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  1. Stop adding reading lists automatically when looking at them

    At the moment, when students look at a reading list in an LMS it's automatically added to their "My Lists" area in Leganto.

    According to Ex Libris this is by design but they are open to change this depending on how popular this idea turns out to be.
    (see Case 973700)

    We don't think that just a short glance at a syllabus justifies a list being added - most likey unbeknownst to the students themselves.
    And if they want to add a list, it's only one click on the Add button.

    We don't want the feature to be abolished, but…

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  2. Create brand new courses during rollover

    When we import course data into Alma, we use a program that extracts all the courses from our course database and produces a ready-to-use import file for any given institution. The course ID in this file is typically something like COURSE-AUTUMN-2021 (Course code, semester and year).

    We use the same file if we want to run a rollover, with some manual changes to it. We don't check if the courses we extracted are new, or if there is an existing course in Alma for the year before. Our starting point is the COURSE-ID column, and in OLD-COURSE-ID we write the…

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  3. Filter "My lists" by course

    Some instructors have many lists. It would be useful if they could filter based on year and semester in addition to the existing sorting options.

    45 votes
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  4. Predefined searches to Find lists

    It is possible to create simple search-links to Leganto that gives you a list of reading lists that matches the query, e.g.:
    https://bibsys-xc.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/readinglist/searchlists?search=MGUEN101&auth=SAML

    We would like the possibility to use other and more specified fields the same way and build up an advanced search URL.

    Practical use-case: In the February 2021 release of Leganto new search fields were added to the advanced search for Term and Year. It would be useful to create a link that searches for reading lists for a specific year/term.

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  5. HTML in list notes and list and sections' description fields

    In some cases, an instructor needs to provide extra information to their student by referring to an external website.
    Use case: "All the citations in this section cannot be booked through the library but can be found in the compendium. More information <a>here</a>."

    It would be very useful to use HTML in the list notes, or in the description field of the list or sections. Both so instructors can use links, but also to make the information more visible if it comes after a long list of citations (in the case of a list note).

    57 votes
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  6. Service Temporarily Unavailable Message from Primo to appear in Leganto

    In Alma, you can configure a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message via the service labels. This can then be applied to electronic collections in Alma, and displays when viewed in Primo.

    As this functionality already exists in Alma/Primo, I feel it should be extended to appear in Leganto as well, otherwise Users are not getting information about services being unavailable.

    68 votes
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  7. Option to rename/customise the Rialto 'Add Items' search scope

    We have recently turned on the option for instructors to 'add items' using Rialto but this terminology is confusing for them.

    We would like the option to customise this heading e.g. 'Search our book supplier' or 'Rialto (Library book supplier)'
    This should encourage use and facilitate training.

    We would much prefer instructors use Rialto rather than Cite It to harvest from publisher websites. Cite It often misses key bib information and/or brings in erroneous e-links.

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  8. Option to rename/customise the Rialto 'Add Items' search scope

    We have recently turned on the option for instructors to 'add items' using Rialto but this terminology is confusing for them.

    We would like the option to customise this heading e.g. 'Search our book supplier' or 'Rialto (Library book supplier)'
    This should encourage use and facilitate training.

    We would much prefer instructors use Rialto rather than Cite It to harvest from publisher websites. Cite It often misses key bib information and/or brings in erroneous e-links.

    2 votes
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  9. Add information about who published the list to Course Reserves SA in Analytics

    Information about the person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject Area in Analytics. We need this solution for better reporting and list management.

    Right now, information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level (registered as a separate idea https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/395697-leganto/suggestions/43545540-who-published-the-list-should-be-displayed-in-read) and available in Analytics.

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  10. Who published the list should be displayed in Reading List Information in Alma

    Information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level and placed next to the Review Requester field.

    We need this solution for better reporting and list management. We believe that this should be an easy fix, as all of the information is already available in the system.

    Information about person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject…

    49 votes
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  11. Rejected Purchase Request - not detaching brief BIB in Alma Course Reserves

    If we place a Purchase Request through Alma Course Reserves - the system generates a brief BIB with MMS ID against the citation. But if the Purchase Request is Rejected, the brief BIB is deleted from Alma (proper) but not from Alma Course Reserves and the citation remains resource located against the brief BIB that will not be fulfilled.

    Currently, we are manually detaching these citations but do think that if the brief BIB is deleting in Alma proper it should be reflecting in Alma Course Reserve.

    Can the brief BIB be removed from the citation in Alma Course Reserves…

    30 votes
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  12. allow course archiving as well as reading list

    The title says it all. Alma allows you to archive reading lists, which is useful--this leaves them as reportable in Analytics but removes them from Alma -- however strangely this function does not exist for at the course level, including the course that contains any archived reading lists. Since we get new course records every semester, this leaves a lot of expired courses that our reserves staff have to wade through, and makes this archiving feature note very useful for the course management workflow. If you deleted courses, any reading lists that had been archived would disappear from Analytics.

    I…

    28 votes
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  13. Support http protocol in reading list and section description fields

    At the moment URLs in the description fields of reading lists and sections are handled as plain text whereas URLs in public notes are automatically recognized as links and behave as such.
    We'd like to see this functionality for all text fields in the Leganto UI. URLs should always be clickable links.

    15 votes
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  14. 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 votes
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  15. 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…

    47 votes
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  16. 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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  17. Instructor role - view reading list status from Leganto

    With the instructor role, the reading list status is not displayed when working on the list from Leganto.
    We find it very necessary for the instructor to know at all times what state the reading list is in so that when the process is finished, he can publish the list. We ask that this privilege be included in the instructor role.

    25 votes
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. Filter / Remove 'notes' from material type filter

    Notes are not a type of citations and shouldn't be grouped with books, journals, articles, websites, etc.
    They could easily be moved to filter-group that contains due dates and likes.

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