The old Metadata Editor will continue to be available to Harvard until performance issues with the new MDE are fixed.
Sorting holdings by “physically at” location
- When your "physically at" Alma setting is a circulation desk, holdings for your library will display first in lists of holdings. It will also show first in the library facet for Physical Items searches.
See the Accessibility Improvements section of the release notes for details on accessibility enhancements to facets, date picker, records list, and tables.

Alma-D

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).

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Item Policy field (Physical Items > Physical Item Details) displayed a value of UNKNOWN instead of the correct value. This was fixed.
An analytics scheduled report email contains no data. This was fixed.
Fields from the Physical Items dimension were visible in the Purchase subject area when using a search. This was fixed.
The possible values for E-Inventory > Column Vendor Interface > Available was 0 and 1. This was changed to ‘Yes‘ and ‘No‘.
When a bibliographic record is deleted, the value of the Rep Lifecycle field was still Active. This was fixed.
Renewals in the Borrowing Requests SA were being counted incorrectly. This was fixed.
Adding the Bibliographic Details > Place of publication - Country field to a report produces incorrect results. This was fixed.
The value of the Author field was truncated to 250 characters. This was fixed.
The Full Inventory Indexing Job changed the value of the Holdings Record Creation Date field (Physical Items > Holding Details) to be incorrect. This was fixed.
The values in the Users > Address field consist only of preferred address values and not all address values. This was fixed.
Use of Receiving Operator in Physical Items in analytics displays no results. This was fixed.

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Improvements were made to the Accessibility menu in the user settings.
Previously, when an operator with the role Course Reserves Manager with a library Scope opened the Reading Lists Task list, the Assigned to others tab was missing. This was fixed.

CDI changes
- The "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" checkbox on the CDI tab is now disabled for inactive electronic collections.
- A searchable "Hybrid" value will be added where appropriate to CDI-related descriptive fields.
Ability to limit user permissions for electronic inventory by library - Although this feature is disabled, we now have the option to limit the ability to edit, delete, and activate/deactivate electronic collections and portfolios by library.
- If enabled, no portfolio can be owned by a library different than the one defined at the electronic collection level. In addition, libraries defined at the portfolio level will be automatically removed, except where no library is defined at the electronic collection level.

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