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Simplify item scanning when processing is complete
Operators would benefit from not having to choose a Work Order Type and Status when the treatment is complete. It is not always easy to find out which cataloguing or repair operation has been carried out on an item. And above all, it's not useful if Done =“No” is selected.
Couldn't you put this last line at the beginning of the form, and open the Work Order Type and Status boxes only if "Yes" has been ticked, rather than the other way round?
Thank you and thank you for supporting this modest proposal.
Nicolas
83 votes -
The option to change the permanent location in the item should not be a default, it should be selectable.
To change the permanent location in the item can lead to incorrect results. If you have two holdings with different locations and then change the location of the item which is connected to the first holding to the location of the second holding, your item will be relinked to the second holding AND the first holding will be deleted automatically. If the first holding contained additional information (e.g. the call number), this information will be lost.
The option to change the permanent location in the item should therefore not be a default, it should be selectable depending on the needs…107 votes -
Job “Withdraw Physical items” and holding of related records
With the “Withdraw Physical items” job, Alma does not provide the option of preventing the deletion of holding and bibliographic records when there are Holding of related record. We would like an additional option “Delete holdings; delete bibliographic records that have no other holdings and that have no Holding of related records”.
32 votes -
Add Ability to Exclude Holdings Records from LHR Publishing to OCLC When Holding/Bib Records Are Suppressed from Discovery
Currently, Alma's LHR Publishing job for OCLC does not exclude holdings records from publishing when the holdings record or the related bibliographic record is suppressed from discovery.
We request the addition of an option in the LHR publishing job to exclude such holdings records from publishing to OCLC. This functionality is particularly important for suppressed holdings records, as the management tag for publishing to OCLC is set at the bibliographic level. Currently, if a bib record contains two holdings records, it is not possible to publish one holding to OCLC while excluding the other.
25 votes -
Ability to create additional note fields in the physical item editor
At the physical item Editor, we currently have access to one public note, one Fulfillment note, 3 internal notes and 3 statistics notes. We would need 3 additional public note fields visible to the user in Primo and 3 additional internal note fields.
21 votes -
Allowing the relink of a holding from a bib record to another maintaining the call number even if the location is the same.
Now in Alma if you try to relink a holding with the same location (ex.: ABC) and call number 123 (1) from a record to another that have already a holding with the same location (ABC) and call number 123 (2), the holding with location ABC and call number 123 (1) disappear and everything is under the location ABC and call number 123 (2),.
This happens with a relink of a POL or an item.
We want to maintain the call number 123 (1).
If it is not possible to do it automatically at least a pop up message that…78 votes -
Add barcode to Managed Deleted Repository report
It would be very helpful if the Managed Deleted Repository Report could include the barcode of the item that was withdrawn. We were recently working on an inventory project, compiling a spreadsheet with barcodes. Some items were withdrawn, but we had them in our barcode spreadsheet and needed to delete them. We thought that the Managed Deleted Repository Report would help us identify them, but the barcode wasn't in the report.
11 votes -
Add clarifying language to the Delete Holdings records with no Physical Items job
Adjust the wording on the “Delete Holdings records with no Physical items” job to match wording from the “Withdrawn Physical items” job. Change “Delete bibliographic records” to “Delete bibliographic records that have no other holdings” AND "Suppress bibliographic records” to “Suppress bibliographic records that have no other holdings from publishing”. This would add needed clarity to what is happening when running the "Delete Holdings records with no Physical items" job.
4 votes -
Missing Padding Option for Accession Number Sequences in Call Number Generation
Currently, Alma does not support padding (adding leading zeros to reach a fixed number of digits) for accession number sequences used in the automatic generation of call numbers (e.g., via the "Generate" / "Calculate" button in the item editor). If the next sequence value is set to "0003," the leading zeros are removed upon saving. Even if the next sequence remains "0003" in the sequence configuration, the zeros are still automatically stripped when generating the next call number in the item editor.
