[Wactclc-alma] Gale eBooks

Sat Jul 31 19:53:45 PDT 2021

Melinda,

No, we didn’t. But we could talk about in the Tuesday call.

Wade Guidry
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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Martin, Melinda
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Did you all end up talking about the patron purge? My husband landed in the Urgent Care, then ER, then Hospital yesterday – so I was unable to work.

If you did talk about it, was it recorded?

-Melinda

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Guidry, Wade
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We can talk more about this on this morning’s call, for those who can join. I intended to do that on Tuesday, but my Internet was down here, so no meeting happened.

Also, the user purge questions that have come up on the list would also be a good discussion.

Just a warning, some construction noise going on at my place this morning. A couple of new windows going in. But I’ll use a headset to keep the background noise to a minimum.

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This is amazingly helpful.  Thank you so much for sharing this SJ!

It will be ok!

Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Devereux, Saint-Jean
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Hi All,

I mentioned at this morning's call that I chose to create a separate local collection for the WSL subsidized Gale ebooks to keep them separate from our CZ GVRL collection. If anyone else wants to do that they can save some time by modifying my spreadsheet and loading it to Alma. The urls have our proxy prefix and Gale site url so those would need to be removed/replaced.
I could not get any of the Information Plus Reference Series titles to work, in this collection, or by activating them in the Gale Cengage Virtual Reference Library- KERIS collection, and our librarians decided they didn't want them anyway, so those would also need to be removed, suppressed, or configured also. Let me know if you have any questions. Please see attached.

regards,
sj

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Here it is.

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Thanks, Traci.

Is there a link somewhere to the list?

Wade Guidry

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Traci Taylor
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Yes there is a title list.

On Jul 13, 2021, at 7:38 PM, Guidry, Wade <WadeG at bigbend.edu<mailto:WadeG at bigbend.edu>> wrote:

Good catch, Traci.

I’ll have to amend the info I’ve posted on the WACTCLC web site about Gale WSL and Alma CZ<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibguides.bigbend.edu%2Fc.php%3Fg%3D1142085%26p%3D8467169&data=04%7C01%7Cmelinda.martin%40scc.spokane.edu%7C2f7ade3e150f4ee2764b08d952ae43c3%7C4dedfefa6bd04442a06c98aed0b4b8da%7C1%7C1%7C637631730680432283%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=4C3pQ9UVOxftpwHrOO9tRcN2U2KBWBFiTBAe2ikAIhw%3D&reserved=0>.

It is *very important* to note what you and Kirsti have uncovered, that the Gale eBooks via WSL will be very limited.

The suggestion Kirsti makes below will work. Select “we subscribe to only some titles in the collection.”

Once we know what that list of titles is, libraries can then activate based on a spreadsheet of ISBNS, like Kirsti suggests.

Is there a known list of the titles offered in the WSL Gale collection?

Wade Guidry

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Thomas, Kirsti
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Traci,

We don’t have a subscription for Gale Ebooks. We just buy individual titles (usually as big batch orders once a year).

When we migrated to Alma, we activated the Gale eBooks electronic collection from the Community Zone and selected the “we subscribe to some of the titles in this collection” option.  We then used a spreadsheet with ebook ISBNs we downloaded from our Gale admin account to activate just the titles we owned.

When we buy new Gale eBooks, we look for a portfolio record in the Gale eBooks CZ electronic collection, manually create a POL on the portfolio record, and manually activate the portfolio record once we’ve confirmed Gale has turned on access on their platform.

We may change how we handle the individually-purchased Gale titles in Alma depending on what’s going on with the WSL-brokered Gale package.  We won’t want to have titles we paid for in the same electronic collection as titles that are in the WSL-brokered statewide package.

I know that didn’t answer your exact question, but I hope this helps!

It will be ok!

Kirsti S. Thomas

Library Technical Services Manager

Seattle Colleges

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Traci Taylor
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Gale eBooks

Hi Wade,

I am activating the Gale databases, and I noticed that the Gale eBooks database has 32555 portfolios, but the Gale eBooks database that we subscribe to only has about 90. Do I activate the collection and choose 'we only subscribe to some of the titles in this collection'?

Thanks,

Traci

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