Set standard opening hours in advance
If the Library decides to change the standard opening hours of the Library for the coming year you currently have to wait until the first day of new hours to be able to input them as standard hours into Alma.
It would be nice if Alma allowed you to enter new standard opening hours in advance and to set a date in which they would come into effect. That way you wouldn't have to schedule to change them on the first day of the new hours.
An example would be if new standard hours were decided on by Library Management in June for the coming year. Currently you have to wait for the start of the new year but we'd like to be able to set them up in June with a date they'll come into effect
Simon Read
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Melanie West
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Angela's example below that this functionality would enable us to have "summer" standard hours rather than having to create exceptions for every day for that time period is exactly how this would help my library.
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Angela Wortham
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This would also be useful for libraries with two sets of standard hours. For example, different hours for summer. If we could edit the valid from and valid to dates, we could just have an additional set of standard hours, rather than lots of exceptions.