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  1. Adding a field “Item Inventory Price” to the view customization table, as well as export files in item search results

    It would be very useful and is much anticipated by customers to be able add a field containing Item’s Inventory Price to the Item information tile in the item search results in Alma.
    The field should be added to the first column of the Manage Column Display/Customize View.
    In addition, we would like to have this field added to export files that are created under the command: Export to Excel (current view / all fields).

    The National Library of Poland cooperates with 141 libraries. During consultations with other institutions most of them raised necessity of such solution.
    Item Inventory Price…

    203 votes
    5 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  2. Add RFID Support for Ship Items

    Where there is an RFID integration Profile, an RFID icon shows up at the Scan In Interface and Patron Services WB, allowing to scan in items using RFID.

    The same icon should allow also shipping resource sharing items using their RFID information in the Ship Items interface

    3 votes
    Accepted  ·  0 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  3. Additional Locations for Shelf Report

    The ability to select multiple locations for the Shelf Report tool would be very valuable. For example, if we scan multiple floors but each floor is a separate location, we end up with a large number of items skew the report and require us running the same report again and trying to weed out the overlaps. This would also simplify the report if collections were intermixed within a physical location such as Floor 1 and Floor 1 - non-circulating or Floor 2 and Floor 2 - Oversized.

    20 votes
    3 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  4. Serials: Editing of Description Needed

    When opening predicted items, the Description-Field is populated by the data provided in “Next Predicted Item´s information” and displays these data in a certain punctuation-logic. Unfortunately, this logic is not equal to the description- (and punctuation-) logic used in German speaking countries (which is following ZETA-Standard) – and there is no possibility to edit this. Since there has to be a correct description (for sorting etc.), the only way is to open and edit every single item once it is created by prediction pattern. This is causing a lot of unnecessary work to be done manually - we need the…

    283 votes
    4 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  5. Check for existing barcode in import profile

    I would like to see a setting in the import profile to check the IZ for the pre-existence of the incoming barcode. Publishing and importing can be a fairly blunt tool that leads either to too many or too few objects being imported. When importing large numbers of records, there should be a setting in the match tab that looks for that barcode and rejects the item if that barcode already exists. This would prevent needless duplication especially when publishing on the bib level.

    45 votes
    Accepted  ·  3 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  6. Collaborative Collections - Index 583 more fully

    Collaborative collecting agreements are becoming increasingly critical for libraries in managing collections and access across institutions. Formal agreements require libraries to update records with an appropriate Action Note (583 field) to note these commitments. Currently, only $a of the action note is indexed. All fields of the 583 (when present in bibs or holdings) should be indexed, or at a minimum $c, $d, $f and $5.

    51 votes
    Accepted  ·  6 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  7. Add "item policy" and "temporary location" automatically to predicted issues

    Acquisition librarians want to add automatically the "item policy" and "temporary location" to predicted issues to speed up their work and limit the number of clicks. At this moment the added value of prediction pattern functionality is being restricted by the lack of functionality (parameter setting) …
    Use case: It’s not possible to add the item policy/temporary location as a parameter to continuous pol’s. If issues are created via prediction patterns the item policy/temporary location should be indicated automatically based upon parameter settings on pol level. This would save a lot of time and additional clicks when receiving the issues.…

    492 votes
    8 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →
    Accepted  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    When creating a a POL, it will be possible to also define a default item policy and temporary location. This will be used when items are created (by a prediction pattern or manually) on POL or at receive time

  8. Add ability to reorder Description Template Setup Rules using drag and drop

    The Description Template Setup Rules list must continually be reordered, since the first (sequentially) rule for which the enum/chron combination meets all criteria is used for the description, even if the enum/chron would more exactly meet a later rule. Regardless, is is also helpful to order the list so that similar rules are grouped together, so reordering would desirable as rules are added or removed.

    Currently, the only way to reorder the list is to move a selected rule up or down in the list, ONE PLACE AT A TIME. This is time consuming and inefficient.

    Please add the ability…

    199 votes
    Accepted  ·  16 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →
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