Citation creation date and operator should always reflect the most recent action - even when copying citations
Currently there is a significant problem with how Citation Creation Date works in Alma/Leganto.
The citation creation date and operator details should always reflect the most recent action - even when copying citations.
Currently the date is not updated from the original creation, even if a list has been copied by way of list rollover, and then copied, so the date will not reflect the reality of when and who actually did it - this prevents accurate counting of citation creation due to copying, and thus accurate measurement of total citation creation activity, and impedes regular reporting based on creation date, preventing such creation-date based reporting from being accurate.
It has a direct negative impact on reporting and timely management of citations created by instructors and library staff whereby the citation creation date does not reflect the most recent action when citations are copied from a previously existing list (which regularly occurs).
This manifests in analytics in Course Reserves in particular, but also is an explicit omission from Instructor Usage Events as copying is not an event type.
A typical, but confusing example is where reading lists are rolled over by copying, and then an item from a rolled list is itself copied. In this situation the operator and timestamp reflect the rollover, rather than the secondary copying of the item.
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Patricia Farnan commented
Good idea for sure.
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Peta Hopkins commented
Sounds sensible. I wasn't aware of this and may have to revise some reports.