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General Enhancements


  • (blue star) Note that the old Metadata Editor will continue to be available for Harvard staff until performance issues with the new MDE are resolved. 


  • Accessibility and keyboarding: date picker improvements etc. Please see details in the Accessibility sections of the full Alma October 2021 Release Notes. (


  • (blue star) Sorting holdings by "Physically At" Circ Desks. When your "Physically at" Alma setting is a library Circ Desk, the holdings for your library will show first in lists of Holdings. It will also show first in the library facet when doing a Physical Items search. 

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Enhancement

  • Patron waitlist management for controlled digital lending. 
  • Copyright statements can be assigned to specific objects, to take precedence over the default statement for the Access Policy used for an object. 
  • Access to digital objects can now be set to expire after a fixed date, or relative to an attribute of the file (e.g. X months after pub year). 

Analytics & Reporting

Enhancements

Local (blue star) Local Authorities subject area is now available in Alma Analytics. Using the Local Authorities subject area you can create reports and dashboards for Local Authority records that are defined locally in the institution.

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You can use the Local Authorities subject area to answer the following types of business questions:

  • How many local authority records are created, deleted, and revised on monthly and annual basis?
  • How can I generate reports that allow counting authority records and listing the detail of these records, for example: by creator, date of creation or modification, heading type, etc.?
  • Which bibliographic headings or records are linked to an individual authority record?
  • Which authority records are not linked to any bib headings searchable authority RDA elements, for example, records that contain keyword from MARC tags 37X, 667, 670 and some local fields?


DARA subject area is now available in Alma Analytics. Using this subject area, you can create reports and dashboards concerning the use of the DARA recommendations received by your institution and can answer the following types of business questions:

  • How many recommendations were used?
  • How many recommendations were dismissed?
  • What were the recommendations?
  • What was the dismissal reason for the recommendation?
  • Who made the changes to the recommendation?
  • When was the recommendation created and when was it changed?

For more information, see DARA.

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Fulfillment

Enhancements

  • Nothing of notenotable to highlight this month.

Resource Management

Enhancements

  • MDE  - when viewing the properties of a rule, the dialog box that opens is now larger and more user friendly. 


Resolved

  • Prediction patterns in the holdings record fields 866 and 863 were missing subfield ‘i‘ when ‘next predicted items information‘ had Enumeration A. This was fixed.
  • MARC21 OTB template of Books/Computer Files/Maps/Music, field 008 positions 7-11 had the year 2013. This was modified to the current year 2021.
  • MDE
    • In long fields, the cursor location was not where text was added or deleted. This was fixed.
    • When the user was using the Holding form editor, the spinning wheel appeared and disappeared many times. This was fixed.
    • Templates were not sorted alphabetically after adding them to the display configuration. This was fixed.
    • The LDR of Holdings template for Continuing Resources had defects in it. This made the LDR tag incorrect. The was fixed.