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    1. Go to Alma -> Administration -> Manage jobs -> Run a job.

    2. Job type- Export.

    3. Select Export Bibliographic Records. Click on Next.

    4. Find and select your set of host bib records. Click on Next.

    5. Task Parameters->

      1. Physical format = Binary

      2. Output format = MARC21 Bibliographic

      3. Number of records in file = One file

      4. Export into folder = Private

      5. Click on Next

    6. Schedule job -> As soon as possible. Click on Next.

    7. Review and confirm. Click on Submit.

    8. After your job is completed, go to Alma -> Administration -> Manage Jobs -> Monitor jobs. Click on the History tab.

    9. Find your job, and from the Actions button, select Report.

    10. Click on the link to the exported records to download the .mrc file to your computer.

    1. Open MarcEdit and from the top row of menu options, select Tools -> Export -> Export Tab Delimited Records.

    2. Click on the folder icon next to the top file name box and select the .mrc file created in step 2 above.

    3. Click on the folder icon next to the second file name box and provide a name for the .txt file that will be created as part of this process.

    4. Leave the default values for the Select Field Delimiter and the In Field Delimiter fields and click the Next button.

    5. Enter 001 in the Field box and click the Add Field link.

    6. Enter 774 in the Field box and w in the Subfield box. Click the Add Field link.

    7. Click the Export button.

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    1. Go to Alma -> Manage Sets.

    2. Click on Add Set and select the Itemized option.

    3. Name the set and set content type to All Titles.

    4. In the Add Contents from File to Set section, click on the folder icon and browse to find the .txt file created in Step 4.  (Maximum file size is 10MB. For reference, a file with 6983 MMSIDs was only 128KB)

    5. Click the Save button.

When cleaning up records with no inventory, boundwith records should be excluded. If you have an all titles set of bibliographic records with no inventory (All titles, Has Inventory=no), you can use the combine sets feature (use the NOT operator) to exclude boundwith records.

  • Go to Alma -> Manage Sets.

  • Find your All titles set of bibliographic records with no inventory.

  • Click on the Actions button and select Combine sets.

  • In the General Information section, name your new itemized set.

  • In the Combine sets section select the NOT operator.

  • With: search for your set created in step 5 above.

  • Click on Submit.

The resulting itemized set will include bibliographic records that do not have inventory and are not boundwith records.

  • Go to Alma -> Manage Sets.

  • Find the set created in step 5 above and from the Actions button, select Members.

  • Click on Tools and select Excel. It will take some time to generate the spreadsheet.

  • When the spreadsheet is generated, a prompt to save the file will appear.

  • Save the file.

  • Open the file in Excel.

  • Sort Column R (Availability). Any blank cells in that column represent a problem with a link.

  • If you have blank cells in Column R, refer to Fixing Broken Boundwith Links in Migrated Records..


SectionPoint Person

Expected Completion Date

Last action takenNext action required

Articulate the need for the policy procedures (background)

TS Leads

 

Create a Policy Statement9/15/16 - Procedure needed to identify a set of migrated boundwith records (host bibs & constituents)


Discussion with TS Working Group.

Create a Procedure

Cataloging Task Force

 

10/17/16 - Draft completed

Identify and create best practice recommendations


 



Where applicable, identify and write up procedures in Alma


 




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