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Digital Loans
It would really be helpful to have a tab or include borrowed digital books under patron loans so that its easy for them to renew or see what digital books they borrowed and need to return.
Currently there is no ability for a patron to see what digital books they may have borrowed and need to return.
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Allow automatic barcode generation in quick cataloguing form from Manage Patron Services
The quick cataloguing form has a variant depending on whether you access it through Fulfillment > Manage Patron services > loan tab > create item or through Resources > add a physical item.
In the first case (Fulfillment > Manage Patron services etc.), quick cataloguing is used in the case where a document is presented for loan but does not exist in the database. The barcode is then obligatory for loan, otherwise loan is not possible. The barcode cannot be automatically created.
In the Resources > add a physical item access to this form, the barcode is not mandatory but…
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List of Home Delivery Request to print labels and inform courier company
We manage a big number of home delivery requests. Alma does not allow you to create a list of loans of home delivery to print labels and send the list to the courier company.
The only way to do it is the day after by Analytics or developing a custom solution using webhooks and users API, to have it the same day.
It is necessary to make a list of patrons name, address, zip code, city, telephone and email address to print labels and create a csv file to be imported to the courier company software.
We can't wait a day to print…
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Option to reset reloan limit at a specified time each day
We manage laptops as inventory in Alma, and as such they are governed by Terms of Use and Advanced Policies. Our policy is that a user can checkout one laptop at a time, renew it once, but then can't checkout any more in that same calendar day.
Currently the reloan limit allows blocking by "Other - you may define the time span (in the Unit of Measurement) in which the same item may not be reloaned - minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months. Note that this option includes the Parallel option and blocks both parallel loans and same item loans…
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Restrict circulation of reading list items to students in a course
Hello,
In Alma, our library would like to add students to a course, and then have circulation of the reading list for that course restricted to the students in that course.In other words, students who are not linked to a course would be unable to checkout items from the reading list for that course.
Ideally, this would be an option when creating or editing a course.
Thank you.
3 votes -
Print patron loans to pdf
When Borrowing activity report is not active, it is very hard to print a list of loans for customer. It would be handy to print a tidy list of loans to patron. Not excel that you have to edit quite a lot.
3 votes -
Closed Library Due Date Management- new option for short Loan Items
For Short Loan Items (due time in hours)
If for some reason the library is still open (partial opening for query) even though it is closed for Alma
It is essential to have the option:
Move to the end of the day
(the system would take the library closing time)3 votes -
Loan receipt with calendar reminder event
It was very useful to have a calendar reminder for student/staff when they received the Loan receipt. It could be an outlook calendar file, Google calendar or event.
3 votes -
Library Independence - Campus Level
We have a large group of university libraries that operate together and share fulfillment rules, as well as a number of different colleges and other libraries that operator independently. Each college has a distinct Alma campus, while the centralised libraries are a member of a single campus. We would like the centralised staff at these libraries to be able to view loans at any of the libraries sharing their same campus. The only way to achieve this seems to be to assign a Fulfillment role at every library - which creates other problems.
I suggest a level of library independence…
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'Notifications - Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals' job's report
The 'Notifications - Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals' job's report doesn't accurately display when a users renewals have failed, see SF 00791592, specifically when nearing the users expiry date.
3 votes -
Give us a way to send a checkout receipt after we have forgotten to click "done."
Sometimes staff forget to click "done" after a checkout, then remember that they should have done it to send the email receipt. There is no way to send a receipt after the fact.
3 votes -
Making the temporary location change before the loan
We would like the temporary location change to be made before the loan, to enable us to exclude the temporary location from the loan count using a Loan limit rule.
Thank you for considering this request.3 votes -
Display Number of Renewals information under ‘Other Details’ of a Physical item
To enhance the circulation service and provide convenient access to usage information, we suggest displaying the renewal information including ‘number of renewals’ and ‘last renewal date’ under the ‘Other details’ section of a physical item in Alma. The number of renewals records how many times the due date of a loaned item was extended before the ‘maximum renewal period’. This figure is often essential to measure the usage and understand patron’s intention to continuously keep the loaned item.
In current release of Alma, the information under ‘Other details’ of a physical item shows usage information for circulation such as loans,…
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Closed Library Due Date Management language update
For the Closed Library Due Date Management policy, the value of "Move Backward-Move to end of previous open day" does NOT accurately describe what this setting actually does for hourly short loans. Why can't the value simply say, "Move due time to upcoming close time" or "Move to end of the same open day". No one is going to WANT to choose to move the due time to the actual PREVIOUS open day...that day is in the past.
Here was our scenario...we had items on reserve in our Short Loan Fulfillment Unit which had a 4 hour loan period. We…
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Renew at bottom of screen as well so scrolling up isn't necessary when patron has a lot of books checked out
Renew Renew Selected Renew
all at bottom of screen as well so scrolling up isn't necessary when patron has a lot of books checked out
2 votes -
Add options to Terms of Use "is renewable"
We would like the ability to require staff mediated renewals for certain items based on Terms of Use. Currently, TOUs have a flag for is renewable, but this allows patrons to self renew in their Primo account.
Desired state: the is renewable flag would allow us to customize into options:
- is renewable by staff and patron
- is renewable by staff only"is renewable by staff" would allow staff to use the existing renew options in manage patron services to renew the item, but would prevent the user from renewing from within Primo.
The other option would function as…
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Identifying info of returning patron visible when scanning in items
When items are returned/scanned in I often want to know who the borrower was for various reasons (a personal book was accidentally included and I want to contact borrower, a book was damaged and I want to contact borrower etc).
There is currently no option to add any columns related to borrower information. So if I want to find out who just returned an item I have to: row action > edit item > history > fulfillment activities
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Fulfillment Note - ability to add photos or live links
It would be helpful if we could also add photos and live links to Fulfillment Notes.
1 vote -
Enable filtering by library when patrons use multiple libraries
Our readerss use more than one library in our institution. When I look at their borrowing record, it shows me all their loans, which in some cases might be 50+. Why can't we filter so it just shows me what they've got from our library?
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Create a loan period that rounds reserves to the nearest hour
Rounding to the nearest hour with reserve loans makes it easier for the user to remember the time due to avoid fines. On the staff side, it is easier to manage bookings/holds.
1 vote
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