Practical Applications | Annual Meeting Conrad B/C
May 16, 2024 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM(America/Chicago)
20240516T1215 20240516T1300 America/Chicago Setting Up Local Holdings Records (LHR) Data Sync With OCLC: Not Just for Serials The Georgia Tech Library has a complex Alma setup and set of policies for interlibrary loan lending. When I arrived in the fall of 2022, holdings were out of date and did not accurately reflect the actual lending policies. This forced our ILL staff into extra work since we received requests for material we no longer owned, material we wouldn't lend, and conversely, internal users searching OCLC products requesting material via ILL that we did actually own. In order to reduce this extra work, I set out to sync all of our holdings as Local Holdings Records through OCLC Data Sync. In this presentation I'll cover the unique challenges from our environment, why I chose LHRs over bib data, and the Alma-based ways I (mostly) solved them. By trying to solve as much as possible within Alma, I believe the knowledge and workflow is more stable and sustainable. Conrad B/C Ex Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Events 2024 eluna-conf-planning@exlibrisusers.org
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The Georgia Tech Library has a complex Alma setup and set of policies for interlibrary loan lending. When I arrived in the fall of 2022, holdings were out of date and did not accurately reflect the actual lending policies. This forced our ILL staff into extra work since we received requests for material we no longer owned, material we wouldn't lend, and conversely, internal users searching OCLC products requesting material via ILL that we did actually own. In order to reduce this extra work, I set out to sync all of our holdings as Local Holdings Records through OCLC Data Sync. In this presentation I'll cover the unique challenges from our environment, why I chose LHRs over bib data, and the Alma-based ways I (mostly) solved them. By trying to solve as much as possible within Alma, I believe the knowledge and workflow is more stable and sustainable.
Alma
Understand the benefits of syncing LHRs with OCLC for more than just serials
Understand how to set up the Local Holdings Record sync profile in Alma
Understand how to update and use the normalize on save rules in Alma to automatically update metadata
Systems Librarian
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Georgia Tech
Technical Services Librarian
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Purdue University Northwest
Library Services Platform Administrator
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University Of Texas Libraries
Resource Sharing Associate & Technical Specialist
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University Of Waterloo
Director, Content & Access
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Washtenaw Community College
 Wendy Crist
Metadata & Discovery Systems Librarian
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Arkansas State University
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