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Library Efficiency Roadmap

2024 H1   2024 H2     2025 H1  
  • Block instructors from creating lists
  • Streamlined set creation
  • Automatic citation statuses
  • DCS integration improvements
  • Expanded notifications
  • Librarian workflows in the Leganto UI
  • Bolk integration improvements
  • Enhanced user experience for Alma course reserves

2024 H1

Block instructors from creating lists 

What’s New Highlights Impact

Flexibility to control whether instructors can create new lists in the Leganto UI

Configuration option to block instructors from creating their own lists 

Give libraries more control over how reading lists are created, and ensure library staff does not need to spend extra time cleaning up duplicate lists created by mistake 

Streamlined set creation

What’s New Highlights Impact

An easier process for making sets of course-related records in Alma

Save a set of courses, reading lists, and items  directly from the Alma search results

 

Make it easier for libraries to leverage the bulk jobs for courses, reading lists, and items

Automatic citation statuses

What’s New Highlights Impact

Additional options to automatically set citation statuses under certain conditions

Automatic status for citations based on digitization requests

Automatic status for citations with a copyright request

Give libraries more options to automate their processing workflows, and to identify citations requiring library review

DCS integration improvements  

What’s New Highlights Impact

Improvements to workflows between Leganto and the UK CLA Digital Content Store

Change the course code when there are DCS items

Associate a citation to multiple requests in the DCS  

Give libraries more control over managing citations and reading lists which have approved copyrights, making the DCS integration more valuable

2024 H2 

Expanded notifications 

What’s New Highlights Impact

Provide more extensive notifications on reading list activity

Provide more details about reading list activity in the letter sent to instructors, such as the text of notes, the tags added, and more

Notification for lists marked as complete

Email notifications to library staff about changes to reading lists 

Combine list and item discussion into a single notification area in Leganto

Make it easier for library staff and instructors to understand the changes that have happened to reading lists and respond quickly when needed

Librarian workflows in the Leganto UI 

What’s New Highlights Impact

Features to support more advanced list editing and processing in the Leganto UI

One-click metadata editing

Set citation status in bulk in Leganto

View broken link alerts in Leganto

Give library staff the flexibility to work in the Leganto interface for some list processing workflows, saving staff from having to switch between Leganto and Alma

Bolk integration improvements

What’s New Highlights Impact

Improvements to workflows between Leganto and the Bolk service used in Norway

Enhancements will be determined in partnership with customers

Give library staff and instructors more flexibility when managing copyrighted files with Bolk

 

2025 H1

Enhanced user experience for Alma course reserves  

What’s New Highlights Impact

The course reserves task lists will be updated to use the Alma New Layout. They will be redesigned for better usability, performance, productivity, and overall user experience

More options for editing and processing citations from within the Alma screens

The project will begin in early 2025 

Provide library staff with easier workflows for managing course materials in Alma

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