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Allow for multiple holdings records and item records to be opened at one time.
Sometimes, it's helpful to look at multiple holdings records at the same time to compare. It's also helpful to have the system open all of the item records for a holdings record at one time if you're gong to be doing minor changes to each one.
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Show Brief Record Levels in Search External Resources
It would be really useful if we could see the brief record level when searching for catalogue records via "Search External Resources".
Currently the only way to perform a brief level analysis on a record is to import and save it. It would be really useful to see this when searching external resources, without having to save and import the record first.
This will be useful to ensure a good level of metadata is maintained across our catalogue.
8 votesHello All,
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When editing a record it would be desirable that for cut/copy and paste fields and subfields should exist specific keys
It's very annoying to use Ctrl v and ctrl c for fields and subfields, as we are used to use it for plain text
2 votesHello All,
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Access to the bibliographic access points of our own catalogue while editing a bibliographic record
When we edit a bibliographic record it's very useful to access and add to the record the different access points of our catalogue in order to avoid typing all the string of data, even if there is no authority record. For example: there is no authority records for all de free floating subdivisions of LCSH that we add to main SH
1 voteHello All,
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Exclude some categories of vendor records from Alma authority control processing
We want to exclude some categories of vendor records from Alma authority control processing. Specifically, we want to exclude certain vendor records with non-standard headings from having those headings evaluated and changed.
For example, we recently loaded Naxos music vendor records which had the non-standard heading "$$a Purcell, Henry $$e Composer". This heading was flipped to "Purcell, H.", a medical doctor, instead of "Purcell, Henry, $$d 1659-1695", the composer.
How can we accomplish this? Are bib records at certain cataloging levels excluded from authority processing? Or are there subfield tags we could append to headings to exclude them from authority…
11 votesHello All,
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Add a new item level material type for 78 rpm sound recordings
The only options for 78 rpm sound recordings currently are "sound recording" or "record (phonodisc)." There is a material type for LPs, so why not for 78s? This is very important for music libraries and archives. Thank you!
1 voteHello All,
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DB-category-job on all bibliographic records
In Alma there is a job that based on a specified marc-field builds up a hierarchy of categories for the A-Z Database search in Primo.
This works fine, but the job is limited to a certian subset of records only.
From Ex Libris:
"The Database Categories File job runs for the benefit of Primo database search, and is therefore relevant only for bib records linked to databases." https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/050Inventory/020Managing_Electronic_Resources#Working_with_Database_Type_Electronic_CollectionsI can understand why it was designed like this, but in our consortia we see that the institutions would like to include other records in the A-Z-list as well. Records that are…
6 votesHello All,
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Remove alert in Metadata Editor for presence of marc 019 field
In the metadata editor, please update the Alerts so that the presence of marc field 019 in a bib record does not generate an error message on save. 019 contains the OCLC control number of duplicate records that have been merged and deleted from WorldCat. It's not a standard marc field, but it contains useful information for OCLC libraries.
11 votesHello All,
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interface
When I split the screen, it would be nice if the background color of the record I'm working on was brighter than the opposite one.
What do you think?1 voteHello All,
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Provide authority control for terms in 3XX fields.
Terms in fields 380, 382, 385 and 386 should be matched to authority records based on the $2 code and an icon placed next to the field when the terms have been verified.
17 votesHello All,
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Add a shortcut for the copyright character in the metadata editor.
Add a shortcut for the copyright character in the metadata editor.
4 votesHello All,
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Bring back the Galileo portfolio holdings in the institutional bibliographic record.
There was a time in which the Alma portfolios for e-journals directly replicated the holdings for the institution that are shown through the Primo userface. Now that this is no longer the case, we're seeing more errors for deactivating and withdrawing journals that we do still have access to, despite not being able to see those available portfolios on the back-end of Alma. This is a problem.
3 votesHello All,
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Include pagination in brief display
After scanning all titles ISBN I have to open the bib record to check the pagination. Include pagination in brief results display so I (or a student worker) can go directly to the item to scan in the barcode.
1 voteHello All,
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read only view of bibliographic record information
There is a need to provide our faculty librarians with a role that allows for a read only view of the bibliographic record information.
1 voteHello All,
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Role for adding normalizations processes
Cataloging staff often need to create normalization or indication rules to edit groups of records. They can create these in the Medatdata Editor but they cannot use them on sets of records until they are added as a process/task in the resources metadata configuration area.
The ability to add processes is limited to the highest role of cataloger administrator which also allows configuration permissions.
Include the ability to add normalization and indication rule processes to the cataloger manager role to allow more flexibility to do global changes on Marc records.
Catalog managers need to add their own rules without giving…
6 votesHello All,
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Ability to set individual item records to not publish
Would like the ability to set individual item records to not be published.
Historically, we did not create item records for individual serial issues, but created a fake item record to get usage which migrated over to Alma. These item records display to the user in Primo.
Our options to fix this would be to give them all a process type, and set that process type to not publish but many of our staff find work orders confusing and we would not like to complicate it further. Alternatively, we could move each one to a suppressed holdings record, which would…
3 votesHello All,
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Refresh button on manage sets page
Please add a refresh button on the Manage Sets page. If a new set is created, it won't show up until I've reloaded the manage sets page. Something similar to the button on the Monitor and View Imports page would be great.
1 voteHello All,
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Being able to release just one record from someone else instead of all their records.
Being able to release just one record from someone else instead of all their records.
2 votesHello All,
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Mask non-individualized GND entries in F3 lookup for fields 100 / 700
The GND contains two types of authority records for persons: Individualized records denoting an identifiable individual and non-individualized ones containing personal names without distinguishing additional information.
Our cataloging team wants to avoid using the latter. Make it possible to mask these entries in the F3 search index of the MARC fields 100 and 700, or to flag them so that they can be recognized immediately (without "expand"ing the list).1 voteHello All,
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Link the "record has match" text alert in metadata editor
In the metadata editor, when a record has a match in the repository, link the text alert to open the matching record.
1 voteHello All,
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