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Block lenders from updating expired lending requests to shipped
Alma currently allows libraries to ship lending resource sharing requests even after they expire. This can occasionally create extremely confusing situations where the borrowing library receives multiple items from multiple libraries for the same lending request. Unfortunately, Alma completes both the borrowing and lending request when the lender who let the reqeust expire receives the item they shipped back from the lender. The only way to fix a problem like this is to delete the original reqeust at all three libraries and then create a brand new request. Can you please have Alma block any attempt to update a lending…
27 votes -
New Metadata Editor templates: editing template v. creating new record
Previously, when opening a template in the classic Metadata Editor (MDE), a click on the template name from the list of templates would give a list of options, including creating a new record: there was no doubt as to whether you were creating a new record from the template, or editing the template itself.
However, with the new MDE, clicking on the template name takes you straight into editing the template itself. Creating a new record from the template now requires a right click first to get to the options menu, but this is not at all obvious. It is…
68 votes -
Alternative work order behavior - Usage should be departmental, not individual
We would like an alternative to how work orders work now. We want the department (or “agent”) to initiate the request, rather than an individual using their own personal account. So that usage is calculated as “departmental” or work order, rather than the individual.
1 vote -
Customize the Register/Update User (Quick User Management) screen/window
Watching a Primo demo complete with a discussion on how the view was customized, made me wonder if certain areas in Fulfillment could be customized. Is it possible to customized/configure the Register/Update User (Quick User Management) screen/window depending upon the role of the user? For instance a Circulation Assistant or Student Assistant would see only a limited number of fields (of course all the mandatory ones) whereas an Admin would see all the fields?
2 votes -
Enhanced “In Transit” flow/functionality
We encounter a lack of important functionality to efficiently follow-up on In transit requests (physical item requests to another pick-up location). We would like the functionality to be extended with the following additional features:
1. A patron facing letter when the requested item is placed “in transit” by the owning library, so that the patron is better informed of the status of his request.
We want to create a situation that once a requested item is being transported, there is in fact no way back and a fee needs to paid.
2. To make it impossible for patrons to…122 votes -
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Add an option to create a purchase request from the current drop down or after hitting the "implement" button. Sending us to the title view doesn't help us to implement the recommendation.
3 votes -
Transit Time Rules for Work Order Departments
We have work order departments in a central location providing services to multiple libraries across our state. When the department has completed their task and is ready to send the item to the distant library, Alma sets the delivery date to 24 hours when the transit time between libraries could take 72 hours. This confuses patrons who believe the item is available when it is in transit.
The Transit Time Rule set between libraries are not configured to include Work Order Departments and only the library level is available for configuration. We would like the Transit Time Rules to include…
5 votes -
Add Normalized Call Numbers to eBook & eJournal Analytic Reports
Many academic departments ask for accreditation reports that count resources available for students. We typically use Library of Congress Call Number ranges from the OCLC conspectus to get counts of resources. The report runs well for all physical items. However, eBooks and eJournals (both ubiquitous to our collection) do not have normalized call numbers as a part of an analytics report. Therefore the counts of titles between a range of Call Numbers is not correct.
19 votes -
Estimated price -field for following year on continuous POL
Estimated price -field is needed for databases and another continuous purchase orders for following year budget planning. There should be price fields for both current year and the following year (also possibility to split them to different funds). Estimated price -field should also to be selected on the analytics reports. Publishers may change database or journals prices a lot more than average rate.
43 votes -
Adding a facet to filter search in CZ
When searching CZ for a portfolio, can we have a facet to filter to only show those collections we have activated.
83 votes -
Make the "License ID" visible in Alma
My team was trying to investigate ways to make sets for a project regarding our licenses and thought using the License ID would be great, but it's frustrating since we can't even see what the License ID actually is unless you find it in an Analytics report and search for it. In Analytics, you can add a column to show the "License ID", but are unable to view that in Alma. I think if it's viewable in Analytics and it's also a searchable field in Alma, it would make sense to make it an option to view in Alma as…
2 votes -
Add Workflow Note to Purchase Request Screen
At the University of Cumbria, we have configured Leganto questions, and we are using it in combination with a Citation Processing Rule to create a purchase request in Alma.
When we view the purchase requests in Alma, we see the "Requester note" as we have configured this to display. This works well but we'd also like to see the "Workflow note" as well on the purchase request screen as it contains information about the purchase (e.g. library, number of copies, etc.).
The idea is for Ex Libris to allow us to enable the display the "Workflow note" on the purchase…
18 votes -
Choose users affiliated to a particular library - Bulk Change Due Date
Our situation is that we have 2 libraries (eg. Library A - Library B) in 2 different cities. Students affiliated to a particular library can borrow items (books, DVD, etc.) owned by the other library.
The problem is:
Eg. Due to COVID, library A closed and library B remain open, so students affiliated to library A can't physically return their books. I would like to bulk change due date for all loans of library A students.
HOWEVER, if I choose 'Library A' in the field 'Library' of Bulk Change Due Date feature, Alma will change due date of loans related…
7 votes -
Implement auto holdings for Ebsco
Often there are many collections with Ebsco and it would be great to be able to have them on auto holding to have everything in one collection
20 votes -
Display loan limit for patrons at Manage Patron Services Screen in Alma
At present, there is no indication at the Manage Patron Services screen (when you go to a patron's account) of the loan limit for the patron (i.e. allowed to borrow 8 loans; of which 2 loans may be from the SL collection, etc.). This information is only available at Configuration - Fulfillment - Loan Limits.
12 votes -
More humanity in the letters: add the name of librarians who take care of the requests
Automatic processes in Alma make library staff save time and efforts, but also significantly reduce human interactions with patrons (very few emails are personally sent by librarians to patrons). Lots of Alma letters sent to patrons are nameless and only signed by generic service names like "Acquisitions Department", "Circulation Desk", "Library ABC" etc. (see @@department@@ in the Labels). Some staff members suffer from this dehumanization in the processes.
We want to give a name and a face to a request when patrons get notified and would like to enrich some Alma letters with the name of the librarian who took…
118 votes -
List the "Pick from Shelf" list, "Monitor Requests and item processes" and results from a "Requests" search in order from latest to oldest
We would find it helpful if it were possible to view requests (both active and complete) in order from latest to older without the need to export and filter
3 votes -
Add institution address information to XML for Ful Transit Slip Letter
When an item is placed in transit to another institution in an AFN, the institution name is included in the XML of the Ful Transit Slip Letter. However, no address information for the institution in included in the XML, so it's not possilble to add that information to the Ful Transit Slip Letter. SUNY has added resource sharing partner address info to our resource sharing shipping and return letters, and that has proven to be very helpful. We would like the address of the library where the item is held to be added to the XML for the Ful Transit…
41 votes -
Show count of items scanned in when using the cloud app of Bulk Scan-In
When I use the cloud app of Bulk Scan-In, I would like to see how many items get scanned in.
3 votes -
Filtering a report based on a user set
Right now if you want to filter a report on a user set...
- Run a search in Alma and save to a set
- Export the list, using Excel.
- Manipulate the needed field (e.g. of barcodes), to be stored in one row, with semicolon separating them (e.g. 365704-340;365704-350).
- Copy this list as a row to be used as a filter in Analytics
I would like Alma smart enough, when I click on filter to simply supply the user set I created.
5 votes
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