Ex Libris Documentation

Harvard Alma working groups have summarized key updates below. See the Ex Libris monthly notes for complete details:

General

An incorrect check was done for PO lines that had material type but were without inventory, when updating by API. This was fixed.

To clarify when fields in the Physical Items subject area include migrated data and when they do not, the following changes were implemented:

The following fields in the Physical Item Details dimension were renamed to clarify that the field values include pre-migration data:

Original Name	New Name
Num of Loans (In House + Not In House)	Num of Loans Including Pre-Migration (In House + Not In House)
Num of Loans (In House)	Num of Loans Including Pre-Migration (In House)
Num of Loans (Not In House)	Num of Loans Including Pre-Migration (Not In House)
Times Loaned	Times Loaned Including Pre-Migration

The recently added Loan Measures dimension was renamed to Loan Measures Post-Migration to indicate that it contains only post-migration loan data. This dimension includes fields that display the total number of loans post-migration, in addition to the number of loans per item made in the past one, two, three, four, five, or more than five years, categorized by in-house, not in-house, or total loans.

You may need to update your reports to better reflect the loan activity in your library.

The following fields relating to Dublin Core bibliographic records were added to the Bibliographic Details dimension for all subject areas in which it appears:
- DC Provenance – displays elements used to provide a statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource.
- DC Source – displays the element used to provide information about a related resource from which the described resource is derived.
- DC Relation – displays the element used to provide information about a related resource to the described resource.
- DC Coverage – displays the element used to provide information about the spatial or temporal topic of the resource, spatial applicability of the resource, or jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
- DC Type – displays the element used to provide information about the nature or genre of the resource.
The new COUNTER Report SUSHI Harvesting Analysis With Prompt By Load File Upload Year out-of-the-box analytics report is now available under Shared Folders > Alma > Usage via COUNTER reports - Release 5 > Reports. It is also located on the Usage via COUNTER Reports dashboard as the COUNTER Report SUSHI Harvesting tab. This report displays SUSHI Harvesting according to load file upload year.

The values of the Available for Group, Available for Group Members, and Available for Resource Type fields under E-Inventory > Portfolio and E-Inventory > Portfolio Details for Consortia Members > Portfolio were not accurate. This was fixed.
Several LC classification codes were not displayed in Analytics. This was fixed.
When including the Work Order Status field in reports in the Physical Item Historical Events subject area, no data appeared in the report. This was fixed.
The Source of Description Note field that exists in the Bibliographic Details dimension in all subject areas was missing from Titles > Bibliographic Details. It was added.
The link to an analytics object in the letter received by subscribers does not display the report if the report name contained diacritics. This was fixed.
The 103 and 110 event types erroneously appeared in analytics reports. These event types were removed from analytics.
In the Analytics Object List, if you sorted the list and exported it to Excel, the sort was not maintained in the Excel. This was fixed.
A report loaded slowly when the time frame of the inquiry was long. This was fixed by changing the filter on the report.
If the Analytics Object List contained more than 100 objects, an error message was displayed when exporting. This was fixed.

Informational: Users can now review an item's details, including links and physical availability without adding the item to a list. Users can select More details on an item to access the item information.
- After selecting More details the Links & availability tab and Item details tab are displayed.
- When using Cite It!, the label reads Check availability. Selecting Check availability opens more details and the Links & availability tab and Item details tab is displayed.
Informational: The item More options was renamed More links and is now underlined to better differentiate the button from other availability options. When selecting More links, the Links & availability tab is opened in the item Full details view.
Informational: Analytics
- The following fields were added to Leganto Student Usage > Student Usage:
  - Number of File Views – the total number of times users viewed the file in the Leganto PDF viewer
  - Students that Viewed Files – the number of unique students that viewed files in the Leganto PDF viewer