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  1. Allow courses to be marked as not requiring a reading list - in bulk

    The NERS 2022 enhancement #7744 delivered in Jan 2023 allowed individual courses in Alma to be marked as not requiring a reading list. However it did not allow for any bulk method of marking courses as not requiring reading lists.

    It would be a distinct advantage for good and accurate administration of course details to allow for bulk methods of marking courses appearing in Alma as not requiring reading lists.

    This could be achieved in multiple ways for example via bulk options from the Courses search, or via the Course Bulk Update, but the need is to be able to…

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  2. Section details visible and editable in Alma, also for citation-free reading lists

    Librarians should be able to view and edit section details in Alma, the same way they can in Leganto.

    Sometimes instructors fill the section's description field with a citation or the list itself, which librarians working exclusively in Alma won't notice. Worse, if the list doesn't have any actual citation (even though the instructor might think they have added them), the section description field won't show and potential mistakes won't necessarily be discovered and fixed.

    In other words, we would like both the section title and section description fields to be visible and editable in Alma when these fields are…

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  3. When creating a new list, provide sort options for numbered templates

    Some instructors want to create lists that show the most recent content first, so that their students can easily access the current week’s resources. For example, in a 12-week semester, they divide the list into sections by week and list them in reverse order (i.e. Week 12, Week 11, Week 10, etc.). They release each section at the start of the corresponding week, so that students can focus on the relevant content.

    However, currently there is no easy way to create such a list using a numbered template. The default order for the numbered template is ascending (i.e. Week 1,…

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  4. In Analytics (Leganto Student Usage subject area), possibility to query Statistical Category X fields under Student Details

    (initially filled by the « Statistical Category X » fields from the Users subject area).

    Right now, to get data about the usage of a reading list by students, we need to query the fields which are only available under the dimension « Student details » of the « Leganto student usage » subject area. Those fields are filled only after signing the Ex-Libris form « Leganto student success measurements service ».
    It would be interesting that the statistical category fields only could be filled in order to extract statistical analyses without having to know the students identity. Therefore it…

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  5. Duplicate and Connect Courses Information Icon

    We have found the options to duplicate vs connect courses causes a lot of confusion for our faculty. It would be helpful if we could add an information icon on each of those options in the search for reading lists that would display more information about when to select Duplicate vs Connect.

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  6. Include more information in the course tab on the user profile in Alma

    At the moment the course tab on the user profile only contains columns for Course code and Section. There is no option to add more information about the user course enrollment.

    It would be usefull to have access to more informations about the course enrollement in the user tab: Course name, term, year etc.

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  7. Allow Instructors to make students collaborators on specific reading lists

    From feedback we received from Instructors, they would like the ability to add students as collaborators on specific reading lists. This would enable course students to collaborate on the compilation of materials and sharing of comments on them as part of learning and research activities.
    To date it seems the ability to add students as collaborators is limited to Alma-side changes - see the idea which was added to production in May 2018 in https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/395697-leganto/suggestions/33076474-adding-a-collaborator-needs-to-assign-instructor-r

    We can see there may be data privacy concerns from some 'free searching' of users without a role, but wondered whether either the LTI aspect…

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  8. Add a campus facet in list overview

    We would like "Campus" to be a facet in the Reading list overview in Alma.

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  9. Enable OCRed PDF documents search in all languages

    when using OCRed PDF document in non English language i.e Hebrew, word search for active learning doesn't work.
    enabling the search will help instructors and students to achieve better learning.

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  10. Clearer display of link source

    We had a citation with two links, both broken. One showed the name of the collection it was in so easy to fix. The other one just showed "online.wiley.com" and I spent at least an hour trying to figure out what collection that was only to discover by accident that actually it was referring to the "Source URL" in the citation's own record.

    The display of links in Leganto should clearly tell administrators where the URLs are coming from to facilitate troubleshooting.

