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Make Cataloger notes searchable in Alma and/or Analytics.
It would be helpful if the data in the Cataloger notes within bibliographic records were searchable, possibly through Advanced search, keyword search, or even within Analytics. This would allow catalogers to easily gather these notes and organize them for specific resources related to projects that require review.
4 votes -
Allow for Almost Arbitrary Conditions in General Electronic Services
Currently for a general electronic service we can only create conditions based on metadata already contained in the given BIB record. Please provide a way to let the link resolver check any condition which is computable within a reasonable short amount of time!
Example Use Case:
Our library network offers a web service taking any given ISBN, ISSN or Union Catalog ID and returning 'true' if there is a BIB record for the corresponding resource in the union catalog and at least one of the network's libraries has an item of this resource available for ILL. Otherwise the web service…42 votes -
Alma Mobile is currently not designed to provide the call number after scanning an item. It will be nice to have the call number displayed
Alma Mobile is currently not designed to provide the call number after scanning an item. It will be nice to have the call number displayed
1 vote -
Add "Send Query to Patron" option to Digitization requests menu
Currently there is not option to ask the patron about a current Digitization request. These requests are often submitted with little or vague information and a way to contact the patron for clarification is needed. The "Send Query to Patron" option for this purpose is included under "the ellipses" for Resource Sharing requests. Why does it not appear for Digitization?
8 votes -
Correct closed fines/fees
Sometimes fines/fees are paid with the wrong fine/fee types or payment method.
We want to be able to correct this information even if the fine/fee has a closed status. This will make accounting and statistical reports more accurate.
We want the same functionality as for blocks.
10 votes -
Display PO Line Notes entries in Analytics with the newest notes first, to ensure their inclusion within the character limit
Currently the 'PO Line Notes' field in the Alma Analytics 'Funds Exchange' subject area, displays the content of all note entries attached to a particular PO Line as a single block of text, starting from the earliest-dated note and ending with the latest-dated note. However, as the field's display in Analytics is limited to 4000 characters, this means that the most recent notes are omitted from the report for any PO Lines that are particularly longstanding or have particularly copious notes. This is true both for the report as displayed within the Analytics interface, and for a version exported to…
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前端界面，还可以优化，每次进入界面，输入第一个isbn搜索，第一条数据非常慢，没有丝滑顺畅。还有就是连续录入个20，30条数据，内存被吃到95%以上，造成严重的内存泄露，非常卡顿。总之就是需要优化前端，使用户体验丝滑顺畅，现在卡得像坨屎一样！
前端界面，还可以优化，每次进入界面，输入第一个isbn搜索，第一条数据非常慢，没有丝滑顺畅。还有就是连续录入个20，30条数据，内存被吃到95%以上，造成严重的内存泄露，非常卡顿。总之就是需要优化前端，使用户体验丝滑顺畅，现在卡得像坨屎一样！
1 vote -
Any change to a role, or addition of a role, or replacement of a role, should be called out in release notes in a separate (or additional) s
Any change to a role, or addition of a role, or replacement of a role, should be called out in release notes in a separate (or additional) section of the release notes.
The reason for this need: Larger institutions have large numbers of Alma using staff to manage, oftentimes including student workers. It is important for Alma system administrators to have prompt awareness of changes to roles in order to make any necessary changes to staff accounts, profiles, etc. in order to maintain the security and integrity of patron data, cataloging data, norm rules, and the like.
Having changes of…
11 votes -
anonymization for purchase requests
Similar to fulfillment requests, such as loans, digitization requests, or holds, we would like to anonymize purchase requests (ideally as part of the fulfillment job).
There should be options of whether to include approved and/or rejected over a specific age. We understand there might be an issue with purchase requests that take an extended period to complete, so this requires purchase requests to be set to a 'closed' or 'completed' status when physical items are received or electronic inventory is activated. Currently, those statuses do not exist.
From a patron privacy perspective, separating the patron record from the content they…
3 votes -
Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the f
Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the file name will be included in the section זמינות גירסה דיגיטלית with name, not in קישורים wihout title.
1 vote -
Include a web service for renewing all loans at once in the API Users and Fulfilment
At the moment, POST /almaws/v1/users/{userid}/loans/{loanid} must be called individually for each loan. This is very time-consuming, especially in large accounts, and the general API limits must also be observed. It would be conceivable, for example, to introduce the loanid ALL, similar to GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mmsid}/holdings/{holdingid}/items for the holdingid.
The "Retrieve Items list" has a feature, where ALL can be used for the holdingid parameter to retrieve all items from all holdings. In a similar way we could use POST /users/{userid}/loans/ALL to renew all loans.
Using POST /almaws/v1/users/{user_id}/loans as the most obvious solution is…
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Digital Usage Anonymization
We would like to be able to anonymize digital representation usage, just like we are able to anonymize completed physical circulation and requests. Our students are concerned about their privacy and we want to ensure that they have the same level of privacy when using our digital resources as our physical ones.
28 votes -
Improve search "electronic titles" to include results with and without inventory
At the moment, when using the search "electronic titles" only titles with inventory can be found. Apparently, this is by design. It would be an obvius improvement to be able to find all electronic titles regardless of inventory when using this search.
22 votes -
Configure return (pop-up) notes
Dear,
New Alma UI: when you now return an item that is requested, you get a pop-up with an overload of notes, most of which are not useful and which make you search quite a bit for the information you are actually looking for.
In any case, (see attachment) those last two notes are redundant. The first two are also redundant, but perhaps that second note is useful in case it concerns a lost book and no fine is generated at the time of return.
Can ExLibris allows us to configure the display of these notes? (Similar to the scan-in…14 votes -
Automatic printing of ILL lending (pick-up) request slips
A Pick From Shelf request (for physical or digital item requests) automatically generates an email (slip) and, through an automatic email manager, a printed request slip as well. We would like the same for incoming Lending Requests (RapidILL). For now, there is no option to print this Ful Incoming Slip Letter automatically. The only option is manual printing.
12 votes -
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Knovel
Knovel has to day a lot of small collections. We are experiensing that our subscription to knovel complete is not updated in a correct way.
1 vote -
adding titles from community zone to institution zone collection without having to activate community zone collection
When finding another portfolio that is not in you collection you can today activate and move the portfolio to you IZ collection. Then you have to remember to delete the collection where it was in the first place. Make it possible to add it directly in to your IZ
4 votes -
Allow Citations as Logical Set for Digital Collection Creation
Currently only "Titles" sets are able to be used in the creation of logical Digital Collections:
We would like the ability attach logical sets of Citations to digital collections so that as reserves are added/removed, we do not have to delete all the titles and re-perform the search, nor do we want to add/remove one-by-one. This way, our course reserves digital collection will always be up to date every semester, without worrying about whether professors have submitted their reserve requests on time.
4 votes -
Apply physical item template with POL template
The POL template allows a small number of item record elements to be saved: library, location, material type.
It would be beneficial to save staff time by allowing staff creating POLs to also select a physical item templates when creating a POL. This would allow setting defaults such as copy ID, item policy, is magnetic, and pieces, that are generally known at the time of order.Templates are essential time savers.
8 votes -
separate work orders from patron requests
On the results from a physical titles search, each title shows the number of requests pending for that title. This number includes both patron physical item requests and internal work orders. In order to see what requests fall into which category, you have to click on the Requests link and wait for the information to load in the slider pane (this can take some time if the number of requests is large). Then you can filter by request/process type.
It would be useful for these two categories of requests to be separated from each other. For example, we circulate laptops…49 votes
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