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All instructors to turn off replying function to their public annotations.
Many Instructors would like to use the public annotations to highlight specific sections of text, but don't wish for students to reply to their annotations, only to read them. By turning off the ability to reply, these annotations could then be rolled over without concern about rolling over student comments.
1 vote -
Allow "on-the-fly" tagging by instructors
Many instructors want to group their readings in a variety of ways - by week, but also by category specific to the needs of the particular course. It would be very useful for instructors to be able to create and apply custom tags to citations and that they can reuses as they need without requiring the need for staff intervention on the Alma configuration side.
1 vote -
allow public annotations by instructor to rollover
instructors use the "class discussion" tab to highlight and annotate certain important sections of a text, however when they reading list is rolled over to another term or course, all the annotations are lost. The instructor does not want to add them in every year.
1 vote -
Allow the Unpaywall link label to be modified (parity with primo ?)
With respect to the options of using Unpaywall integrations/collections in Leganto, we would like more control of the links which appear - specifically the label.
For some citations in Leganto the display of the services in links and availability differs from Alma - e.g.
search for article "Maher, Patrick, A review of 'traditional' Aboriginal health beliefs" add to list.
Direct linking settings and libkey integration mean the brief view shows a "View Online" and "Download PDF" service.If we hide those for clarity, and following the View online to see all [active] services in links and availability, the unusual "Online…
9 votes -
Allow individual course rollover within Alma
At the moment there are two methods for course rollover:
Bulk course rollover via the integration profile and FTP
Instructor rollover within LegantoWe have not enabled instructor rollover, as we only want library staff to perform rollover tasks. As a result, we rely solely on the bulk rollover method, which becomes laborious when we only need to process individual courses. Being able to rollover individual courses within Alma would offer the option of only allowing Library staff to rollover individual courses.
9 votes -
Preserve Scroll Position After Bulk Actions
When performing bulk actions on the citations list (e.g., selecting multiple citations and updating their status via the Citation Status menu), the page currently refreshes and automatically scrolls back to the top of the list. This forces users to manually find their previous position, which slows down workflows, especially when reviewing long lists.
Proposed Improvement:-
Implement a method to preserve the user’s scroll position after bulk actions. Possible approaches include
-Maintaining scroll position after the list refreshes.
-Updating only the modified items instead of reloading the full page.User Impact:-
-Reduces repetitive scrolling.
-Less disruptive when reviewing large reading lists10 votes -
Allow bulk ReadingList creation with the AI Syllabus Assistant
It's exciting to learn about the newly launched AI Syllabus Assistant, which can automatically generate reading lists and show items' statuses. Since there's a need for Library to generate many reading lists at once, is it possible to use this AI feature to bulk-create reading lists for multiple courses by uploading a folder containing course synopsis documents? Or API could be offered to connect data from external sources?
5 votes -
Citation thumbnail images - upload by Library staff (separate to instructor file upload)
Currently it is only possible to upload a citation thumbnail image in the Leganto interface (Librarian view) when the instructor file upload parameter is set to allow instructors to upload, i.e. maxfilesizeallowedfaculty_MB is not zero.
It would be useful for Library staff to always be able to upload/edit the citation thumbnail image, and for this to be separate from any instructor-only configuration.It would be particularly beneficial as part of enabling Library Staff to check and manage lists, in their own view in the Leganto interface.
3 votes -
Allow institutions to configure which citation statuses should be considered as equivalent to Complete
In Leganto it is possible to create custom citation statuses.
One such custom status we have created is 'Complete - no eBook available'. We use this status to indicate to teaching staff that a citation has been processed by the library but that it has not been possible to purchase it electronically. To all intents and purposes this status is equivalent to Complete, but provides additional information.
We would like to be able to configure Leganto to define which statuses should be considered as Complete. This would be useful, for example, when filtering citations in Alma, where there are options…
44 votes -
The possibility of adding and removing tags in bulk from a citation result search
In Alma> citation search:
Sometimes you have several citations that need to have added or removed the same tag. Now, you need to open every single citation or run a job.
