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Display "Bibliographic Rank" for Electronic Collections IZ/NG
In the November 2023 Alma release, "bibliographic rank" information displays for Community Zone collections (please see attached screenshot and https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173/suggestions/39648964) but this information does not display for Community Zone collections activated in the Institution Zone/Network Zone.
This makes it more time consuming to evaluate the bib record quality of collections already activated because one would need to search for them one by one in the CZ.
Please display "bibliograpic rank" for all elections collections (CZ and local too if possible) in a library's Institution Zone and Network Zone and also make this data available in Analytics so reports can…
32 votes -
Add Block for Resource Sharing Shipping from Scan-In Items
Alma allows an institution to set rsallowactionsonscan_in to false. When a staff person tries to Receive or Ship a resource sharing request from Scan-In, the staff person sees a pop-up message advising them to use Alma Receiving or Shipping.
When Scan-in Items is used on a lending request that should be shipped, a pop up message displays that “Shipping is required to be done from the dedicated screen, Are you sure you want to continue?” There is a “Cancel” or “Confirm” option. If the staff person chooses “Confirm” and scans the item barcode again then another…
37 votes -
Add the ability to search ( and save query ) for holdings with suppressed tag yes
Please add the ability to search ( and save query as a set ) for holdings with suppressed tag yes.
Right now we can search for Holding having Tag Suppressed at Title level. This is not enough and is sometimes misleading (e.g. when a Title has 2 holdings, one suppressed and one not suppressed).We need to identify, save as set and manipulate holdings having tag suppressed at holdings level. This info has been added at Items level in Analytics, and is useful in case of report, but we need to work at Holdings Level in Alma with real time…
15 votes -
Ability to define a shipping address per PO line
We need the ability to define a different shipping address than the library billing address per PO line. The address should be included in the XML of all vendor-facing letters, be searchable, and be included in the Excel lists exported from the search results.
Use Cases:
- A central library manages subscriptions to journals and newspapers that are sent directly to end users by the vendor.
- Several libraries are integrated into a single Library in Alma but send orders independently to vendors, expecting delivery to their local addresses.43 votes -
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…
45 votes -
Acquisitions API - Interested in user – add other identifiers in addition to Primary ID
Currently Alma allows multiple identifiers to identify ALMA Users, however the Acquisitions API (Interested In users) mapping only allows “primary_ID”.
We’d like any other identifiers used in Alma also be allowed in the mapping (e.g. Email Type). If this is added on the API parameter, staff can use the less sensitive info instead on vendor site.
Noting that adding other identifiers in the Interested_User api parameters - is only doing what EOD acquisition workflow/mapping can already do.
It is cumbersome for staff having need to search the requester’s primary id to be able to use this feature.
Ref #06652820 –…
23 votes -
Add vendor UTB to Upload Electronic Holdings workflow
The vendor UTB has already e-collections in CZ which have dozens of activations in the EMEA region. We've already contacted the vendor, and they would be willing to implement the Upload Electronic Holdings workflow.
Vendor name: UTB
Website: https://www.utb.de
Contact: Tanja Klapputh, klapputh@utb.de
Alma Interface name: UTB GmbH23 votes -
Addition of the Accrued fines field in the Fines and Fees subject area in Alma Analytics
It would be great if there was an option in Alma Analytics to create a report with a list of people with a specific amount of accured fines if they had returned overdue documents on a given day (the day before actually).
19 votes -
Library level patron limits configuration
It should be possible to configure the Patron Limits table at the library level. Only Max Cash, Max Overdue and Max overdue recalls should be configurable, so that each library will be able to control when it starts blocking patrons independently of one another.
13 votes -
Further filtering in Authority control task list
We are regularly getting old bib records in the Authority control task list and they make it hard for us to spot new bib headings that we need to add to our local authority file. It would be very helpful if it would be possible to filter the list by creation date to limit the list to new bib records.
