Better management of serial prediction when publication frequency changes
Sometimes providers change a journal’s publication frequency throughout the year. So, the prediction’s pattern selected / elaborated at the beginning of the year doesn’t work anymore in Alma. One part of predictions (date of receipt) will be ok until the change but all other predicted items will be false. Now, we can revise the prediction during the year but we must erase the items already received. We can also leave the prediction defined at the beginning of the year and edit manually the false items from the time of the prediction change.
It would save a lot of time if Alma could change the description (number, date, …) only for the items that are impacted by a new publication during the year. We would just have to fill the « Next prediction item’s information » with the new frequency.
This enhancement would save a lot of time to catalogers.
Sylvain Courret
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Nate Tinor
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Thank you for this post!
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Christopher Waldrop
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This is a good idea but what's really needed is a thorough revision of the way Alma handles print serials. Print serials, especially periodicals, haven't changed since we used NOTIS, but Alma has made every part of the process unnecessarily complicated to the point that where we used to be able to train student assistants to help now it's a specialized skill. We also can't claim reliably or display print holdings as clearly as we could previously because of Alma's poor design in this area.