A lightweight Chrome extension for boosting productivity in the Alma online library services platform environment.
The HJ Alma Booster (Harvard Library Judaica Division Alma Booster Chrome Extension) was created—and is in the process of further development—by Tom Wagg, Harvard '20, Littauer Judaica Library Student Assistant, for the Harvard Library Judaica Division. It was built during the course of the Harvard Judaica Division's implementation of the Alma library information system software, and was subsequently shared with other Harvard Library units. This booster enables printing bibliographic records from multiple points in Alma, reduces mouse-clicking, streamlines navigation to invoice and receiving screens, and facilitates adding of Harvard local MARC fields to bibliographic and holding records for statistics and special collections processing. The Harvard Library Judaica Division welcomes collaboration with other Alma library installations to further develop this tool.
If you wish to install the current stable release of the Chrome extension on your machine you can follow this link to the Chrome Web Store and click add to Chrome. Contact Elizabeth Vernon of the Harvard Library Judaica Division at juddiv@fas.harvard.edu for the installation password.
If you wish to install a developer version of the extension then follow these steps;
- Clone or Download this repository into a local folder on your computer (green button in the top right of this page)
- Open a new tab in chrome and go to "chrome://extensions"
- Turn on developer mode with the switch in the top right
- Click load unpacked
- Input the path to the local version of this repository
- Done!
If you need more information on Chrome Extension development I recommend their guides and tutorials, the documentation is very thorough.
The Chrome Extension often works in conjunction with Macro Express to write information to records. We have created another repository to hold the relevant Macro Express macros and this can be accessed here
If you have any questions or issues please address them to Elizabeth Vernon at juddiv@fas.harvard.edu.