    Broken link alerts in the Alma tasklist should likewise clearly name (or ideally link to!) the collection or…

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  11. Managing data on rightsholders

    If customers could maintain records of the rightsholders that they interact with (publishers, etc), then they could use the same kinds of Leganto-based processes for managing copyright permissions for those vendors that they do now when interacting with CCC. This would prevent many customers from needing to maintain an external database for copyright clearance activity that doesn't relate to the CCC.

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  12. Push citation due dates to student To Do list

    In the LMS, students use the To Do list to keep track of course deadlines. Instructors would like the due dates entered in their reading lists to be included there, but currently citations have to be added to an assignment to make that happen. An assignment is not always needed or wanted, so functionality would be improved for the instructor if due dates for citations were automatically pushed to the To Do list in the LMS. Students would benefit from having all due dates in the same place.

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  13. Ability to configure order of course terms

    When applying multiple course terms to a course, we would like to arrange them in a logical order that makes sense to Instructors ie the main teaching period first, followed by other teaching periods. However, currently course terms automatically order alphabetically by the description. Could we have the ability to configure the order in which we would like our course terms to display? Thanks.

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  14. Automatic hold request when adding physical item

    We need requests to be placed on items that have been added to a reading list in Leganto. Otherwise students see that the item is available in the stacks and may go pick it up before our staff can OR be confused at the location since course reserves are always behind our front desk.

    There's also no alert in Alma stating that the item has been added to a reading list and to double check.

    In our current workflow, we do not employ the manually-set "move request" on items we pull from the stacks because it's extra clicks. This should…

    4 votes
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  15. Set Task List "Unassigned - List with new Note to zero

    We are starting to manage our 'Unassigned - List with new note' task which had not previously been dealt with in our workflow. The notes all say "Comment: List was published List status: Ready For Processing" even though the lists are completed. The list is quite large even though the lists have been completed.

    Apparently there is no way to automatically clear this task and set it to zero. The Ex Libris support team agree that this would be a useful enhancement and suggest this enhancement suggestion.

    I guess there may be other tasks that could be managed in this…

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  16. Option to exclude facets when searching the library

    When adding a reference from the library search, you can filter based on "Type" and "Available here" facets in Leganto. This is great, but it would also be helpful if you could exclude facets as well, like you can in Primo. For instance, if you don't want Open Access records you should be able to exclude them. The "Type" facets are usually mutually exclusive (so isn't as relevant to exclude), but this is not true for the "Available here" facets. References can for instance be both "Open access" and "Peer reviewed" at the same time.

    Our specific use case is…

    4 votes
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  17. Zotero/Mendeley import: display position in list

    In the results list of “Search the library”, the current position in the list is indicated, e.g. “Showing 20 out of 311,444 results”. In the results list of “Import references from Mendeley” and “Import references from Zotero, however, this information is not displayed. We would appreciate if the position would be indicated in these lists, too. Relevant Support Case: 07013368

    4 votes
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  18. Embed outside tools in Leganto

    Support embedding iframes in some areas of the Leganto UI so that additional relevant functionality from outside tools can be surfaced to end users.
    For example the Cite them right embeddable search bar https://search.citethemrightonline.com/

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  19. 'Associated with Reading List' column when viewing Course list in Alma

    At the moment when viewing list of courses on Alma, the only way to find out if a course has a Reading List is to use the 'Associated Lists - Exist/None' facet, or by clicking the menu button of the course and then select 'Reading List'.

    It would be much more useful if there was a column that says if the course has an associated Reading List or not. Or even better - have a column to display the number of Reading Lists associated with the course.

    4 votes
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  20. Last Leganto activity date on the user profile

    That the user profile contains a last leganto activity date along side the last patron activity date. It is not given that users of leganto use the library in a way that would generate a patron activity.
    With leganto the user profile has become important to elements not necessarily connected to library activities but the overall student activities. And especially in purging of users it is important to be able to see if leganto activity is present.

    4 votes
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