Fulfillment - November 2017 Enhancements
Direct Transit for Remote Storage Items
A scanned remote storage item can now be sent directly to the remote storage desk for re-shelving, even if the scan-in desk is not the owning library. When the Transit Scheme field is defined as Requested Pickup, the item is sent directly to the desk that has a reshelving relation with the item's location. When Transit Scheme is set to Owning Desk, the item is delivered to the owning library, which can then transit the item the to requested reshelving desk. See Adding a Remote Storage Facility.
Control Patron Renewal
A new privilege can be used if you want to limit the existing ability of users to renew a patron record when the patron record has expired, there is no patron role, or the patron role has expired. To enable this option, contact Ex Libris Support.
In addition, the block, User does not have a patron role or the role has expired, can now be controlled in the Block Preferences. The standard block options are available for the loan block. See Editing Block Preferences.
Additional Fulfillment Enhancements
- Idea Exchange: The following classes were added to the Get It holding/items list, allowing you to customize them separately:
- holdingLibraryName
- holdingLocationName
- holdingAccessionNumber
- holdingCallNumber
- holdingAvailabilityInfo
- itemLibraryName
- itemLocationName
- itemAccessionNumber
- itemAvailabilityInfo
- itemBarcode
- itemMaterialType
- itemPolicy
- itemAltCallNumber
- itemDescription
- itemPublicNote
- itemStatus
For more information on customizing the fields, see Branding the Delivery Tabs. - You can now configure additional reading list statuses (just as you already can for citations). See Configuring Additional Reading List Statuses.
- The Course's Reading List page now includes up and down arrows so that you can reorder the way in which the lists appear within a course in Leganto. See Managing a Course's Reading Lists.
- The number of students and the name of the instructor are added to the purchase request note when one is created from a citation. The note now appears as: Required for course <course name> (<course code>), Instructor: <instructor name>, Number of participants: <number of participants>, Number of total copies: <number of total copies>. For more information about purchase requests generated from citations, see Configuring Automatic Purchasing Requests from Citations.
- On the Citations Copyright Default Status mapping table (see Configuring the Default Copyright Status of Reading List Citations), the repository_citation attribute was removed and replaced with the digital_repository, electronic_repository, and physical_repository attributes. This allows you to define the default copyright status for each type of citation.
- When creating a digitization request (patron, staff, library or ship), if there is only one available department to manage the request, it is automatically selected. See Creating a Request.
- The author and publication year were added to all of the lists in patron services (loans, returns, and requests). The columns are hidden by default and can be added by changing the list display configuration. In the loans and returns lists, the publication year is displayed only for items that were borrowed after the November 2017 release. See Managing Patron Services.
- On the Reading Lists Task List page, the columns Visibility and Create Date were changed to Reading List Visibility and Creation Date, respectively.
- You can now click Expand on the Edit Reading List page to have the alerts, physical, or electronic inventory information appear expanded by default for every citation. For more information on this feature, see the similar feature for search results in Viewing Inventory/Other Details.