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  1. Support for browsing, sorting and display by LC classification/call number, regardless of format

    I think Alma/Primo should strive to replicate a genuine browsing experience of the stacks as a feature. That functionality adds value to librarians and libraries (we can do things Google can't) and value to titles themselves, because they appear to users in a disciplinary content, part of a visible collection not just part of an aggregation / repository of searchable content.

    Better system support for integrated shelf list of print and electronic resources and browsing virtual stacks would be a win/win. It would help librarians maintain strong visible collections (we need the information too) and would help our online users…

    2 votes
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  2. Hope to have a separate Read-Only privilege for Users' contact information

    The role "Circulation Desk Operator - Limited" lost the priviledge to check user's contact information after July release. To protect users' privacy and manage data, we cannot assign "privilege : User Manage Update" to this limited role as it has right to change customer's information. However our librarians will need to check users' contact information frequently at the Circulation Desk. Requesting the contact information from higher level librarian will reduce the efficiency.

    We hope to have a separate Read-Only privilege for Users' contact information, then we could assign this privilege to limited role based on our workflow.

    1 vote
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  3. Lost Loan Status

    Closing a lost loan changes the item's status to missing. This means that items we know are lost will turn up on lists for missing item searches, even though we know we won't find them. Not closing the loans means that we can't purge patrons from the database, even if we know that we are not going to get back the item or be paid the replacement fee.

    It would be preferable if items retained a status of Lost even if the loan is closed, so that we can differentiate between items that are lost and items that just can't…

    18 votes
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  4. Loan receipt with calendar reminder event

    It was very useful to have a calendar reminder for student/staff when they received the Loan receipt. It could be an outlook calendar file, Google calendar or event.

    3 votes
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  5. Collection Discovery should support Bookshelf (Shelf List) Browse

    Collection Discovery is a nice feature in Alma, but it would be much better if it could be a virtual bookshelf browse tool of new titles in user defined disciplines.

    Currently, Collection Managers can create collections of titles based on titles sets or title by title additions, but titles within these collections are displayed to users in random order, not as a meaningful collections, and with limited bibliographic information appearing.

    The random arrangement is not pleasing, especially in an academic research setting. It would also be ideal to have the ability to be able to harvest out new titles to…

    4 votes
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  6. Metadata Editor should allow to move up or down a field position in a bib. record, like in a spreadsheet.

    When there are multiple fields within the same group number, like 5XX, 6XX, 7XX fields, it would be particularly useful to organize also the fields' position in the bibliographic record manually in each group in an easy way, like drag and drop in a spreadsheet. When improving my record with a template, for example, the added fields come always last of their group. In order to follow the rules of AACR II and RDA, more flexibility in changing the position of the fields in the record (not only copy/paste) will be helpful.

    2 votes
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  7. Add the NOT Boolean operator to the Advanced Search in Alma

    Advanced Search in Alma contains currently only AND and OR Boolean operators - it would be very useful to have the NOT operator included, so that we can exclude particular records from Logical Sets, rather than creating 2 Logical sets and then combining them with NOT, resulting always in an Itemized set.

    21 votes
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  8. Make ALMA run faster, overall.

    Reduce the amount of time we need to wait after clicking on an option, module or function.

    3 votes
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  9. Add suppress functionality to context menu in list of holdings

    When a staff member is looking at a list of holdings for a physical title, the right-click context menu / actions (ellipsis) menu should include a function to suppress holding.

    It's inefficient to have to enter the MDE to complete this action. It's inefficient to have to run a job for just a few holdings at a time.

    34 votes
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  10. Make Public Note of a Representation Translatable

    The public note of a representation is not translatable. This would be useful for following use cases:

    • The library wants to offer high-resolution digital reproductions of individual files from representations on demand.
    • The library wants to comment on the quality of files from a representations (eg. not OCRed).
    • The library wants to inform, that the digital files does not contain complete content, etc.

