Add to General Publishing profile the ability to include holdings details for related inventory
We have large numbers of "bound with" titles e.g. pamphlets. These have MARC Bibliographic records but no Holdings or Items - they are linked to the parent volume, which has the Holdings and Inventory information. When the "bound with" records are published using a General Publishing profile, the Holdings information is not added from the related (parent) record, and the records appear to have no Holdings. We would like the option to include Holdings and Items for Related records in these cases, so that the library and location of the title can be included in the published records.
Related records can now be republished to external systems, so that the external catalog has a full representation of the catalog and inventory of your library. You can include the related record information (bibliographic and physical inventory). If the institution is part of a consortium, then when publishing bibliographic records from the Network Zone to an external system, the related records information can also be published to the external system.
For more information please see Alma December Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes
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Laura Akerman commented
I am wondering, in the case of parent records that have multiple items, if there is a possibility for patron confusion as to which item is bound with the child (record without items) bibliographic entity? This would be the case if no bibliographic record for the volume as a while has been created, but the holdings and barcode are attached to the first pamphlet in the volume, and there happens to also be a separate item for a separately bound instance of that pamphlet.
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Fran Abbs commented
Just to note, this would add equivalent functionality to General Publishing that is already available for the Publishing to OCLC profile. It seems unfair that the same is not available in General Publishing.
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Sue Elphinstone commented
This is a great idea Fran