Christopher Waldrop
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Thank you for the suggested idea.
After reading it carefully, I understand that the main pain point here is the removal/fix of items already received.
To be more specific, the description of already received items should be updated to reflect the new pattern.
- Is this understanding correct?
- How often such change happens?
- Can you please add examples of the existing description and the needed update?
- Can the 'Update items using Excel load' CloudApp be utilized for fixing the description? see https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/item-updater-by-excel/
Thanks for the collaboration,
Tamar Fuches
Alma product
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If Ex Libris ever does decide to review print periodical receiving (though that seems increasingly unlikely) I hope they'll consult people with experience working with serials. The system as it is now is so badly designed it's almost unusable.
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Six months under review and there's been no update. Perhaps we could make some progress if Ex Libris would accept some feedback from users.
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With this under review will users be able to offer suggestions? The number of print serials we receive has diminished greatly but the current system requires a lot more management than what we had in the past.
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This is a good idea but what's really needed is a thorough revision of the way Alma handles print serials. Print serials, especially periodicals, haven't changed since we used NOTIS, but Alma has made every part of the process unnecessarily complicated to the point that where we used to be able to train student assistants to help now it's a specialized skill. We also can't claim reliably or display print holdings as clearly as we could previously because of Alma's poor design in this area.
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Currently when a new order is created for an existing standing order, with "Assign inventory manually" checked, the user has to create the POL then exit before entering the supplier, price, fund code, and other information.
The POL then has to be linked to the holdings, which is an entirely separate process. Only when this is done can the necessary order information be entered.
Allowing the user to link to existing holdings as part of creating the order would make this a much more seamless process.Christopher Waldrop
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Patterns really need to be clearer and made simpler to be useful. We're finding so many titles don't fit the supplied patterns and the only answer we get from Ex Libris is "use a custom pattern" which isn't helpful at all. Physical serial receiving in Alma is so badly designed as to be useless.
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This would be really helpful given that the date widget is so poorly designed it's useless and the date field requires very special formatting. Currently it's inefficient and unnecessarily slow. This fix would speed up invoice entry.
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Claiming in Alma is very poorly designed. In fact all print serials management in Alma is terrible. This is an area where they really should get feedback from users who have experience with serials management rather than trying to build a system based on what the developers think is best.
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We also find prediction pattern management and receiving overly complex, time-consuming, and prone to error due to the high number of manual steps and clicks involved.
At Vanderbilt we update the volume holdings as well as receiving items because the list of received items isn't always helpful. Unfortunately these are two separate processes that require searching for each title twice.
There's also inconsistency in what displays. In the Receiving workbench the items received are sometimes different from the items in place in the Holdings. I can't tell why these don't match.