[Wactclc-alma] subject heading search

[Thomas, Kirsti]

This turned out to be easier than I thought. I thought you’d have to create multiple analyses and filter for MMSIDs or Portfolio IDs not contained in or contained in the other analyses.

Turns out you can do it with 1 analyses just by using the right filter on the Subjects field from the Bibliographic Details folder (which shows up in most of the Alma Analytics subject areas).

The Subjects field contains *all* subject headings in the bib record. If there’s only 1 single subject heading in a bib record, then the Subjects field only has that one subject heading and nothing else.

So create an Alma Analytics report with a filter on the Subjects field like this:

Subjects = Electronic books.

You have to make sure the capitalization matches exactly, and you have to make sure that if your subject heading has a period at the end you include the period in your filter.

Does this make sense?


Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu







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I had a question from our collections development librarian, Adrienne. She is working on collections for our nursing program for their upcoming accreditation.



Adrienne has found titles with only the subject heading "electronic books" but nothing about the content, and it isn't just the nursing books.



Can the hive mind give us some ideas of a search or a report to find the titles where the ONLY assigned subject heading is "electronic books"?



Cara Beth Stevenson

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John Spellman Library

Grays Harbor College
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