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Decouple the bib-level material type of Music into Scores and Sound Recordings
The bibliographic material type of Music inexplicably combines scores (Leader/06 c or d) and sound recordings (Leader/06 i or j) into a single facet. This makes no sense and makes standard statistics reporting extremely difficult as scores are usually reported with books (they are, after all, pieces of paper bound between covers) whereas sound recordings are usually reported with other media. Scores should be separated out as its own bib-level material type.
190 votes“Music” is one of the seven different distinct bibliographic material types used by the MARC standard: https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdintro.html
This is defined as: “Music (MU) - used for printed, electronic, manuscript, and microform music, as well as musical sound recordings, and non-musical sound recordings. Material may be monographic or serial in nature”.
As adherence to the MARC standard is important to many of our customers (as also reflected in the comments to this idea), we will keep these distinct seven formats, and not add or subtract from them.
Alma also provides a “Resource Type” category, which is more granular and is based on a combination of fields – this includes the following non-musical types:
Audio nonmusical – Physical: LDR pos. 06 = i AND LDR pos. 7 = m AND 008 pos. 23 != a,b,c,o,f,q,s (MARC 21), LDR pos. 6 = i (UNIMARC) or LDR pos. 06 = i AND LDR pos.…
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Provide authority control for terms in 3XX fields.
Terms in fields 380, 382, 385 and 386 should be matched to authority records based on the $2 code and an icon placed next to the field when the terms have been verified.
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The text font ,font size and color of Metadata Editor
1.When using Metadata Editor, the font size and color of the editing area are not friendly to the editor.
2.The text in the editing area needs to be enlarged by 150% in the browser to make it convenient for users to work for a long time
3.The text color or font in the editing area causes the black text to look like gray, which makes it inconvenient to check the bibliography
4.Can workers modify the Metadata Editor environment to make them comfortable working environment, such as the font size, font type, and font color in the editing area?
This can…
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Include games and models as Resource Types
In accordance with the MARC21 Format for Bibliographic Data, when LDR pos. 06 = r (for "three-dimensional artifact"), we're supposed to follow the "Visual materials" definition of 008, described at https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008v.html.
Currently, the Rules Used to Create the Resource Type Field (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/010Getting_Started/050Alma_User_Interface_%E2%80%93_General_Information/Searching_in_Alma#Rules_Used_to_Create_the_Resource_Type_Field_MARC_21_KORMARC_and_UNIMARC) do not include games or models.
These would be indicated in the bibliographic record as:
LDR pos. 06 = r AND 008 pos. 33 = g (for "game")
LDR pos. 06 = r AND 008 pos. 33 = q (for "model")Could these specifications be added to this Rules list? They are currently listed as…
14 votesHello All,
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Add validating MARC field and record character limits
Please add the capability when validating records to check for MARC field and record character limits (9,999 and 99,999 octets respectively, https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html). We understand that Alma does not impose character limits on MARC fields and records, but we often exchange records with other vendors or companies. We need this feature to ensure that our data transfers properly and does not exceed data limits imposed by the MARC format.
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Ability to configure the subject list names of the Browse Bibliographic Headings
Currently, the Browse Bibliographic Headings subject list names the CZ vocabularies and is OTB provided and cannot be changed.
As we use only a few of this vocabulary, we would like to be to configure it and be able to choose which one appears in the list.14 votesHello All,
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Authority--Normalize periods in initialisms and acronyms by elimininating them, not replacing them with spaces
Currently large numbers of headings with initialisms and acronyms appear as "ambiguous" on the Authority Control Task List. When viewed in "edit" the headings appear both with and without periods. There is, in fact, no ambiguity because both forms of the heading appear on the same authority record. One form is in the 1xx field and the other is in the 4xx field. Examples are: PBS Distribution (Firm), NASA technical memorandum and JPS anthology of Jewish thought.
This is a problem because headings listed as "ambiguous" need to be manually edited to link to the authority record, one-by-one. There are…
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Back button in new MD Editor
Please add a Back button to the new MD Editor. This is necessary in the Relink item records to another bib record process. When we create a new holdings record in the middle of the relink process, the Back button allows us to go back to the relink process, and finish up. Details, please refer to Salesforce case # 909005.
