<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Richard, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">All I can say is Good Luck! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">We moved from III's Sierra to Alma, with our go-live date more than 2 years ago, and I cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel on the clean up that we still need to do. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Are you part of a larger consortium? We are, and that complicated things. At least for us, we ended up using the OCLC master record. In doing so, we lost most of our locally-enhanced/value added notes, descriptions, subject headings, and etc. ... anything that we added locally (that we could not identify and mark as local) was lost. That represents a huge amount of time and effort over the decades of cataloging at our library. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bound-withs are a nightmare in Alma ... so just brace yourself for that car wreck! They are possible ... but they behave very differently in Alma than they did in Sierra. They require many steps to set them up ... and it is very clunky. We are still fixing those. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have also been sorely disappointed in Alma's authority control. They talked a good game when they sold it to us, and it sounded amazing ... and that was the main reason that gave Alma major points for me (compared to their competitors) ... but the authority control does not work like they claimed it would. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Julie Moore</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Fresno State</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:28 AM Matthew Bright <<a href="mailto:me@matthewbright.net">me@matthewbright.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In a consortial environment with multiple libraries sharing a "Network Zone" bibliographic record there are some complications for rare materials. The shared record can be merged or overlaid by any institution (and some consortia automatically update these when the OCLC record is updated). Any copy-specific fields that are added as "local fields" (or "local extensions" as Alma calls them now for some reason) are retained when this happens, but only some MARC fields can be local fields. For example, 590 is allowed to be a local field, but 655 is not (a 69X would have to be used) and 700 is not (a 9XX would have to be used). Alma doesn't care about $5 designations, it just ignores this data.<div><br></div><div>Also potentially problematic is that Primo VE cannot display local fields of other institutions (though Primo non-VE can). This means that any copy-specific notes and headings added as local fields (which protects the metadata from accidental edit or deletion by other institutions) are not visible to users at those other institutions. Copy-specific holdings notes can be displayed in Primo VE for all institutions--I believe they are, or can be configured to be, keyword searchable--but this would not accommodate name and genre headings, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>We have decided to allow copy-specific information to be included in non-local fields in shared bibliographic records in order to make this information visible and searchable to all, but it limits the flexibility of record updates and overlays that are allowed.</div><div><br></div>Matthew Bright<br>Metadata Coordinator<br>American University Library</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:11 AM Jones, Angela <<a href="mailto:arjones@mail.smu.edu" target="_blank">arjones@mail.smu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, bound-withs work very differently in Alma than in Voyager. I find the Alma workflow to catalog bound-withs to be more cumbersome, although the record displays and discoverability in both Alma and in Primo seems to work fine.
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had to share new records. We all had been accustomed to using 590 fields in our specific records for local notes, but in a shared record environment that can get sort of messy. We have looked at using other MARC fields in the holdings record to put in copy
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I said, that is my two cents. Others may have different perspectives.
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2019 9:54 AM<br>
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Advice off the top of your head would be fine, and could be privately communicated if you think that advisable. We are currently a III Sierra user. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Julie Renee Moore<br>Special Collections Catalog Librarian<br>Fresno State<br><a href="mailto:julie.renee.moore@gmail.com" target="_blank">julie.renee.moore@gmail.com</a><br>559-278-5813<br><font size="2"><br></font><h1 style="margin:0px"><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”</span></font></h1><font size="2">... James Matthew Barrie</font><br><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Imprint MT Shadow";color:red"></span></div></div></div></div>