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Best practice recommendations
Normalization rule: CSU Remove 029,938,948 NZ (This normalization rules removes Marc fields: 029, 938 and 948 from the NZ record.)
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Alma Configuration: Network Zone Instance (no action required by individual institutions)
The following settings are already established in the Connexion integration profile in the NZ and are for reference only. Each institution does NOT need to configure an Alma Integration Profile for Connexion in order to use Connexion to export and overlay records into the Network Zone. Each institution ONLY needs to set credentials in Connexion as explained above For reference, we are documenting the settings currently used in the NZ instance below.
Please note that the Import Profiles Task Force continues to investigate the optimal settings for this import profile and these settings listed below are subject to modification.
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- Synchronize with External Catalog : Publish Bibliographic Records(i.e. adding holdings to OCLC): It is unknown how this function would work because the Connexion integration profile is set up at the NZ level and applies CSU-wide. From Alma documentation it seems like publishing holdings to OCLC should be established at the institution level. At the institution level there is a configuration in Alma to synchronize holdings with OCLC.
Optional Alma Configuration: Institution Zone Instances (to enable export from Connexion directly into your Institution Zone - action optional by each institution)
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