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  1. There should be a way for institutions to share normalization rules amongst each other.

    Currently each institution makes his own normalization rules and no one else can take advantage of the "cool tricks" and "advanced formulations" done. There should be a method similar to the very useful and popular one done in analytics, where there is a "community" folder in which institutions can share. In analytics reports are shared among all of the live institutions, saving time and effort. Something similar should be done for the normalization rules. We now have a huge pool of existing reports libraries share. Libraries copy reports from other libraries and then when necessary make local changes. This would…

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  2. API to interact with Alma sets

    Suggested by LIBIS consortium in their presentation today.

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  3. API to interact with Alma job scheduler

    A second suggestion from session 5.12 by the LIBIS consortium.

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  4. Batch job for deleting holding records

    After migrating to Alma we have a lot of holding records that don t have any items associated with them we would like to clean our data by deleting these empty holdings using a batch process

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  5. Staff search – add thumbnail to staff search results

    It will be really nice if the staff search result can display the cover of a book or a journal

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  6. Add policy to prevent Booking requests over closed days

    On behalf of the Product management team we would like to understand the need and use cases of the following 'Planned' feature - any comment is welcome.
    Currently, Alma users and Primo patrons can create booking requests in Alma which span over several days, if user tries to book items on closed library days, and the time frame is under the max length policy - Alma will adjust the book start and end time, without checking if the resulting time-span is more than the max length.
    This means that patrons can create booking requests that span an entire period a…

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  7. UNIMARC to MARC21 Authorities crosswalk issues

    UNIMARC to MARC21 crosswalk should be updated
    On behalf of the Product management team we would like to hear about the improvments that are required of the following 'Planned' feature (which it's need was raised by a specific library) - any comment is welcome.

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  8. Using best ebook record in community zone

    The ebook CZ records could be a lot better. The EBL records are already better than the CZ records, therefore wouldn't it be great if ProQuest would allow Ex Libris to use these records in the CZ.

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