Starting with this release, Ex Libris introduces the ability to associate a reading list with multiple courses. This is useful for courses taught in different locations, and/or by different instructors and/or in different times, but that all share the same reading list.

In this release, only part of the full features are implemented. Currently, you can associate a reading list with multiple courses and you can see the combined total number of participants. The following features are not yet implemented: updating the list due back date, selecting the relevant course for a permalink, publishing the correct link to the reading list in Primo, searching for lists by course code, displaying the correct course code in the citation pages, copyright processing, request processing, digitization processing, job reports, purchasing, course rollover, notifications, pay-per-use, all Analytics, and all APIs.

For more information, see Managing Multiple Courses for Reading Lists. See also Reading Lists Associated with Multiple Courses, above.

• To enable this feature, set multicourse_lists in the Leganto Customer Setting table (Configuration Menu > Fulfillment > Leganto > Customer Settings) to enabled.
• When this feature is enabled and auto_set_instructors_as_owners is true, all instructors from all courses are added as collaborators to the list. If an instructor is associated with at least one course that is still associated with the list, the instructor remains a collaborator, even when you remove other lists with which this instructor is associated. If you manually add an instructor as a collaborator, the instructor remains a collaborator even if you remove all courses with which the instructor is associated.
• When enabled, all associated courses appear in a reading list's Course Code and Course Name fields, in any other place in Alma that lists the course(s) associated to the list. If the list is too long to display, the full list appears in a tooltip. The total number of participants for a reading list is the total for all courses associated to the list.
• A Courses tab was added to the Edit Reading List page to enable you to add and remove courses from the list.
• Clicking Associate this list with a course on the Course's Reading List or Reading Lists Task List pages opens the Courses tab on the Edit Reading List page
• Clicking Remove associated course on these pages opens the Courses tab on the Edit Reading List page ONLY if there are multiple courses associated with the list (so that you can select which one to remove). If there is only one course associated with the list when you click this option, that course is simply disassociated with the reading list, as usual.
• On the Edit Citations page, searching for citations with an active course status will return all citations for which at least one of the courses associated to the citation is active.

To enable Reading List Advisor and Reading List Tips in Leganto, set enable_list_advisor to true. See Managing the Reading List Advisor.

• When enabled, the advisor score and tips appear to users in Leganto. In addition, the score appears as a column (initially hidden) on the Reading Lists Task List page; see Managing Reading Lists.
• You can configure what kinds of checks are performed and that contribute to the advisor's score on the Reading List Advisor Agenda Items mapping table (Configuration Menu > Fulfillment > Leganto > Reading List Advisor Agenda Items).
• A scheduled job, UPDATE_READING_LIST_SCORE, runs each night to update scores of reading lists that were modified on the previous day.
• The score appears in the Reading List Information pane on the Edit Reading List page; this is for informational purposes, only.
• <score> was added to the reading list API.
• Score will be added in a future release as a field in Analytics.

• To enable Compact List View in Leganto, set list_compact_view to true.
• To have sections appear collapsed by default when a user opens a reading list, set sections_collapsed to true. If the reading list contains only one section, it appears expanded, regardless of the value of this parameter.