[DCRM-L] Question about local collection name in Alma

[Christine DeZelar-Tiedman]

Just to be clear, are you talking about collections that are smaller than
the "location" as defined in Alma? (i.e. 852 $$c)

For these, we use a 710 with $5 MnU. Yes, it does display as
author/creator, but our curators are less concerned with how it displays,
and more interested in it being a searchable field. We have created a local
index in our Primo instance called "Associated name" which includes all 7XX
fields with $5. It is also available as a name search, but the "associated
name" index allows for a more targeted search.

I'm not aware of the "Alma built-in function" and would be interested in
learning more. Our solutions are less than ideal, but it's the best we've
been able to figure out in our environment.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:31 PM Liu, Xiping <xliu54 at central.uh.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> We recently migrated to Alma and the display of local collection names has
> become a problem for us (it was a problem back when we were using Sierra,
> but now it is to the point that we need to figure out  a way to solve the
> problem or at least improve).
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> So we coded all of our local collection names in 710 field and it is now
> displayed under Creator in Primo. I’m think we can probably move the
> collection name to a 9xx field and create an index for local collection?
> Meanwhile I know Alma has a built-in function for creating local
> collections.
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> I wonder if anyone would like to share how they treat their local
> collection names? Do you use a separate field for it or include it as a
> note? Or do you use the Alma built-in function and not adding the
> collection name in the bib record at all?
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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> Xiping Liu
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> Resource Description Librarian
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> University of Houston Libraries
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> 713-743-3990
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> xliu47 at uh.edu
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