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Ability to Modify Purchase Request Role
Our Library would like to be able to allow the purchase request form be limited by role, so that only some subset of our staff may begin the purchase request process.
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Overdues
An alert function when items have gone overdue. Currently the requester will get sent overdue e-mails, but the library is not notified. When you have thousands of requests it is imposisble to search through.
12 votes -
Add 880 field to the Bibliographic Details dimension table in Analytics
In MARC bibliographic records, the 880 field is used for non-Roman script equivalents of other fields in the bib record. CJK (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) libraries, for example, may use the 880 to record the non-Roman script equivalent of the Romanized characters in a 245. We would like the 880 field to be searchable in Analytics so we can create new book lists in the CJK scripts. New book lists are very popular with our users and we would like to be able to present these lists in the CJK scripts.
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Use Pieces field from item record to trigger a confirmation pop-up at checkout or return
Use the Pieces field from item records to trigger a confirmation pop-up at item checkout or return when that item has two or more pieces. Taking measures for prompting staff to add notes manually item-by-item or creating sets and running jobs to populate fulfillment notes for items that have 2,3,...9,10,...39,40,... pieces are both impractical. Not having a pieces confirmation at checkout feature is a frequent complaint on the Alma Listserv.
24 votes -
Raise the limit to total number of rejections ( currently 1000) for exporting records that are not imported (due to import profile setup)
There is currently no limit to the number or records that can be imported into Alma (as far as I am aware).. there is however a limit of 1000 when needing to export the rejected data.. Workflows would be much better managed if this limit was raised to the total number of rejected records
159 votes -
Recovered missing/lost item notification
When an item marked lost (or missing) is checked in on Alma (i.e. found), we would like a notification (via email or otherwise) be sent automatically to the circulation supervisor.
43 votes -
Sorting Authority Task List
It would be highly helpful to have a sorting filter in the Authority Task List that would allow us to sort the list by Fields (e.g. 100's,600's, 700's, 830's,): Personal Names, Corporations/Conferences, Subject, Title, Uniform Titles, and Series. This way work loads can be created and assigned for these specific areas. As things are now, all items are mixed together and it takes far too much time to find/create a single list.
80 votesWe will consider addressing the requirement as part of the Authority Control Task List enhanced UX in the Alma roadmap: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Materials/010Roadmap/Alma_Roadmap_Highlights_-_January_2021/Metadata_Management#Authority_Control_Task_List_-_enhanced_UX
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Analytics - Ability take indicators and subfields into account when adding local (hol) parameters
At the moment it is not possible to take indicators and subfields into account when asking Ex Libris to add local (hol) parameters for Analytics.
That's very unfortunate as it can lead to an extremely cluttered output for the field that makes it impossible to use.As "normal" bibliographic fields however are filtered by subfields we'd like ExL to make this possible for the local parameters, too.
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Let every institution to configure due dates according loaning library (no only owning library).
We often loan items not in the owning library but in another one. In these cases, Alma assigns the due date according to the calendar of the owning library.
This causes that sometimes the due date is a closed day in the library where item will be returned (not owning library).
It would be good for us to configure Alma in order to assign due dates according to the calendar of the loaning library, not the owning library.22 votes -
Allow option to abort import once it has been submitted
Once an import has been submitted, there should be an option to abort or cancel the import.
Sometimes mistakes are made. The wrong import profile is chosen, the wrong file is chosen. Often the mistake can be noticed very quickly, but there is no choice but to wait until the entire import file is loaded. And by then the damage is done, it can be very tedious in Alma to undo certain mistakes (portfolios imported to the wrong collection for example).
Alma offers the action option to "abort" once a job has been submitted. This same option should be available…
36 votes -
Notes Tabs not in Analytics
We would like to be able to retrieve all the details in the Notes Tabs for Borrowing and Lending requests via Analytics. Currently, only the Request Note is retrievable.
54 votes -
VIAF Integration for Alma
I have been looking at the Alma Road map for 2018/19 and note the exciting BIBFRAME and Linked Data initiatives.
Fitting in nicely would be the facility to search VIAF from within Alma.
This would make it easier to check what already exists in authority files internationally and identify a suitable entry if we have to add identifying information for disambiguation purposes.93 votes -
Full PCRE Regular Expressions in Normalization rules
Supporting full PCRE regular expressions would make Normalization rules so powerful. Allow capturing data in one place and re-using it somewhere else, checking for substrings, etc.
28 votes -
Add Note Option for Fines/Fees
We have several short-loan items that our patrons check out, and these items often generate small fines that are difficult to track whether or not a fine is legitimate, or if there may have been operator error.
For example, we circulate study rooms where a student may check out the room key, and a box of white board markers or a television remote. If the student returns the room key and white board markers on time, but not the remote, it's difficult to tell if that's valid.
Solution: Rather than emailing all staff that may need to interact with that…
24 votes -
We need another possibility in the blocks options in Term of Use Definition 23 Block When Overdue
We need another possibility in the blocks options in Term of Use Definition
23 Block When Overdue,
We need, blocking 1 day for overdue OPENDAY cumulative.I mean: For our UAM Loan Rules, the overdue block system should work as follows:
Our users should be blockedfor natural days, but the overdue should be calculate ONLY whith OPENDAYS
23 votes -
Further define credits for patron fines
Fines often get exported through Bursar before a patron disputes them. Our lost item replacement fees and overdue fines get funneled into different accounts. The vague description for "credit" does not give our system any way to determine which account the credit should be adjusted from. (For example: A lost item replacement fee charge ends up in our materials budget once sent to the Bursar. The majority of credits are for materials returned after they were billed, so this is our default credit account. Since all credits are just defined as a "credit" when exported to the Bursar, credits for…
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Improve Alma Link Resolver’s performance with Pubmed IDs (PMIDs)
Improve Alma Link Resolver’s performance with Pubmed IDs (PMIDs) such that it is as good or better than Serials Solutions’ 360 Link performance with Pubmed IDs. Areas where this is currently a problem include translation of OpenURL data from Pubmed over to Illiad through Alma Linker and Primo, item level linking between Pubmed, Alma Linker and Cochrane Library, and probably many other areas.
134 votes -
Books Straps
We would like to print Book Straps (like in OCLC) to attach to books as quite often our patrons return books with out the Slips.
32 votes -
Having the notes field displayed on the front screen so we dont have to go into each request to see if any notes
If we add any notes it would be helpful to see that there is a note in the request on the first creation screen so that other people can see it straight away without having to look at each one individually
23 votes -
'Not Needed After' date should be mandatory on patron physical request form.
It would be helpful if the 'Not Needed After' date is mandatory on the patron physical request form to improve the requesting process for Patrons when there is a high demand for physical items.
400 votesHi,
An approach we’ll be looking at is that an optional ‘Last Interest Period’ request policy will, if set, be used to set a default the last interest date (Primo and Alma). This way every request will have a last interest date set by the policy and overridable by the patron.
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