Copy notice templates between libraries
It would be really helpful to be able to copy notice templates between libraries in a consortium environment or between branches within a library. In our consortium, libraries use a basic template with agreed upon text created at the consortium level. I have to recreate that same template multiple times for each library jurisdiction to customize, which is time-consuming and fraught with potential human errors. It would also save a lot of workload when a customized a template could be shared amongst all our members - less reinventing the wheel and more opportunity to learn and benefit from super-users who create awesome templates.
Vanessa Walden
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Kathryn Brew
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I agree that this is essential for consortia. Besides creating all the templates, making regular minor updates is basically impossible because of the workload.
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Melissa Landis
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I agree with Vanessa and Carolyn. We need to be able to set up default templates with our consortium branding that will be used by many of our libraries that will choose not to create their own. Without a copy function, as LX Starter is now, we would need to manually set up 9 templates for each of these libraries.
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Carolyn Coulter
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With 138 libraries in our consortium, making multiple templates over and over for every notice type is a great deal of busy work for staff and is just unwieldy. We really need to be able to copy templates over from one library to another in order to maintain notices for some of our libraries. Some will want to do this themselves, but many of the smaller ones will want us to set it up and will never touch it again. The suggestion of setting up everyone up as the consortium (thus, only one notice template per notice type) defeats the purpose of the product entirely.