It would be a nice workflow if there was an action to tick-off and add a tag in bulk from the search result display just like we’re able to remove alerts in bulk.13 votes -
Academic department and School/faculty a facet for Reading lists and citation search
Make School/faculty a facet on Course, Reading list and Citation search results
Make Academic department a facet on citation search resultsSince the possibility of saving queries was made available for search results for courses, reading lists and citation trimming with facets for sets and jobs are relevant for mass updates
7 votes -
Make all table columns for Courses and Reading lists search results sortable in Alma
For tables in Alma: it would be relevant if all columns are sortable by default.
4 votes -
Make it possible for students to view archived lists in leganto.
A course may have ended but students often need to refer to old lists and the literature shared in the coming semesters.
That means that students often accumulate a lot of lists during the years enrolled, making the lists-list long in leganto – and us having a lot of active lists for ended courses in Alma.
It would be great if students could access archived lists from somewhere in their list tab in leganto. If archived lists weren’t just available for instructors then we could use the archive function to keep a better focus for both instructors and students in…
19 votes -
Allow institutions to configure the maximum number of citations on a list after which sections will be collapsed by default
It would be useful if we could configure the number of citations on a reading list over which the sections will be collapsed by default. The system setting is that any list over 100 items will be collapsed as default view, and we have the setsectionview parameter set to 'Yes' to allow default view to be manually overridden on a list by list basis, but we'd like there to be something in between that kicks in automatically, so shorter lists will still be expanded (which saves staff/students having to make extra clicks to view the full list) but…
4 votes -
Ability to edit/streamline clipboard Leganto Task List
The current Leganto Task List includes items that are not tasks - they are completed. We'd like to be able to config/edit this display so that only actual tasks ie. 'processing' and 'ready for processing' are displayed.
12 votes -
Allow additional staff roles to be configurable in Courses and displayed in Leganto
I would love the option to configure a new Course Instructor role in Alma/Leganto; it could be called something like ‘Course Collaborator’ to use wording consistent with other similar roles. This could then map more accurately between different staff roles in the VLE and different reading list ownership roles. Currently there is only one overarching Course role (Instructor), but the Course is the LTI linking point between VLE page and reading list, and the Course Loader is where you update details in bulk, so there does not seem a good way of keeping 'list collaborators' up to date without doing…
3 votes -
Display the "Add Citation" button as citations are added to a Reading List in ALMA
We propose that the "Add Citation" option within a Reading List in ALMA become fixed (visible to the editor) as the editor adds citations.
Currently, in lists with many citations, the editor must return to the top of the List to continue adding citations.
It would be helpful to make the "Add Citation" option more accessible to avoid constantly scrolling back to the top.
5 votes -
Search or facet for citation library-only notes
There's the possibility to add a library note to citations in Alma, which is not visible in Leganto. Currently this field can be searched only in Analytics (Leganto Citation Library Notes, Leganto Citation Library Notes Last Update). It includes the text of all notes of type Library, and the person who added the note. We would like to use this for internal notes of the acquisitions' team, but the fact that it's hidden in Alma hinders its usability.
2 votes -
Expand Cross Ref Link resolver to include article subtitle
We have encountered cases wherein the Leganto articles do not resolve to the correct article; instead, they link to another article with the same title. After consultation with Ex Libris, this linking error was determined to occur for articles with duplicate titles because the CrossRef DOI enrichment for the linking parsers only uses the title as a match point.
Currently, addressing these errors requires Ex Libris intervention to make an exception for the citation. To prevent these errors in the future without one-off exceptions, we request an expansion of the CrossRef augmentation logic to include the subtitles.
16 votes -
Link from course info to reading lists
Today for the two thousandth time(*) I've searched in Alma for a course and absent-mindedly clicked the course code link in order to get to the reading lists, then had to go back and get to them via the ... menu instead.
Reading lists have a "Courses" tab - can the course information page please have a "Reading lists" tab? Or even just a link from the sidebar to the "Course's Reading List " page.
(*) Conservative estimate.
24 votes
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