by Jon Singletary on 2023-11-08T13:12:56-05:00 | 0 Comments
Alma
Resource Management
The Alma Viewer now displays Office files including those from Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
Electronic holdings for Taylor and Francis journals can now be updated automatically.
All Title and Portfolio search results will now include link resolver statistics showing how often an electronic portfolio was displayed or clicked.
Jobs that make changes to physical inventory previously were compatible with Physical Titles or Physical Items sets. These jobs can now be applied to Physical Holdings sets as well.
A new option was added to the Change Physical Items job, to allow text to be appended to a note.
Community Zone collections will show a Bibliographic Rank field to indicate the average quality of the records in that collection.
Item Retention functionality has been added to the New Order and Update Inventory import profiles. This allows the "Committed to Retain" item option to be enabled automatically.
MMS ID can now be used to create itemized sets of Physical Titles, Digital Titles or Electronic Titles, in addition to All Titles.
In the search results for physical items, a menu option was added for marking items missing.
Acquisitions
On November 9, 2023, Ebook Central will end support for COUNTER release 4 and will begin to use COUNTER release 5.
In the New Order import profile, it is possible to create a PO Line for each item within a single bibliographic record. The new "Split PO Lines by Library Location" option can be used for this purpose.
Alma has a new interface for the PO Line task list, which shows more information along with new search and facet options.
The "Update PO Lines Information" job now can make changes to the 4th and 5th reporting codes.
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