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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Your decision makes sense, Lesley. We weren’t seeing so many broken links, though (luck? Fewer searches?), so we decided to go the other way. We already had a
fairly easy (Voyager) workflow for importing ebrary records, but we didn’t ever establish a speedy way to process deletions – they were time-consuming. So we decided to manage our subscription through the CZ once we moved to Alma.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Our results have been good. We haven’t seen many inaccessible records.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Our ebrary Partners site shows we have150,918 bibs in our subscription for Academic Complete. The number of portfolios listed in the CZ is 150,877. Caveat – because
of ebrary’s transition to ebook Central, those numbers seemed muddled for a while, and maybe we still aren’t comparing apples to apples.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">But if we are, that’s a discrepancy that we think is small enough to live with, for the convenience of not having to manually manage records each month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">I’m really glad for this conversation and others’ experiences, because we’d like to know if the CZ is all it promised to be – the feature of central management
was one of our strongest incentives to move to Alma in the first place. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#16355A">J</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Library Supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#16355A">Peninsula College Library/Media Center<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces@lists.ctc.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lesley Caldwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 24, 2017 2:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTCLC Alma Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Wactclc-alma] Ebook collections in the CZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When we made the decision to move to a local EBSCO collection, it was because thousands of old, inaccurate titles were showing up in our Primo results. I was getting almost daily reports of broken links from
our reference librarians. If you review our cases in Salesforce, we have several examples from the fall of 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We received a title list from EBSCO in November of 2016 and found it to be significantly different than what was in the CZ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Since we already had a workflow for importing records (for Films on Demand), creating our own collection just made the most sense to us. However, if the CZ continues to improve in quality and currency, we may
reconsider. That’s just not the way things were this time last year. :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope that helps!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lesley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Wactclc-alma [<a href="mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Whittaker, Shellie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTCLC Alma Discussion (<a href="mailto:wactclc-alma@lists.ctc.edu">wactclc-alma@lists.ctc.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:wactclc-alma@lists.ctc.edu">wactclc-alma@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> {Spam?} [Wactclc-alma] Ebook collections in the CZ<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At today’s Leads meeting I found myself sort of defending the use of ebook collections in the Community Zone, but the conversation made me realize I might be drawing some errant conclusions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if someone would correct me, or enlighten me, about the accuracy/reliability of the results found using the Community Zone Updates Task List.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here I illustrate my findings as I worked to determine how many and how often
<b><i>EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)</i> </b>portfolios are being added/deleted in Alma’s Community Zone.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It appears that during the period 1/1/2017 – 10/24/2017 22,883 portfolios have been added, with the most recent additions occurring on 8/7. 3,686 have been deleted, with the most recent deletions occurring on 10/23.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are these counts misleading? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If they are accurate, maybe there are other factors involved in the choice to manage this collection locally. While a three-month wait for additions to the collection seems a little bit long (last one was 8/7), it doesn’t seem horrible
and the collection <i>is</i> being maintained on a regular basis. And deletions seem to be happening more often than additions. I wonder if the latency for added portfolios comes from Ebsco’s schedule for updating their collection or the schedule they use
to make that information available to Alma.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What factors are considered when making a choice between using Community Zone collections or creating local collections?<o:p></o:p></p>
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