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  1. In House Use Function

    There needs to be a separate function for 'In-House Use'. Scan-ins for activating Holds and the Return function are being too easily conflated in our In house use statistics. For example we have Kiosks that periodically scan all of the books inside the kiosk and each time it detects an RFID tag it scans in the item which then registers it as an in-house use. Also, staff may scan in an item that they are unsure about which registers it as an In House use. All of this renders In-house use statistics unreliable. The only remedy for this is a…

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  2. ITEM_UPDATE: info about the FIELD NAME modified.

    When we receive a webhook of type ITEM_UPDATE, it would be great to receive WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE FIELD IS THE ONE THAT IS MODIFIED? In the history of an issue, it appears as “FIELD NAME.

    1 vote
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  3. Display NZ activated Portfolios even if Related Records Services are enabled in an IZ

    In our consortial environement, we have activaded a number of portfolios on NZ level, which we would then expect to also be available in our IZs. Often this is not the case and instead of a specific article that is part of the portfolio, only the journal it belongs to is displayed under Services for Related Titles. As Ex Libris informed us, this is because Related Records Services are activated in our consortium, which leads the link resolver to display those related journals instead of checking if there is an NZ activated portfolio. Their solution to this would be to…

    24 votes
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  4. Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings integration) - American Mathematical Society (AMS)

    Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for American Mathematical Society (AMS), as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, Springer, Project MUSE, JSTOR

    3 votes
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  5. Add an ability to change the "owning library" at acquisitions level

    Organizational mergers or splits of libraries can occur at any time, necessitating the management of changes in the library landscape even after the migration process.

    They involve the transfer of collections and data between libraries. While Alma supports the transfers of holding and item information between libraries, there are currently (as of Dec‘24) technical limitations when it comes to moving acquisitions data. This functionality is not yet supported by Alma.

    We therefore propose implementing a solution that facilitates the seamless transfer of purchase orders, invoices, as well as linked vendor data and budget transactions between (owning) libraries within Alma. There…

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  6. Add number of requested pages of a Digitization Request to Analytics

    In Alma a digitization request shows a note field containing the Start page and End page as submitted via the request form.
    This information doesn't appear in Analytics.
    We would like to be able to report on the number of pages requested for digitization.

    11 votes
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  7. Add a "Pick up location" line under the "Pick Up Requested Resources" columns

    For institutions with multiple campuses that share items, there is no way to see what the pick-up location for an item is on the Pickup Requested Resources page. you must export the data to excel, print it out, process the hold, or search for the item's request separately. This creates a lot of unnecessary steps for such simple information and makes it difficult for institutions that track item movement between campuses. My suggestion is to add a line in the columns under each request that states what the pick-up location is. View files to see example. Thank you

    18 votes
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  8. Option to NOT receive ticket updates 'Report to ExLibris'

    Add a 'Report to ExLibris' option to NOT receive ticket updates.
    Use case: I report that an ebook title in a huge Open Access collection is, in fact, not open access. I view this as a standard cleanup task. We've likely already suppressed the record from our catalog and don't need to track the ticket or receive updates. It generates many unnecessary emails.

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  9. thumbnail download blocking function from ALMA-D viewer screen

    In addition to the Main Window where the image is shown in the Universal Viewer, user can right-click and print in a separate window showing the guide and the empty space of the Contents window showing the file of the title as a list. Please block the download function so that the function is not used.

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  10. Allow for Pinning/Saving and Labeling of Searches from Resource Request Monitoring

    Have the ability to have either an institutional and/or individual ability to save a commonly used search. There are some routine tasks involving Hold lists that would be made more efficient if we could save/pin and name those searches/tasks to our dashboard. An example is pulling just Hold Shelf Processing items from the Resource Request Monitoring. While not difficult to do, having a way to save a few clicks from reentering the search each time would save a few minutes per day and over time hours of work time. This might be viable for other functions within alma as well.

