Add purchase request to «Library Services”
At our institution, the instructors have difficulties figuring out how to make a purchase request. We use Leganto questions to make it easier for them, but this works only for some of the ways you can add items in Leganto. Our users assume that the purchase request is in the same location as the digitization request, i.e. under “Library Services” in the “Item actions” tab and as prominent link when the brief view of a citation is open (see print screen), but without instructions it does not occur to them that they have to set a tag for the purchase request.
We think that it would improve the usability of the Leganto UI if purchase requests could be made at the same location and in a similar way as digitization requests. It could be implemented in such a way that after clicking on “Purchase Request” a small form would open in which the users could specify some essential information (e.g. electronic or physical copy) and could add an optional note. The information could be linked to corresponding tags (like in the Leganto questions) so that the current workflow could be continued after this.
Noémie Ammann
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Jessie Donaghey commented
Something like this would be great for resources like journal articles that we don't have the full text of. It doesn't seem to be possible to place a digitisation request for an item that we don't have holdings for. I like the idea of a request button rather than the instructor having to remember to add a specific tag.