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Bulk updating of citations across reading lists
Situation
One of our tasks in checking reading lists is ensuring that the version of each title is the latest edition. Acquisitions staff will check book citations on a reading list and, if there is a newer edition available, purchase and replace the citation on the list with this new version.Problem
When a specific title is used on multiple lists, Acquisitions staff are having to manually identify all citations using this title, add the newer edition to the reading list, and remove the older edition from the reading list.Staff are also having to manually transfer any specific reading/public/resource…
247 votesWe are closing this idea as the functionality requested in the original idea can be done using the new edition replacement feature requested via NERS. See the April 2023 release notes for more information: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Leganto/Release_Notes/2023/Leganto_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202304BASE
There is also a video showing the feature: https://youtu.be/yo-U31sxhzo?si=29LoGLH803yqgALY
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Allow bulk update to material type of citations
When adding citations that are ebooks, it is common that the material type is not correctly populated as 'ebook'. The material type often presents as an empty field or as a 'book'
Statistically our institution is tracking analytics to monitor how many citations are print books vs ebooks. In order to perform this reporting accurately, the material type of these ebook citations needs to be updated.
There are additional situations where material types could be consolidated (For example citations can come through as 'Video','Streaming','Streaming Video') and we would like to consolidate these into a single Video material type.
Currently this…
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Add year field to course bulk update job
The course bulk update job can be used to update most of the key fields for each course, eg terms, start dates - but not the year.
We don't want to have to update the year field manually for all of our courses, so can this option be added to the course bulk update job?
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Allow new (custom) type when creating a citation
I understand that this may be a complex undertaking since a new citation type will impact interoperability with Alma (and Primo). However, is there possibly a way to provide the function to create basic custom types that are mapped to a min. number of fields (title, author / creator, date source, file; or DC fields). For example, our staff wanted to create type 'tutorial' which does not exist (they are using the 'website' as a workaround).
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Section IDs in Analytics
We currently have an issue where staff are wanting to add Section permalinks into a VLE called Insendi. It would be great if Section IDs added to Analytics or to the API. In order that we could create a report that creates section permalinks to be added to Insendi.
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DCS Synchronise job to run more frequently
The DCS Synchronise job can currently only be scheduled to run once every day at 23:00. It would be helpful if this job could be scheduled to run more frequently throughout the day, for example every 4 hours. This would streamline the DCS integration and allow requests to be updated and made available more quickly.
For example, if an urgent digitisation request has been processed via the DCS, it will not update on the reading list in Leganto until later on in the evening, unless staff manually update the citation using the Update DCS status action. If the job could…
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Allow website to be default CiteIt! material type rather than Other
When checking lists created by academics, when they use Citeit! and if the site is not recognised/supported, the default material type chosen by Citeit! is "Other", but other is not very helpful when almost all of the time the material type is effectively website at least by definition. It would be useful if it was possible to configure it to default non-recignised/supported websites to be added as Website citation material type (non repository citations added via CiteIt!) as it would save Library staff having to edit these for no real benefit, either in terms of metadata checks, or in terms…
22 votesAvailable in October release
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Automatically create first section when creating a list
All lists have at least one section, meaning creating the first section is a mandatory step. This step could be automated, and the first section created instantly as the list is created.
The tooltip could be used to inform about how to edit the title (not strictly necessary), instead of how to create the section (mandatory).An alternative would be to offer a template out of the box with one section, replacing the existing blank template.
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Add appointment button in the reading list
Implement an automatic citations button in the bibliographic lists (student view), similar to Primo. This will allow teachers and students to cite the course bibliography
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Improve usability of Get It in citation view (when primove_getit = true)
At present the size of the iframe for availability of physical resources is not customisable. It is of such a size that if the user wants to make use of request forms, or there are many holdings it entails scrolling.
It would be great if this area was responsive rather than fixed size, but even being able to customise the size might help in the interim.
Illustration: https://www.screencast.com/t/2RR7s2OVm
With primove_getit = false a responsive experience exists, but it has it's own usability issues and we want a consistence experience between Primo VE and Leganto and do not want to manage…
10 votesAvailable in August release.
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Make online links available while file is waiting for copyright approval
If a citation (added either via the Primo search in Leganto, or via CiteIt) has an online link, then this is displayed for students (even if the item is still BeingPrepared instead of Complete).
