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Colour-coding on tags (especially Importance tags)
I think this is an idea floated before, but it's come up again as feedback and I would like Ideas Exchange to revisit :)
Tags are not very visually different from the general colourscheme on Leganto; this makes them harder to pick out from the rest of the citation. Additionally, we use student tags for Importance (Essential/Recommended/Further) as part of our commitment to flexible and inclusive teaching. It would be really useful if we could pick colours for these tags a) to help students spot them more easily on the citations, and b) so we could colour-code for importance levels,…
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Improve "Leganto identify deleted eresources" job in Alma by displaying provider information from where the resource has been deleted, pres
Whilst it is great to have the new "Leganto identify deleted eresources" job as a tool to highlight such deletes, the report should detail provider information from where the resource has been deleted and if the citation possesses any other inventory. At the moment, this report details:
- citation tile
- portfolio ID (which is no longer relevant as it will have been deleted once the report is generated)
- course code
- reading list ID
- reading list name
- citation IDThis means that there is a need to investigate each line in the report to see if:…
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Assign citation tasks to others
Tasks in the reading list tasklist have a "Reassign" option, but this isn't available for tasks in the citation tasklist.
Some of our tasklists are for specific functionalities, but others might be either a copyright request or a short loan request - these are dealt with by different teams. Our copyright person needs to be able to work through the list and assign a task to herself if it's copyright-related, but also to assign a task to a short-loan person if it's for them. (And vice versa.) This would let her clear her own view of the list so it's…
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Reading List Bulk Update job - reset copyright status
Given that the Reading List Bulk Update job is designed to reset all fields within the reading lists, it is essential to incorporate an option to reset the copyright status as well.
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Improve Leganto question and answers with a guidance note field at the bottom
We make significant use of the Leganto Item Request Question and Answer functionality, but one of the problems encountered is that there is no 'bottom' guidance note label, only a question description field at the top, i.e.
Currently you can only define:
-Question,
-a question description,
[answer options]This means there is no scope for a final note/guidance label which can be used to guide instructors in how to fill out the options and describe the next steps by the library.
Without this, all and any such consequential information has to be crammed into the 'top' question/Question description customer labels.…
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Don't include deleted citations in analytics reports
I regularly work from quite long Leganto analytics reports to tidy up data and correct any errors in citation records. One thing that is very frustrating and wastes quite a lot of time is that citations which I can only presume have been deleted appear in such reports. I'm not sure why they should appear if they have been deleted (or the list they appear on has been deleted) but it would be great if the analytics reports could be tweaked so that such citation IDs no longer appear. Either that or at least have an option to exclude them.
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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.
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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
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Reset Copyright status when a file is uploaded.
When a citation is for a physical book from our collection – the copyright status is defaulted to “not required” However, if the instructor later decides to upload a file – the copyright status does not change/recalculate - it should! It could potentially violate Fair Dealing/copyright permissions.
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Make Primo's related records indicator available for Leganto
When setting the "primo availability for citations added from primo" parameter to false, related records are displayed for citations in Leganto.
In theory this is great - for books and their ebook version as those are more or less the same thing.
Where it gets problematic are cases where a textbook and its corresponding exercise book are related. Leganto just mixes the inventory without giving any indication that not all holdings are for the actual title (screenshot).
Primo has a good solution for this - they added a header after the 'real' inventory and listed the related inventory below that.…
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Enable default Course Year to be configured in Alma similar to Start and End date default
In Alma configuration you can set a default course start and end date that is allocated when a new course is created.
Course Year does not have a configurable default and so must be entered every time.
It would be really helpful if there was a configurable default Course Year.7 votes -
Enable class discussion for assignments
Currently it looks like instructors can choose to enable class discussion on a citation OR set up a read and respond assignment. Sometimes they want to combine the functionalities: set up a reading for the class to discuss together, and the instructor then grades students based on their participation.
Read and Respond assignments should have the option for instrutors to either set up student responses to be private between student and instructors (the default) or to be an open class discussion but with grading still available.
Libraries should be able to disable the open class discussion option on an institutional…
7 votes -
Expanding Parent Lists – changes reflected on children lists
The new functionality of Parent lists (12/22) allowing folks to easily identify, and copy parent lists is appreciated. However, we feel that the functionality needs to be made further functional by allowing updates to the parent list to be reflected on the active copied or children lists. As it currently stands it’s exceedingly time-consuming to manage changes and broken links as it requires staff to make updates in multiple locations.
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The ability to suppress the Leganto - Import list functionality.
Dear colleagues
University of New South Wales Library is requesting the ability to suppress the ability for an instructor to select the Create list > Import list option in both the classic and new UI environments at certain times of the year.UNSW has found that our instructors after using the Import functionality are reporting issues with citation linking. Requiring Library staff to assist by rolling over lists to provide a working link resolving these issues/frustrations.
We note that other libraries have also discussed this functionality in the community communications. So, we encourage you to consider and support this option.
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Hide holdings in bulk
Instructors have the option to hide physical or electronic holdings from students in a citation when the instructormanagecitationavailablelink parameter is set to true. However there is no way to do this in bulk and it makes it difficult where we have a number of reading lists with multiple citations where there's a physical and electronic holding and we want to hide one of these. It would be very helpful for this to be an option.
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'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.
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Make new edition suggestions actionable for instructors from the detailed notification letter
There is a workflow issue for instructors starting from the detailed leganto notifications letter.
Scenario:
1. Librarian suggests a new edition for a citation in Alma
2. Instructor receives the detailed notification letter with a link to the citation view for the existing citation that now has a suggestion
3. Instructor looks around and there is nowhere to do anything about the suggestion, although they might spot the new edition tag - it does nothing when they click on it
4. Instructor has to know that they must click on the section or list links at the top of page…7 votes -
Merge reading lists in Leganto
Being able to easily merge content from different list to one list - without Section text/info and notes. E.g. relevant if you want to get a complete picture of all of the literature being used a one semester/programme
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Improving the in-list searching in Leganto
When searching for a specific citation in Leganto, there are instances where no results are returned. We recently noticed this happening if the search is mis-spelled, shortened or if a special character is used. This happens even if the special character is in the title of the item.
It appears to be a very specific search, almost working like a Ctrl+F function rather than being flexible. We use the in-list search function a lot, so it would be great if this could be more flexible to allow for these types of instances.6 votes -
Restrict Tags to specific Material Types
It would be really great if tags could be restricted to specific material types.
We are using tags that are e.g. only applicable for books and e-books but not websites etc. but still show up for those types, too.6 votes
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