[Wactclc-alma] Follow-up from Monday's meeting at Bellevue College

[Nicole Longpre]

Hi Dale,

Obviously I am not Wade, but I had asked a similar question to your question 1 to Justine just before go live and here is her response:
If a record (portfolio) exists in the CZ, can we simply activate it in Alma without activating the relevant collection in PCI?



Yes, you can.



The 2 primary reasons to activate in the PCI are:



1. You want to enable full-text article searching in Primo



If journal package is only activated in Alma, then only the bib record metadata is searchable in Primo.



But, if you activate in the PCI as well, any article full-text info that Ex Libris has available in the PCI for those journals will be searchable by patrons as well.



This is particularly powerful for journal packages, and is a great patron service. Ebook content in Primo won't be full-text searchable, even if you enable those collections in the PCI.



(there's also a subtlety here about searching Primo with the "expand my search" feature, which some of you may have enabled)



2. You want a collection searchable in Primo (via 'expand my results), but don't want to activate or manage the collection in Alma, either because you don't own it, or some other reason.


From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Dale Burke
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:24 AM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Follow-up from Monday's meeting at Bellevue College

Hello all,

First, I want to say that the meeting was very beneficial. It was great to meet Wade in person, and I was impressed with some of Wade's explanations of a couple of topics.

I am hoping that Wade could reiterate a couple of the comments he made during our meeting at Bellevue.  This would be helpful for me and for anyone who was not able to attend the meeting.

Could you re-explain the following in easy to understand terms:

1)  Activating an electronic collection in Alma vs Primo PCI activation.  Subtle differences that we need to understand more fully.  Is there a "best practice" for making sure your coverage is what you expect.

2)  How to get the best coverage for EBSCO articles in Primo.  There was a discussion about EBSCO at the article level vs. some other means.  There was also talk about how to use alternative coverage for EBSCO articles.  I would like to see this explained in more detail.

I would also encourage others who attended to post any follow-up "Aha" moments or questions from the meeting.

Dale Burke
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