But if the instructor then also uploads a file to the item and copyright approval is needed then
a) the file is unavailable to students until it's approved - this is good! and
b) the online link is now also unavailable to students until the file is approvedWe'd like the online link to remain available regardless of whether or not a file is waiting for…
3 votesAvailable in June release
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Define course dates automatically from LTI launch
Currently when creating a course via LTI, the course name, course code, and course ID are automatically filled in. But the course start date and end date aren't, so default to the dates configured as default in Alma, or to the current day's date.
This is extra work for the library to maintain and/or for lecturers to update, and this risks errors creeping in which could affect our copyright clearance reporting.
Can the course dates data be automatically brought across via LTI into the Leganto course?
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Allow general messages to be scheduled
The ability to schedule general messages in Leganto would streamline the workflow for time-sensitive messages e.g. messages relating to scheduled downtime would automatically be taken down after the date the downtime occurs.
28 votesAvailable in Feb release.
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Configure general messages to be viewable to instructors only, students only or both
The general message feature in the December 2020 release is a useful way to display messages to all Leganto users (such as scheduled downtime or important library messages).
The functionality could be enhanced to allow general messages to be configured to only be viewed by instructors or students (or both if required). This would be useful in a number of scenarios and allow more targeted messages to be prominently displayed to relevant users at the point of need.
For example:
- reminders to academic staff to check their lists prior to rollover
- reminder to academic staff to submit lists…35 votesAvailable in Feb release
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Simplify copyright clearance request workflow
Currently instructors create an item, upload a file, and select the kind of copyright (eg self-declared, or no declaration, etc). At this point it looks to the instructor as if they've done everything they need to do. Nothing reminds them they need to also fill out a copyright clearance form, or where to find it (since this involves opening the item in a completely different way). As a result we expect most instructors will forget/skip this important step.
We'd like the instructors to be able to do everything on a single screen. Ie when they create the item, they should…
6 votesAvailable in March release in the new UI interface.
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Display percentage of copyright item
Currently when a lecturer puts through a copyright clearance form, it shows them the page range in Leganto, and in Alma it shows librarians the page range, the total required pages, and the total number of pages in the full item. We'd like it to also display the percentage, where this can be calculated.
Eg if a book is 400 pages and someone requests clearance for pages 21-40:
In Alma on the Approval Request screen where the librarian sees:
"Resource Total Pages
400
Required Pages
21-40
Total Required Pages
20"we'd like to also see
"Percentage
5%"And if possible…
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CiteIt - finish loading form after logging in
We're set up with SAML (Shibboleth) authentication, but lecturers aren't usually logged in with this already, so when they use the CiteIt button they'll be prompted to login.
Current behaviour is that they click the button, the SAML login screen opens in a new tab, and on successfully authenticating that tab takes them to the Leganto homepage. Lecturers have to switch back to the original tab and click the bookmarklet again.
It would be nice if, after the lecturer is logged in:
a) ideally the tab would close again;b) more importantly the CiteIt form would now automatically pop up…
0 votesAdditional login option was added in June 2021.
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Give book extract citation type its own title field
We like the concept of the book extract citation type, but would like it to operate more like a book chapter type rather than an article.
We would like to give them titles like "Questions from Chapter 14", or use section headings that may be on the page of the book. If there was nothing obvious to use in the book, then we could make up a description of the extract [Extract from ch. 4].
For students this would give them a clearer idea of what they are supposed to read rather than just seeing the whole book title.
For…
181 votesAvailable in October release
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Auto-populate start/end pages in copyright clearance form
When a lecturer submits a copyright clearance form it's pre-populated with the course availability dates, but the start/end pages aren't pre-populated even when they're already in the citation (see attached screenshot for an example). Automatically populating this information would save lecturer time, and decrease the likelihood of them neglecting to enter it so would also save library staff time.
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Ability to batch select and delete/copy/move citations in List sections (similar to Collections).
COLLECTION has a tick box feature that allows you to select multiple items to delete/import/export. In the List Sections, there is no such feature. For larger lists, it is cumbersome to delete/move/copy citations because it has to be done individually. It would be very useful to have the batch selection feature.
5 votes
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