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  11. Additional Local Parameter fields in Local Authorities dimension

    There can be up to 100 local fields 9xx in the "Local Authorities" and none of them can be retrieved in Analytics. Could it be possible to have, at least, the same number of "Local Params" as in the he "Physical Items" or the "Titles" table?
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/080Analytics/Alma_Analytics_Subject_Areas/Physical_Items#Local_Param

    Thanks.

    15 votes
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  12. Search function in Monitor Jobs Menu

    In the menu "Monitor Jobs" (Admin -> Manage Jobs and Sets -> Monitor Jobs) there is no search function for the Scheduled Jobs. For all other Tabs (Scheduled Manual Jobs ; Running ; History) there is a search function. As we have many Scheduled Jobs it would be very useful if a search function could be implemented as in the other tabs.

    Thank you

    6 votes
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  13. Quick Links for Alma Cloud Apps

    The quick links (available through the "Alma Production" button) for the most used functions in Alma are very usefull. We would appreciate if Alma Cloud Apps could also be selected as favourites and saved as quick links. It would also be great, if selected Cloud Apps could also be accessed with a key board shortcut (hot key).

    7 votes
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  14. Include in webhooks information on which user triggered the event (especially for items and users)

    There are numerous scenarios where knowing which user performed the action that triggered the webhook would be useful, like selectively acting on triggers based on permissions and automatic staff error handling. Currently webhooks only include whether the action was performed in the UI or not.

    5 votes
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  15. Enable forcing barcode number for new items

    When cataloguing a new item, we wish to force cataloguers to add barcode number before save. If some libraries do not want that, forcing the barcode field could be optional.

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  16. Allow POL and INV Line 'Save' with errors. NOT 'Save and Continue'--just 'Save'.

    We occasionally need to create a POL on the fly, and before I've set up the relevant fund--usually because a vendor needs a POL number right away, but information in hand can be incomplete for other reasons as well.

    'Save and Continue' should remain totally impossible without mandatory fields completed, but it's annoying to have to re-start work from scratch when I realize I'm missing a bit of info, e.g. price or fund. As it is, I usually just throw in a fake price and an existing fund as a placeholder, but those just blend in if I get de-railed…

    4 votes
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  17. More options for configure the UI for Manage Patron services

    The Left Pane of The new Manage Patron services UI includes User Information.
    The display of information in this section is configurable from Configuration > Fulfillment > Patron Configurations > Patron Services User Card Fields.

    It would be great help for us if certain fields would also be among these.
    Field: Primary ID and Field: Identifyer (Identifyer type barcode)

    Specially Primary ID should be able to hide for many places.

    3 votes
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  18. Update expiration on roles in bulk

    We expire the roles for our student workers each semester, since they don't always come back to us after breaks. It would be nice if there was a way to update the expiration date of selected roles in bulk. I can see the benefit of having granularity of control on individual roles, like if someone's job function was changing after a certain point, but that's not a common scenario. It would be a lot easier if we could change a selection of them all at once, on both the user management screen and in the profile configurations. Even if I'm…

    3 votes
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  19. Daily quota of ISO-ILL Lending requests

    We would like to determine a daily quota of ISO-ILL Lending requests, like with RapidILL.
    Ideally, Alma would automatically reject requests beyond the quota and send them to other ISO Partners.

    14 votes
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  20. Feature Requests for the NZ Fulfillment Network

    1. Access to Borrowing History Across NZ Institutions
      • Feature Request:
      Enable librarians to view the borrowing history of their university patrons at other NZ institutions.
      • Current Situation:
      a. On Network Activity tab, it only displays current FN loans and current FN requests.
      b. Librarians cannot directly access the borrowing history or detailed transfer records when their patron borrows books from another NZ institution.
      c. Assistance from librarians at the other institution is required, which delays service and limits the ability to provide comprehensive patron support.

    2. Show more information on Network Activity tab
      • Feature Request:
      On Network Activity tab,…

    125 votes
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