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Allow 'learning technologist' role to see all lists/course information associated with a specific Academic Department
As we work with Academic Departments, we increasingly find that a departmental colleague has a key role as a "learning technologist" or admin in the VLE (CMS) Blackboard Moodle, Canvas etc etc. In order to help them manage and support reading list creation across an entire department it would really help if it was possibly to associate a User in Alma with an Academic department so they could see all the lists associated with that department, whether draft or published.
NB because of the numbers, this idea would return us to the issue of librarians seeing too much in My…
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Show Course Term, Course Year, and Academic Department in the header of "Edit reading list" page in Alma
When staff are working on reading lists in Alma from the Reading List task list, they go into a list - the Edit Reading List page, and the top of the page gives some summary information in a header above the citations, however this header lacks some simple but helpful reference information about the course (where relevant), i.e.
Course term
Course Year
Academic Department
It would be useful to add these so as not to lose the context of what you are working on when going in and out of many reading lists over time.5 votesAvailable in July release
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Add a link to Leganto from individual Citations in the "Citations View" in Alma
It would be useful if there was a 'View in Leganto' link from the Citations view in Alma - i.e. the "Edit Citations" list does not currently (Feb 2018) have a way of getting to the equivalent citation or list from Alma; it seems inconsistent with the Reading List Task List which does offer a "View in Leganto" option to navigate form Alma to Leganto.
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Share "My collection" with other as an extra feature
To share "My collection" would be a good thing for instructors/librarians who work in the same field of education. It's in some way like sharing your EndNote library.
"My collection" will contain citations that are not necessarily published in a course list, but still could be of use for others. This regards citations shared from one researcher to another but not necessarily in a reading list and/or citations processed by the library.2 votes2023 New UI provides the option to add items from favorites to a reading list in bulk. Instructors can create a list from favorites and publish or share with specific collaborators.
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Record date/time and user ID of student who reports a broken link
Current scenario: student marks a link as broken, we filter in Alma to find the citations with Report of broken link. We fix this if it is broken but just as frequently we are unable to identify any reason for the report.
We need to be able to respond to the student to alert them to the fact that we have fixed the link, alert them to the fact that it coincided with reported downtime for a resource or contact them to investigate why they are unable to access the resource (when there does not appear to be a problem).
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19 votesDeveloped as part of the Leganto January release
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Retain permalinks after rollover
We would like a parameter that on rollover, the 'old' reading list will be associated with the new course, so that existing permalinks will not require updating.
We have not used the rollover function because we are concerned of the impact on the permalinks created by our instructors to lists, sections and citations in our new VLE.
14 votesOctober 2018 release
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Option to reset the usage statistics without doing a rollover
We have not used the rollover function in Leganto. Our main concern is that permalinks made in the VLE to sections/citations would no longer work. We have no way of checking where permalinks are in use.
The main thing that we would want to gain from performing a rollover each academic year is to reset the usage statistics which are on view to instructors back to zero, together with any student comments and likes. We are not particularly concerned to create new copies of a course as there is nothing to distinguish one year's module from the next in our…
67 votesAvailable in June 2020 release
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Association of multiple courses to one reading list (HLD)
Please find attached high level design which describes the suggested solution to support the ability to associate multiple courses to one reading list in Leganto.
The suggested solution is based on feedbacks we already got from some of you previously.
Please review the document and reply back with your questions or issues you might find.39 votes -
Stopping list creation from Leganto interface
Allow libraries to configure an option to stop academics creating new reading lists from the Leganto interface, but still allow them to edit lists created by the library.
99 votesAvailable in New UI February release.
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Adding a collaborator needs to assign instructor role
Faculty want to add a collaborator. They can only see users who already have the instructor role, so they can't add the collaborator. That means they have to notify the library to add the role which holds them up from their work on the list.
They should be able to search for a specific user, add them as collaborator and that should assign the instructor role (the way it does when we load courses).
Not all our reserves staff have the User Manager role, so if we have to deal with this manually we will have to give all reserve…
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Automatically set citation to "Complete" after "Resource Locate"; and to "Ready for Processing" after "Detach from Repository" in Alma
User Story:
As a Library staff who needs to process Reading List Citations in Alma, I want Citation to be automatically set to Complete following a "Resource Locate", as these resources are within the Institutional Alma Repository. This would resolve the additional "Set Complete" clicking required for each citation, and improve the work efficiency of Library staff.