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Add the 585 field to search index
The 585 Exhibition note is not currently indexed in Alma for searching. Would you please either add it to the Notes index or create a new index for it? Thanks.
12 votesHello All,
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Remove alert in Metadata Editor for presence of marc 019 field
In the metadata editor, please update the Alerts so that the presence of marc field 019 in a bib record does not generate an error message on save. 019 contains the OCLC control number of duplicate records that have been merged and deleted from WorldCat. It's not a standard marc field, but it contains useful information for OCLC libraries.
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Exclude some categories of vendor records from Alma authority control processing
We want to exclude some categories of vendor records from Alma authority control processing. Specifically, we want to exclude certain vendor records with non-standard headings from having those headings evaluated and changed.
For example, we recently loaded Naxos music vendor records which had the non-standard heading "$$a Purcell, Henry $$e Composer". This heading was flipped to "Purcell, H.", a medical doctor, instead of "Purcell, Henry, $$d 1659-1695", the composer.
How can we accomplish this? Are bib records at certain cataloging levels excluded from authority processing? Or are there subfield tags we could append to headings to exclude them from authority…
11 votesHello All,
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Add more Law Libraries to the External Search Profiles
We would like more Law Libraries to be added to the External Search Profiles. Law Libraries use a different classification schema for call numbers and it would be great if we could add the correct information into our records when importing them.
Specifically we would like the following:
York University
Alberta Law Libraries
Law Society of Upper Canada
Supreme Court of Canada Library10 votesHello All,
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MARC field 026 should be searchable
To identify ancient editions, it's important to register the "fingerprint", that MARC21 register in tag 026. This tag should be searchable in ALMA and in Primo
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Add a flag to indicate that a bibliographic record has been reviewed by a cataloger
Since bibliographic, holdings, and often items records are created at the point of order, it is impossible to easily tell whether or not a record has already been reviewed by a cataloger (for those types of resources that are still manually cataloged from the material in hand). A flag is needed to display (similar to the suppressed icon) on a list of titles in Repository Search so that staff can tell at a glance that a record has already been vetted by other qualified staff.
This is particularly necessary for staff working within a consortium; staff from one institution need…
10 votesHello All,
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Add option to Print bib record from MDE
We find it useful to have a printed bib record to reference on paper for various purposes, but Alma lacks the means to "Print" a bib record in the MDE. It would be extremely helpful to add Alma's print functionality as a button in the MDE menu options so that we can print specific records on physical sheets, as PDFs, etc.
9 votesHello All,
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Duplicate MARC fields
The ability to duplicate MARC fields in the bib and holdings.
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Push bib record to MDE and make it as selected or opened by default or configurable
At present, bib record record pushed into MDE are not selected or opened in MDE. We want to make the record that is most recently pushed into MDE as the selected or opened record in MDE for streamline the workflow and improve productivity. If this requirement is not common, please think about making it configurable via a Customer Parameter.
9 votesHello All,
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Ability to make the option suppress from discovery and Don't publish to WorldCat default in Metadadata Editor templates
In cases whena a library manages collections that should not be visible in PRIMO or in WorldCat, it would be of value if Metadata Editor Templates could be configured so that suppress from discovery and Don't publish to WorldCat is set as default.
9 votesHello All,
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Enable separate authority control for LC children's subject headings (6xx second indicator 1).
I have been told that the LC children's subject headings have been merged into the LC adult headings, and that therefore the only way to control those headings is to change the existing 2nd indicator 1 to 0. This is non-standard MARC coding per MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data, which specifies second indicator 1 for LC subject headings for children's literature. It is my understanding that other libraries requested this change, so the activation of a separate LC children's subject headings thesaurus should be an option for those libraries that wish to continue standard MARC coding practice.
9 votesHello All,
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Adding the "Assign record to another cataloger" functionality in search results actions links
We use regularly the 'Assign record to another cataloger' functionality in the MD editor for corrections, for records enhancements, ... But this is unfortunately limited to catalogers roles.
It would really improve our resource management workflows if this Assign function was made available from search results lists. Other staff roles would so push records in an enhancements flow (such as improve marc records for newly created portfolios, such as indexing tasks, such as apply corrections that don't require having book in hands...). We actually use work orders for some in those tasks but this workflows are not always appropriate and…9 votesHello All,
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