<div dir="ltr">I'm pretty sure this has been submitted through the enhancement process (the only way to get new features, unless you are a new customer with $$$ that they are trying to sign on), but it has never gotten enough votes to make it through.<div><br></div><div>Incidentally, a couple of years ago the University of Minnesota was a development partner for the discontinued MetaDoor project (the source of the lawsuit between OCLC and Clarivate) and I was very frank with the ExLibris staff about why we don't use Alma for original cataloging. They seemed receptive to listening, but they really didn't fully understand as they were not catalogers; for example, they seemed to think that "templates" were a suitable alternative to macros.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM Karen Attar <<a href="mailto:Karen.Attar@sl.nsw.gov.au">Karen.Attar@sl.nsw.gov.au</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 class="msg-1879619938928283026">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine DeZelar-Tiedman via DCRM-L<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Christine DeZelar-Tiedman <<a href="mailto:dezel002@umn.edu" target="_blank">dezel002@umn.edu</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I answered more generally on the Alma list, but in terms of special collections cataloging, I can't imagine trying to do that in Alma. In particular, searching for records with Alma's very limited external search options would be a nightmare.
The availability of macros, and the methodology for entering special characters and diacritics, is also much more robust and efficient in OCLC Connexion.<u></u><u></u></p>
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