Contributed collections - a Report to Contributor instead of Report to Ex Libris
There are many collections now that are contributed by the community. Sometimes there are errors within them and as it is now, there is no way to report that and get the linking problem (for an example) fixed and the issues can be so many that a deactivation is necessary, but then the collection becomes dead and just clutter KB. My suggestion is that when a institution contributes a collection, a mandatory field is added to the workflow of contributing. This field contains an email address. That email address is then incorporated into a button so you can report to Contributor instead of the button that is there now Report to ExLibris.
This idea has been put forward before: Email CZ Contributor ... but it's a growing problem.
Lone Katberg
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Jessica Hartwigsen
commented
I've been asking for a way to contact a contributor for years, I support this idea.
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Sandra Wong
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I agree that cluttering the Community Zone (CZ) knowledge base with orphaned collections makes the CZ less useful. Every electronic collection in the CZ needs to be actively curated or reviewed at least once a year if not more often depending on the content of the collection. I fully support this idea.