Institutions that use custom call number schemes requiring padding can therefore only use Alma’s "Generate" or "Calculate" button…
6 votes -
Publishing to OCLC: Enrich LHRs Using OCN Instead of MMS ID for Unchanged/Deleted Holdings
OCLC processes incoming Local Holding Records (LHRs) by applying a 'replace all' mechanism. If WorldCat has three holding records for an OCN and the library sends just one holding record, WorldCat will replace the three existing holdings with the single incoming holding. This is documented here: https://help-nl.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/WorldShare_Collection_Manager/Data_sync_collections/Create_an_ongoing_data_sync_collection/Local_holdings_records_collection/30MARC_21_Format_for_Holdings_Data_and_OCLC_local_holdings_records
Currently, Alma's LHR publishing job for OCLC takes this into account by enriching the publishing of modified holdings with unmodified/deleted holdings that belong to the same bibliographic record. According to the Alma documentation: "Note also that when a holdings record is updated, it is republished together with all the holdings records linked to…
8 votes -
The Provenance field in the physical item editor
We would like the Provenance field in the physical item editor to be mandatory.
It is possible to have a default for the list but that is not the same thing. We are afraid people will be not so attentive, and the default option will be the one they always choose. We want it to be mandatory and default to nothing. The user then has to choose something in order to save the item.0 votes -
Item Statistics Notes fields - choose controlled/not controlled individually
At present it is possible to choose for all three of the Item Statistics Notes to be controlled (i.e. select field contents from a drop-down list) or for all three not to be controlled (i.e. free text).
This is restrictive and inflexible. It would be preferable to be able to choose field by field which are controlled and which are not, i.e. have some of the Statistics Notes free text and others controlled.
24 votes -
Add privilege to perform "Browse shelf listing" to physical inventory roles
When a user has the "Physical Inventory Operator" but no "Cataloger" role he/she can perform browse search in bibliographical and authority data but can NOT select "Browse shelf listing" - which is what one would expect.
It would be helpful for staff not working in the area of cataloging to be able to do call number browse search. There are several use cases:
.) Browse search can be very useful to look up complex call numbers of multi-volume works that are published in volumes and are further subdivided into sections. By looking at the index you can sometimes get a…16 votes -
Move requests and temporary locations - option to flag for processing, etc.
At present the item move requests sometimes work too seamlessly. Especially for items that are onloan when the request are made (or the item is restored to its permanent location). This is an issue when the items need manual intervention, e.g. relabelling. Items go through the process without being flagged unless another process is used, e.g. a work order or fulfillment note.
It should be possible to flag items for manual intervention when they arrive at their new or original location. A message on the lines of 'Move Request: check labels etc.,' in the manner of a fulfillment note.
53 votes -
Filter hold shelf by location
The Active Hold Shelf and Expired Hold Shelf both lump everything together: holds for our own library and interlibrary loans (location = resource sharing library). It would be most useful to be able to filter and view only one type of those at once, such as only the ILLs on the Active Hold Shelf. Right now there are no filters at all on the Active or Expired Hold Shelves.
4 votes -
Change "Permanent Call Number Starts With" search to search the class number only
Currently, searching for "Permanent Call Number Starts With" will search the beginning of the classification number (852$h) AND the beginning of the cutter number (852$i). Ideally, this should search for the beginning of the classification number only. When I search for a Permanent Call Number Starts With K, I expect to see a listing of materials on law, not every film whose title starts with K.
Alternatively, creating a separate index for the classification number (852$h) and cutter number (852$i) would allow users to do separate searches for classification numbers and cutter numbers.
3 votes -
Enable forcing barcode number for new items
When cataloguing a new item, we wish to force cataloguers to add barcode number before save. If some libraries do not want that, forcing the barcode field could be optional.
1 vote -
Change physical items job -- adding notes improvement
The "Append to field" option was added in November 2023, but two additional options are still required.
'Delimiter' should be an option.
Now, the default delimiter is ";".
Some institutions use symbols other than ";" as delimiters.
For example, we use "|".
Therefore, there is a need to make the delimiter optional.Writing forward in the note
The current specification is to write backwards.
Some institutions operate writing new information in the front of the note.
There are three reasons for this.
(1)It is easier to manually add notes at the front of the note.
(2)It is easier to see…
50 votes -
About hide “accession number field”
Request to hide the “Accession number field” in Alma that is repeated with the “signature field” when displayed
1 vote -
Ability to set bib record to "Force Export to WorldCat" via the "Set Management Tag" Job
Currently the "Set Management Tag" cannot set a bib record to "Force Export to WorldCat" as you can do in the Metadata Editor. Adding this option to that job would be very helpful as currently the only way to set this option is to go to each and every record via the Metadata Editor.
1 vote
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