Overriding and/or deleting a continuous POL at the item level
As a cataloger at a large research library, we frequently receive gap-fill purchases of periodical issues from third-party vendors or as gifts from donors—including for subscriptions that are still open.
We know that we can associate a POL at the holding level, but this is undesirable for these situations where we need to trace the POL/method-of-acquisition to an individual item. Also, if you change a continuous POL at the item level, Alma changes the POL for every item attached to that same holding.
Often we have many items purchased with different (or no) POLs—subscription, firm order, gift—together on one holding, and these items need to be on the same holding to clearly reflect what we hold, sequentially, to our users.
It would be highly useful if Alma allowed catalogers and acquisitions staff to override a hyperlinked (continuous) POL at the item level to accommodate these very common occurrences of gifts (with no POL) and gap-fills (with differing POLs).
With thanks for your consideration! :’)
Anonymous
shared this idea
Dear Community,
After careful consideration, we’ve determined that the proposed flow is not currently supported in Alma and does not align with the existing entity structure. Implementing this idea would require further analysis and development, which could potentially impact other areas of Alma.
As a result, we’ve decided not to move forward with this idea at this time.
We greatly value your input and encourage you to continue sharing your ideas with us in the future. Your suggestions help us improve and evolve the platform.
Best Wishes,
Zohar Shemesh
Alma Product Team
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Nancy Babb
commented
Considering the number of votes here in the Idea Exchange and the extreme importance this has to so many libraries, I wish you would reconsider this proposal and how Ex Libris development could make it happen. Its lack makes our work harder than it should be. I appreciate the explanation that the flow is not currently supported and doesn't align with existing entity structure, but we do need the system to evolve and adapt to our needs, especially needs of long standing and documented relevance.