[Wactclc-alma] Correcting Material Type in ALMA

[Guidry, Wade]

To add a bit more info to my earlier post...

When you say 'resource type' in Alma / Primo, you're generally referring to a value determined by MARC Leader fields 06 and 07.

To see how those fields determine the resource type facet values in Primo VE, see Mapping Resource Types in Primo VE<https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/050Other_Configuration/Mapping_to_the_Display%2C_Facets%2C_and_Search_Sections_in_the_Primo_VE_Record#Mapping_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE>

To search by resource type in Alma, you need to do a title search, rather than an ite search, since resource type is relevant to the MARC records, rather than item records.

To search by resource type, you can do a Physical Title advanced search in Alma, and select to search by resource type.

But be aware, there are a lot more individual resource types in Alma than appear in Primo. That's simply because so many different resource types are availble in the MARC standard, and Primo collapses many of those into subsets, to make things simpler for users.

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Wade Guidry
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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of McGaughey, Colleen
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 2:22 PM
To: Wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Correcting Material Type in ALMA

Hi all,

I hope that I am posting this to the correct email address. This is my first time posting to WACTCLC.

A few months ago I started working at technical college. I have been in library services for many years, but have never used ALMA.

A short time after I started, I did an analytic report and realized that our collection could use some tidying up. For exam, there are a items that display the Material Type as "Other", when it is really a videorecording. I would like to correct these records to display the Material Type as "Video Cassette". I know that I need to do a search and save a query in order to run a job, but I have been having a hard time with getting the results I want on my ALMA searches.

I have tried different variations of searches. I am attaching a screenshot below of one of my search attempts which provided 0 search results.

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I used "videorecording" in the title, as most of our video cassettes list [videorecording] as part of the title.

I would really appreciate your tips, tricks and advice on how to best accomplish this task.

Thanks!
Colleen McGaughey
Clover Park Technical College

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