I also want completed Citations to be automatically set to Ready for Processing following "Detach from Repository", as they may require follow up actions. This can reduce any chance of an unprocessed citation remaining "Complete" status, and reduce frustration for the reading list…5 votes -
Declaration text header for Add Item Manually/Upload file workflow
Add a declaration text header option for when users click on "Add Item Manually/Upload File" analogous to the digitizationrequestheader. The idea is that we could communicate to faculty our expectations about fair use when uploading items. If this header option existed, we would add something like:
"The Libraries supports courses by scanning and electronically delivering course related materials for use as course readings or for other instructional uses. NOTE: Usage must meet Fair Use Guidelines (Title 17, US Code) unless copyright permission has been obtained. Utilize the Fair Use Analysis Tool (https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts) to help make your…1 vote -
Add task in Alma to easily identify "Reading Lists with Citation Link Reported as Broken"
User Story: As a Library staff who needs to process Leganto Reading Lists, I want to be able view "Reading Lists with Citation Link Reported as Broken" as an Alma Task, so that I can immediately identify and remediate Reading Lists with citation resource issues (such as broken links).
Current scenario:
1. Go to Alma Fulfillment > Course Reserves > Reading Lists
2. Click on 'All' tab (takes several seconds to load the page)
3. Select "Citation Link Reported as Broken" from Alerts filterExpected scenario:
1. Go to Alma Tasks > Reading List - citation link reported as broken20 votesThis request was added and developed in the Leganto Feb. 2018 release
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Tags - Library, Instructors & Public
We've created a number of Citation tags for internal Library-staff use to handle Reading List requests.
e.g(Library use) eJournal check required
(Library use) Permissions required
(Library use) ILL request placed
(Library use) scanning requiredIn the Tag Mapping table, we can set the visibility to Library or Public.
"Library" visibility includes Library staff and Leganto course instructors and collaborators.
We do not want Instructors to use these tags, but they display by default in Leganto, and so could cause confusion if they apply these tags.We would like to have a setting that only shows to Library staff to…
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Show availability in results list when searching library catalog (instructor)
Instructors should see results when they search so they know if copies are available, from their library/branch, and to be able to check a link from the search level to see if it's the one they want (so they don't have to go back and delete if not).
8 votesThis is now available using the "More details" link added in the December 2024 release.
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Academic Departments - add field for Faculty/School
Academic Departments within institutions often sit under Faculty or School groups. This is currently not represented in Alma or Leganto. Could we have a new (optional) field added for School/Faculty both to the Academic Department area and have it available in Analytics.
198 votesThis is available as of the May 2025 release, for reporting purposes only. We will add to the course loader in a future release.
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Control order of list display for multiple lists associated with a course
For courses which have multiple lists, each of which may have a time focus, the display order of lists is not always as desired by the title sort alone, e.g. Week 1 vs Week 11. It would be useful to be able to control the order of list display when there are multiple lists.
6 votesdone in November 2018 release
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Support presentation of reading lists in an iFrame within VLE / LMS
Ex Libris currently do not recommend integrating Leganto reading lists within a VLE / LMS using an iframe, as there is an issue with cookies.
Users receive an "Illegal Institution" message on certain browsers (eg. Safari on macOS) with the cookie policy as in browser default.
We would like to ask for this issue to be re-investigated by Ex Libris and an alternative proposed for roadmap development that fixes the issue without inelegant workarounds such as manually altering browser cookie policies or using a different web browser - noting that these workarounds are not always possible for users depending on…
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Add instructors automatically using role in LTI launch request
A course can have a number of instructors teaching on it, and it might be difficult to keep the details of the instructors of courses and owners of reading lists up to date in Alma.
Rather than having to update these details manually, or pre-load them using the Course loading integration profile, I suggest that there is an option for the LTI Integration profile to automatically assign an instructor of a course and owner of the associated reading lists, if the user in the LTI launch request has a role of "instructor."
Even better if the Alma "Instructor" role could…
16 votesDone in December 2017 release
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Incorporate Blackboard Student View into LTI Integration
Currently, the Blackboard LTI integration does not allow instructors to use Student View to see reading lists from the student's perspective. (Doing so results in error: 400 Unknown user id.) Please allow the temporary student that is created in Blackboard to be created in Alma, thereby enabling Student View.
21 votes
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