A real time integration between the VLE system Blackboard and Alma/Leganto would be beneficial to allow course information to be updated instantaneously within Alma/Leganto, without having to wait for the next course load to run.

Although APIs are available for creating and updating courses, these require local set up and resource. It would be beneficial if standard integrations could be developed for course updates directly between the most commonly used systems e.g. Blackboard, meaning that when a change is made to a course in the VLE this is then automatically reflected in Alma and Leganto.

This would also be useful for course creation. Although it is possible to enable courses to be automatically created when they don’t exist via the LTI, this still requires a manual step to be performed (in clicking on the LTI link). It would be helpful if the creation of new courses could also be automated via a real time integration.

Although there are concerns around anonymity of list and item level discussions, instructors are interested in being able to easily get a course-level overview of the discussions on their lists, and items on their lists. Currently the Notifications can help to get instructors to individual comments, but these have no course context, having list filtering and no course details. Being able to see whole discussions from notifications and seeing the courses with which they are associated would help greatly here.

For example, if a lecturer is seeking feedback on assigned readings on a list, it would be useful to be able to see from a list or from notifications, a overview of the 'active discussions'. without having to click into every item to see. This is a quite generic idea as lots of specific aspects could be added, but useful to understand others' thoughts here.

It would be very useful to be able to have configuration in Alma that would allow citations with a specific list of defined Material Types to be set to citation status: Complete and Copyright Status: Not Required or Approved automatically when they first are created on the Reading List. This would save staff working on Reading lists where there are numerous citations which need no copyright approval or should be auto Approved and need no user intervention, to be automatically marked complete if they matched a configurable list of material types exiting in Alma already.

At the moment it takes 7 clicks for citations which do not require copyright auditing to be set to the desired copyright status and citation status. Staff need to edit the citation, click the Copyright Attributes tab, open the copyright status combo box, select Not Required or Approved, Save the Citation, Click the breadcrumb to return to the Reading List, and finally Select Citation Complete

Below are two example use cases where we see a configurable rule system could allow us to automatically process citations on a reading list without needing user intervention.

IF Material Type: Website
THEN Set Copyright Status: Not Required
AND THEN Set Citation Status: Complete

IF Material Type: E-Book
THEN Set Copyright Status: Approved
AND THEN Set Citation Status: Complete

A configuration area where institutions could create some logical rules around Material Types or even other parameters and how they would like to automate citations would be most welcome and eliminate some of the very manual process as it stands now.

Where Website is chosen as the item type then it would be useful to have a field that displays the URL, in both the short and long form of the citation in Leganto. Ideally this should be displayed in <angled brackets> in keeping with common reference citation guidelines, but it would also serve as a useful back up if the link were to stop working. This would not need to be a hyperlink and may need to be different to the one that we are using as it would need to exclude any proxy url prefixes that may be in use.

It would allow more flexibility in the Citation-level workflow if there was an easier way of working with dates in the page. Often there are far more citations slowing the page and overloading the users to make this as effective as it could be. It would be useful to be able to filter the report by a date (before/after, or between) and then use the facets to really drill down on criteria to address.

In a list in Alma, there is a "Citation Last Modification Date" which is almost doing something similar, but as it is just a specific date and not a 'since/before/between' option it is not as flexible as it really could be.

There may be other ways of 'thinning out' the default Edit Citation view (active courses only, although pre-session working may make this irritation, possibly a default value for course start/ Course year or similar would also assist, but these are probably separate ideas, just to illustrate the workflow impacts.
Would be good to discuss how these might best work.

One of our libraries uses additional conditions in Analytics based on "Date Sent For Library Review" in SA Course Reserves. This to be able to change background color depending on when the reading list was sent to the library. It helps them more easily prioritize the follow-up work on the lists.

There is no Month column/field in Reading List dimension table that can be used with Date Sent For Library Review. The only Month and Month Key fields available in Course Reserves subject area are for citations and courses (in Reading List Citation Create Date, Current Course Start Date and Current Course End Date dimension tables).

We would like you to add the fields "Date Sent For Library Review Month" and "Date Sent For Library Review Month Key" to the reading list dimension in SA Course Reserves.