead of exclusively being deleted when they are no longer needed.

    Currently, provenance codes can't be "hidden" from selection if they are no longer needed. Once a provenance code is not used, it can only be deleted and then any items with that code previously assigned are left with a single character from the code and "not listed".

    We use provenance codes to note grant-funded resources, but once the grant is used up, we'd like to remove the provenance code option so it doesn't clutter up the…

    4 votes
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  2. Include International Standard Music Number (ISMN) in Analytics

    ISMN is not present i Analytics, and is sorely missed.

    23 votes
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  3. Ability to combine two or more existing items into a kit without losing POL information

    If there's a way to do this, I can't find it.
    What I would like to have is to take existing/previously received items (presumably with their own barcodes) and then combine them under one barcode as a kit. In theory, you can use "Bond Items" to do this, but the problem is that you effectively lose your POL receiving info (as well as all other individual item info) from the combined items. In my organization's case, this can cause an issue for the auditing department if the is a question or issue involving one of the merged items since there…

    3 votes
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  4. Add fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ to the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job

    Area of concern: Additional indexes for ‘Change Physical Items’ Job.

    Please reference Ex Libris presentation ‘Automation Tasks for Summary Holdings’:

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/63890/Serials_-_Automation_tasks_for_summary_holdings.pptx?revision=2

    In order for 863/866 Summary Holdings generation to work properly, each item record must contain certain information in the ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ fields. Currently, neither of these fields are available via the ‘Change Physical Items’ job.

    What should be changed: As Serials Processors, we would like item level fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’, made editable via the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job. Being able to change these fields in batch would benefit our workflow by allowing us…

    21 votes
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  5. Improve the job report of the job Withdraw Physical items

    In the job report of the job Withdraw Physical items, we wish that alma can provide downloading feature for the following records:
    * Number of withdrawn items
    * Number of unmanaged items
    * Number of suppressed holdings records
    * Number of suppressed bibliographic records
    * Number of deleted holdings records
    * Number of deleted bibliographic records

    1 vote
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  6. Allow sorting by local call number (09X) MARC fields in Physical Titles and Physical Items searches

    We use the 090 and 099 for local call numbers, but Alma doesn't include 09X fields in its search indexes by default; as a result, they're not included in call number sorting in Alma or Primo, and we lack the ability to add them even after we enable them as search indexes. Adding these as options to call number sorting would enable fuller searches by staff and users respectively.

    8 votes
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  7. Mejorar realizar cambios globales en ejemplares físicos

    Permitir realizar cambios globales sobre los campos de signatura de ejemplares físicos, para modificar una parte de la signatura sin cambiar el resto. Por ejemplo:

    EPP3500(075)/ALV cambiar a PLP3500(075)/ALV

    EPP3300/WES cambiar a PLP3300/WES

    22 votes
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  8. Mejorar realizar cambios globales en ejemplares físicos

    Permitir realizar cambios globales sobre los campos de signatura de ejemplares físicos, para modificar una parte de la signatura sin cambiar el resto. Por ejemplo:

    EPP3500(075)/ALV cambiar a PLP3500(075)/ALV

    EPP3300/WES cambiar a PLP3300/WES

    0 votes
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  9. Add printable shelf list functionality to MDE 'Browse Shelf Listing'

    There is a need for a convenient Shelf List tool for libraries to conduct inventory / shelf reading projects for physical items. A logical place for this would be the Browse Shelf Listing function of the Metadata Editor. What's needed is the ability to enter a range of beginning and end call numbers, and make the result set printable from that screen.

    3 votes
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  10. Related holdings displayed only after "direct" holdings in the brief results

    Currently, only 5 holdings are displayed in the "Physical" tab in the brief results list in Alma. In many cases holdings and "related" holdings are mixed and displayed without any particular ranking. Especially when many of them are present, it takes many clicks before one can exclude the related holdings and obtain a list of all holdings linked directly to a record.
    The "Physical" tab in Alma could be changed like this: all holdings linked directly to the record are displayed first (regardless of the library), and only then come the holdings of related records.

