Show in name of person who created the bibliographic record
When reviewing a bibliographic record in the record information section, the ID of the user who created the record is displayed but not the name.
It would be useful if Alma showed the name of the cataloger (and not the ID) currently it is necessary to search by ID later to know who created or modified a bibliographic record.
Evelyn
shared this idea
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Stacey van Groll
commented
It this idea was approved, I would like to advocate that it should be opt-in, or the name data should be an addition, rather than a replacement for the IDs.
I'm aware that some sites may use data such as strings of numbers for IDs. At our site we have Primary IDs which are staff usernames and they are able to be identified without manual crosschecks, so this is not a factor.
A greater concern though is that names are changeable whereas Primary IDs are not. For example, we may have staff who have changed their names, for reasons such as personal relationships, by personal choice, or to reflect identity.
This becomes an issue when data displayed is the prior name which may cause distress to individuals as well as confusion for other staff.
It could be that Ex Libris would update this data retrospectively for name changes, but this would presumably add considerable complexity to the development, such as if the account had been deleted from Alma.
As such, we would choose not to enable this feature, if indeed it was added as opt-in and would support Ex Libris using Primary ID consistently for the above reasons.