34 votes -
Finished claiming job does not give the library the option to check which vendors received a claim letter
When a claiming job is finished running in Alma you can view “events” from the finished job. This gives a line for each claim processed in the job, and lists three different identifiers: JOBID, POLINEID and VENDORID. None of these identifiers are searchable for the library, and the library then have no option to control what letters were sent in that specific job. If the identifiers listed in the job events were changed to the PO line reference and the vendor code the library would have the option to find the relevant POL and vendor and…
29 votes -
Analytics: Add the country to subject Area digital usage details
The country of download and the organization are key information about the digital usage details as they add value and context to the statistics. This information is very important to our institution. Would it be possible to add the country, country code and organization to the digital usage details the same way as in Esploro subject area Asset usage details
17 votes -
Ability to report on inventory for citations
We would like to analyse print and electronic inventory for citations for a single or multiple reading lists. We're interested to look at reading lists with high or low print/electronic inventory so that we could engage with reading list owners e.g. for lists with high amounts of print we may want to look at the addition of e-book versions of the titles.
Currently it is not possible to report on print and electronic inventory for citations due to the fact that the 'locate' process links the citation to a particular bibliographic record and it's consequently not possible to connect from…22 votes -
Lending Ship item physically check item barcode matches title
When staff use "Ship Item Physically" from an individual request, there is no check that the item barcode entered into the Ship form matches the item barcode for the title. Staff can accidentally scan a barcode for a different request.
Because the item barcode is already in use, the other request can't be Shipped.
Adding a General setting to check that the item barcode matches the located title would help prevent workflow errors.
24 votes -
Ability to add Request Note during Scan In to Work Order Deparment
When performing Scan In on items to a Work Order Department, we have the ability to Set Status To our congigured status options, but no ability to add a Request Note, as we have if we were creating work order requests for some other Department.
If we want to include a Request Note (to be included on any subsequent transit letters, for example), we then have to go into each entry in Manage In Process Items, locate the request that was created by the Scan In, and input a Request Note.
It would be great if, while setting the status…12 votes -
Add all Enumeration and Chronology fields to the Inventory Information tab of an Import Profile
Currently, only Enumeration A - C and Chronology I - K are listed in the Inventory Information tab of our Import Profiles. Our consortia uses Enumeration A-D; Enumeration D specifically is used for free-text phrases that do not conveniently fit into the category of volume, number or issue; so "index", "part", "box", etc. are all written in EnumD. This is why it is frustrating that this enumeration field cannot be imported via an import profile.
It would be immensely helpful for us if all enumeration fields were listed in the import profile. There is no point in having so many…
55 votes -
Enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics of usage analysis
For some vendors, it may have sub-databases in the subscriptions and collect usage for a particular database and the titles within seems not possible currently by Analytics. Though there’s a “Platform” field in Analytics, it did not separate the figures between different databases for a single vendor. It's strongly recommended to enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics and enhance the functionality of usage analysis.
21 votes -
Creating expected items in status acquisition without using prediction pattern
In the current workflow for periodicals, when using predicted items, there is no easy way to add just one predicted item. This means that if we make a mistake or there is a change in the publication pattern, for example we receive the wrong item/delete the wrong item, or that a periodical is published as a combined issue (ex: issue 2 and 3 together, as number 2/3 2023), there is no easy way to fix it. We must then create predicted items for that whole year again which involves editing “next predicted item information” in the metadata editor, opening and…
29 votes -
Please add specific limitations for interlibrary loan requests in Primo VE between institutions.
We are a library consortium that conducts interlibrary loans through a fulfillment network. We hope that when a reader from Institution A requests a book from Institution B via Primo VE, if Institution A already has the book and it is available for loan, the request cannot be processed.
If Alma has this filtering function, it can not only save shipping costs but also reduce the waiting time for readers.
88 votes -
Filter OUT cancelled PO Lines
Provide a facet to filter OUT cancelled PO Lines in the PO Line view. We have a lot of cancelled PO Lines with the same title as existing PO Lines, and it is confusing and time consuming to find the 'active' PO Lines. It would help us tremendously if we could filter OUT cancelled PO Lines, perhaps even by default.
14 votes
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