    125 votes
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  11. Customize the amount of holdings displayed in the brief results

    Currently, only 5 holdings are displayed in the "Physical" tab in the brief results list in Alma. For IZs with many libraries, this is not always ideal and many clicks are necessary before getting to the complete list of holdings.
    The new sortlibraryby_relevance parameter helps but doesn't solve all issues.
    Therefore, we'd like to ask to implement a functionality similar to what can be done for the amount of records to be displayed in the results list (at the moment, one can choose between 10/20/50) so that for example staff users can choose whether they want to see…

    142 votes
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  12. Relocate "Change temporary location information" in the "Change physical items" job

    We run "Change physical items" job every day. At present, the"Change temporary location information" section is in the middle of the task parameters page. We would like to move it to the end of the page because we usually do not change item's temporary location but have to scroll down to reach other parameters in need to change.

    9 votes
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  13. Prevent duplicate storage location IDs

    When you duplicate a physical item, the copy ID and inventory number and barcode are treated as unique and therefore not duplicated. We would like a configuration setting to treat the storage location ID as unique as well. Staff often duplicate existing items when adding new items since many of the fields are the same, but they sometimes forget to delete the storage ID when duplicating. Our storage management uses unique IDs like a barcode and these duplicates cause problems.

    12 votes
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  14. Campos de accesibilidad 341 y 532 en índices de búsqueda

    Los campos MARC21 de accesibilidad 341 y 532 no son recuperables en los índices de búsqueda de Alma (MARC 21 Search Indexes). Necesitamos que se puedan recuperar.

    MARC21 accessibility fields 341 and 532 are not recoverable in Alma's search indexes (MARC 21 Search Indexes). We need them to be able to recover.

    341 - Contenido de accesibilidad
    341 - Accessibility Content
    532 - Nota de accesibilidad
    532 - Accessibility Note

    ¡Gracias!
    Thank you!

    12 votes
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  15. Resource Search Brief record's displayed fields

    When performing Resource Search for external resources, the edition statement or series name is not displayed.
    However, Alma does show these when searching for records internally by adjusting "Manage column display", which makes it easy to know what record we are dealing with.
    If a record is known to have an edition statement or series statement, it should be displayed in external resource search as to make it easy to identify the records without having to open them one by one to check such information.

    2 votes
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  16. Select all items

    Provide the option to select all items attached to a holdings record at once (rather than selecting page by page).

    4 votes
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  17. Please expand the volume of Internal note fields to the Physical Item Editor

    Our library has more than three kinds of information need to be recorded in the internal note field, such as property number, new books statues notes, compensation books notes and so on.
    Hope is could add more, or became expandable let staff to select numbers of fields they needed.

    100 votes
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  18. Link to list of holdings from the results list of titles

    The Holdings button in the row actions menu takes a user to the MARC record view of the holdings record if there is only one holding but you go to the list of holdings page if there is more than one holdings on a bib.

    Clicking on the Items button in the row action menu always takes the user to the list of items page no matter how many items there are.

    The Associate a PO line row actions option that can only be accessed from this menu takes multiple steps to access if there is only one holding on…

    2 votes
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  19. Support order rules for Chinese call number

    The general principle is

    A. The call number order by A-Z, 0-9
    TP11
    TP112
    TP12
    TP131
    TP132
    TP2

    B. If there is a dash “-“ in the classification, it should order before the number 0-9
    H31
    H31-44
    H31-61
    H31-62
    H310

    C. If there is a slash “/” or a dash “-“ or dot “.” in the classification, the order should be “/”, “-“, ”.” (the first is“/” , the second is “-“ , the third is “.”)
    H319/001
    H319-49/001
    H319.1/001
    H319.1-49/001

    For more details, see case 00955963.

    And Comments from Fucheng:
    (1) Refer to FSD-URM-83541 .
    (2) Fix the "/…

    1 vote
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  20. Allow course terms to be removed with Course Bulk Update job

    The Course Bulk Update job can be used to update the term list associated with a course. The current behavior of the job is to add terms selected in the job to the term list in the course. There is no option to remove terms from the term list or replace existing terms in the term list with another term using the job.

    Please add an option to remove or replace terms using the Course Bulk Update job.

    6 votes
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