    By now following components in relation with digital content are translatable :

    • Collection name and description
    • Copyright declarations
    • The denied note in the access right policy

    It would offer a more streamline experience to discover digital content,…

    24 votes
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  11. Alma User Role for Editing/Deleting only Quick-Cataloged Records

    Scenario:
    Library staff frequently need to create records for resources using the Quick Cataloging feature. Often, those records need to be edited after creation, due to mismatching resource types, updated information, operator input errors, etc. Most of the staff using the Quick Cataloging feature are not trained as catalogers, and do not have cataloging roles in Alma.

    Problem:
    Quick-Cataloged records are not editable by staff without cataloging roles in Alma - who are frequently the creators/managers of these records. This has led to several different workarounds at various institutions:

    Some institutions have given their non-cataloging staff full cataloging permissions to…

    65 votes
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  12. Enhance Convert to Resource Sharing function on Pick From Shelf List

    When you don't find a requested item at your institution, it is great to be able to 'convert it to a resource sharing request' -- however that function should mark the item missing from our institution. Since pick from shelf does NOT display barcode and once we select the item to be converted to resource sharing request, it disappears from the pick from shelf list, so it is very difficult and time consuming to find the item and toggle it to missing. Also, the resource sharing request might be canceled because the item at our institution shows up as 'item…

    67 votes
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  13. Enable the customization of the label of Unpaywall API link.

    The unpaywall link displays with the label of "Unpaywall" in the ViewIt window of Primo. This may not be an intuitive description for some users.

    We would like the option to change the service label as we do for other services in Alma.

    29 votes
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  14. Receive notification should trigger when item is received

    Currently, when entering a POL and having it set to notify someone when the item is received, the notification is not sent until it fully completes the receiving, cataloging, then being checked in at the fulfillment desk.

    To keep from items showing up as "available" when received, we have it set to "keep items in area." But because of this, the receive notifications do not trigger until the whole process is complete.

    We have some of our receiving and invoicing separate. Items will come in and go through the whole process before the trigger that they are received and the…

    6 votes
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  15. Allow more configuration for library item of interest notification

    The "library item of interest" message currently doesn't allow much room for configuration, particularly for the bibliographic portion of the message. It includes something labeled a title field (which includes the title, place of publication and publisher, publication date, series, and ISBN) and an MMS ID field. This data seems to be pulled from the brief order record. Would it be possible to make this section of the notification more configurable -- so that more data (like author) might be included, and so that everything currently mapped to the "title" field could be disaggregated into individual fields (place of publication…

    2 votes
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  16. Show Call Number on Loan Receipt Letter

    Could there be an option to add the call number information to the Loan Receipt Letter. It would be useful, especially for items with multiple volumes.

    4 votes
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  17. Search External Resources - Review Existing Ideas & Redesign Z39.50 Search & Refine Options

    I have just checked out the search and refine options available via the Jisc Cataloguing Hub Web interface. It allows a much richer search experience than accessing the same data via the Z39.50 interface via Alma Search External Resources. As colleagues have posted a number of ideas around reviewing and enhancing the search options would it be possible to combine these ideas and carry out a general review of how we can search and refine the results?
    I attach a screenshot showing the options in the Cataloguing Hub.

    1 vote
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  18. Analytics' job history activation

    On Analytics, the job history is not accessible. It would be interesting to give access to this feature, for instance when developing a new report, it is sometimes good to have the history of what has been done. Thanks.

    1 vote
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  19. Add Publisher attribute to Search External Resources

    We would like to be able to search the Japanese academic common catalog (NACSIS) by Publisher name in Search External Resources, but the corresponding use attribute (1018) is not currently supported. This would be very useful when searching by title or keywords, to differentiate between similar results. We think that this addition would be useful with other external resources too.

    https://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/about/infocat/z3950/z3950_gw_bib1-use.html

    1 vote
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  20. Undo receipt of item on a continuous type order for which "Keep in Department" was not checked

    While it is currently possible to “un-receive” from the receiving workbench if the item is still in the Acquisitions Department, that will not be the case for our continuous orders.

    There is no good option for undoing the accidental receipt of a serial issue, at least not that our trainer was able to show us in our Alma Functional Workshop.

    63 votes
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