We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Soprano users can now change their password when it has expired
• Fix to the display of Operator IDs in the Till roll

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Customer Success (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Soprano is now available for preview. This release includes:

• Soprano users can now change their password when it has expired
• Fix to the display of Operator IDs in the Till roll

Soprano users can now change their password when it has expired

Now, if an operator is enabled to change their password, when they enter their existing expired credentials the system will prompt them to change their password. This feature requires LDS 2.9.39.

After entering their existing Operator ID and expired Password, the operator is prompted to re-enter their old password followed by the new one twice.

Once they have entered the details then the system confirms the password has been changed and invites them to log in using the new password.

All the usual conditions apply, e.g. if password quality rules have been configured (length of password, mixture of upper and lower case characters), the new password must conform to these rules.

Fix to the display of Operator IDs in the Till roll

Towards the bottom of each receipt the system shows the label Op ID with two IDs in. Now when the Till roll is viewed online it will show the value held in the database for both of these details. This fix requires LDS 2.9.39.

To preview this release

You can preview this release by inserting ‘-demo’ into your tenancy URL after the word ‘soprano’: soprano-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. Please remember that it accesses your live data.

Release to the live service

This version of Soprano is expected to be released to the live service on: Wednesday 16th April 2025.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Customer Success (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

Following on from the previous announcement, this morning we made the changes to the system necessary for the switch from BDS to Nielsen BookData.

If you have any problems with the changes mentioned in the last blog post, (accessible here) do get in touch with the Support team.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Customer Success (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com)

Nielsen to become the main supplier of Bibliographic records

As previously confirmed, from Tuesday 1 April 2025 it will no longer be possible to receive BDS MARC Records from Base. Nielsen BookData (Nielsen BD) has been reestablished as the major supplier of bibliographic metadata to Base. Customers who have experience of receiving Nielsen BookData via Base in the past can rest assured that trade data will not be included thereby conserving a library-appropriate and high quality source of data that all Library Management Cloud (LMC) customers expect.

In readiness for 1 April some simple updates to your system parameters will be required.

For Customers who subscribe to AMS:

No further action is required by you. If you are an Assist Managed Service subscriber, ESS will do this on your behalf.

Your assigned AMS Analyst will proactively create a Case prior to 21 March 2025 to record and track progress of the changes they will be making to your system on your behalf.

For Customers who manage their own system parameters:

We recommend that you follow the instructions in this document as soon as possible and no later than 28 March 2025 to ensure that the Nielsen BD database is accessible to you and active for Base searches from day 1.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Customer Success (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

New search option with additional fields to enable more detailed searching for titles

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Ad hoc notifications for Inter Library Loan requests
• Updating long overdue items back to In Stock/Loanable status in Return
• Fix to the display of a borrower’s age, related to leap years
• Fix to correctly handle the 040 tag following an import or edit of a marc record (LDS)

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that to further enhance the security of the Soprano web application, we have made the following changes to the LIVE environment:

• TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have been deprecated.
• TLS 1.2 continues to be supported and is now the only protocol actively used for secure communications.

Please note that while TLS 1.2 was previously supported, we have now formally disabled older protocols in LIVE, to ensure a higher level of security. Your access to Soprano through web browsers remains unchanged, and no action is required on your part.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce there is a new version of the Soprano wrapper available. This new version has been updated with the latest security features for Chromium.

The Soprano wrapper release notice and download can be found here.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Ability to re-link an item record to another bib record

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).

We’re pleased to announce that the release of Soprano previously in preview has been released to live service this morning. This release includes:

• Copies in transit excluded from branches count in Recent activity and search result cards
• Defaults on the create borrower screen

The details are described in this release notice.

If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog, or contact our Support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please contact Heather Brown (csm@librarymanagementcloud.com).