Improve management of previously affiliated researchers
When a researcher leaves your institution, the only way to presently change their status from "Affiliated" to "Previously Affiliated" is to purge their user record from Alma.
However, there may be reasons for an institution to retain the user's record even though they are no longer an affiliated researcher. For example, the user may be an alumnus or emeritus who retains certain library privileges or has fines associated with their account.
As a result, institutions need a way to transition researchers to "Previously Affiliated" that doesn't require purging their user record.
One possibility would be to add a toggle to the researcher record that could be modified via the Update Set of Researchers job. Another would be to automatically flip researchers with no current internal affiliations (based on affiliation start and end dates) to "Previously Affiliated."
Can use the job "update set of researchers" to make affiliated researchers into non-affiliated researchers without any impact on the user record.
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AdminAnonymous (Admin, Ex Libris) commented
Thank you for your idea. It has been accepted and the functionality is planned for Q1 2023.
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Sara Scheib commented
A solution to this problem would be much appreciated. Any solution should also remove the researcher from the "Our Researchers" facet in the portal results display.