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Inter-library loan of titles across consortial institutions
Would like to ‘share’ copies of ebooks with other institutions via inter-library loan. Of course, we don’t want to give our last copy, but it seems like we should be able to share our licenses because we are not creating additional copies. Ideally, this would work the same way returnables work. It’s also important that this not only work with Alma libraries, but libraries with a variety of ILSes.
6 votesWe are currently reviewing this idea and appreciate the users who are voting and commenting. Please check back here for updates and thanks for keeping our Idea Exchange active! Best, Rayna Stowe
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Title Report delivery
Libcentral's Title Report can only be delivered by email, even if it's a tiny report with ten or a dozen lines. It would be nice if a download option were provided, as with the Usage Report.
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Add country data to the Usage Report export
As an international membership organisation it is important for us to record which titles are being accessed from where. Adding a country column to the Usage Report would do this - if that's possible?
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Add document type 'Textbook' to available search refinements, and within usage reports.
It would be great to be able to quickly refine the owned content list to textbooks only, and from there extract a spreadsheet of your textbook model titles with relevant information. It would also be great to report on textbook model usage separately and quickly.
7 votesThank you for submitting this great idea to our exchange! We are reviewing this and keep voting and adding comments and questions on this enhancement, as we continue our evaluation. Much appreciation, Rayna Stowe
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Show Price to Patron
Currently if "show price to patron" option is activate, the users can see prices for all access models. I want to request only the price of SUPO can be shown.
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Users do not need to put names and email addresses again in request form
Users login their accounts to request a book so names and email addressed should be automatically put in the form to save their time.
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Message field of request form should not be an optional
Currently the message field on a request form for mediated-DDA is optional but many administrators want users to put comments. So I request administrators can select it's optional or mandatory.
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More refine options - Doody's, OAT and RCL titles
I'd like to request to add more refine options such as Doody's Core Titles, Outstanding Academic Titles and Resources for College Libraries titles.
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Ebook Central Turnaway alert at book level
Allow Turnaway alerts to be disabled in the Full Record View for individual titles (e.g., in Edit Book Level Permissions area). If a title is no longer available for sale on the platform and the library has made other arrangements to provide access, the Turnaway alerts are no longer used.
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Ability to vary settings on DDA Profiles (e.g. STL on some profiles, straight to purchase on others) aka "Differentiated DDA"
The option to have different settings for different profiles e.g. by purchase type, by subject etc.
The ability to select lists of titles to be Autopurchased automatically when enabled for DDA.
aka ("Differentiated DDA")
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Upgrade to preferred access model via Cart in LibCentral
We require the ability to upgrade to the preferred access model via Cart in LibCentral.
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Exclude Previously Held Titles from MARC Add Files
We want the option to exclude already owned or subscribed titles which are currently included in MARC Add Files.
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Access Member holdings first
As a member library of one or more Consortia, we want the option to give the patron access to the copy of the title that I own, when my holdings overlap with a parent consortium.
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MARC by Holding Type
We want to receive MARC records broken out by Holding Types: Owned, Subscribed (by Collection), and DDA.
7 votes
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