[Wactclc-alma] CDI questions

[Guidry, Wade]

Nicole,

You're right, the Euromonitor record in the CZ is just a database record, with no portfolios, or any full text context. So, if you activate it, you'll get a single record appearing in Primo, with a link to the search portal site for that database.  If you can get portfolio title records from the vendor, then you could create a local electronic collection from those.

For Agricola or other Ebsco databases, activating the Agricola record from the CZ will activate the portfolio set, and will also automatically activate any alternative coverage full text content, without having to take any additional action.

Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Nicole Longpre
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 10:57 AM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] CDI questions

I've been working on evaluating and cleaning up records for the upcoming change to CDI. This was a great opportunity to clean up records that we no longer are using!

I did have questions about a couple of items.

  *   I came across a couple of collections that had not been added to Alma, such as Euromonitor. I was able to find a record in the CZ for Euromonitor, but there are no portfolios attached.
Would I then need to load portfolios or is there a better course of action?

  *   Some of our EBSCO collections are not in Alma, as we used alternative coverage. Some of the EBSCO databases, like Agricola, have records in the CZ. I think I should localize those and add them to our collection, but I am not certain how that will fare with the alternate coverage that had previously been activated.

I'd appreciate your thoughts about this. In a way, I worry that I may be overthinking as this has been in the forefront of my work recently.

Nicole Longpré (she/her)
Systems Librarian
Library Interim2 Dean
Bellevue College
nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:nlongpre at bellevuecollege.edu>

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