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The search box below limits results to Alliance webpages with categories for training and documentation. This is different from the search box at the upper right, which searches both the Alliance website and files stored on the Alliance’s Shared Drive for WordPress.
Results are displayed below the search box, with initial results including all pages with either Documentation or Training categories.
Enter search terms or phrases, and adjust the training resource types and/or categories to filter the results.
Filter Options
These are the options for filtering by training resource type and/or categories.
- Training Resource Types
- Training & Documentation: The default selection will return webpages with either the Documentation or Training categories.
- Documentation: Webpages are primarily text based, but may incorporate screen captures and other images.
- Training: Webpages may include video, audio, recordings, and other resources that demonstrate processes or practices.
- Any Category: These categories provide more options to filter results and are associated with Alliance program areas.
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Local Fields Best Practices, FAQ, and Tables
This page contains best practices and FAQs about local fields in Alma.
Policy: Importing Records to the Network Zone Without Consistent OCLC Numbers
This policy specifies the process for loading bibliographic records from vendors that do not supply OCLC control numbers (OCNs).
Guidelines for Editing PCC Bibs in WorldCat
These guidelines clarify what can be edited by NACO/SACO institutions and non-NACO/SACO institutions.
Policy: Deleting bare Network Zone Records from an IZ
This policy ensures operators working in an Institution Zone do not delete Network Zone records that appear bare, but in fact may be linked to bound-with titles in a local IZ.
Creating a Set of Boundwith Records
These instructions show one method of creating a set of boudwith records so they can be excluded from other sets.
Automatic loading of WorldShare Collection files via FTP
When files in WorldShare Collections reach the 31-day mark of existence they will be placed in a ZIP file. This document explains the impact on Alliance libraries and what needs to be done.
Alma OCA Normalize Process
Normalization rules can be grouped together and packaged into a single process which can then be used in both import profiles and external system configurations (e.g., the Alma configuration for OCLC’s Connexion imports) to modify all bibliographic records being imported into Alma.
Alma Indication Rules: Tips and Tricks for Alliance Members
This FAQ addresses questions gathered from the Technical Services community about indication rules.
Best Practice: Adding missing ISBNs to existing WorldCat records
When Alliance catalogers find Network Zone records that lack ISBNs, the ISBNs should be added to the WorldCat master record.
Alma Daily Bib Record Updates & OCLC WorldShare Collection Manager
The document describes both the WorldCat Collection Manager that is used to create the daily files of new, updated, merged, and deleted WorldCat records for the Alliance, and the Alma NZ import profiles that are used to load the records into the NZ.
- Documentation
- Documentation is primarily text based, but it can incorporate screen captures and other images.
- Training
- Training includes video, audio, recorded sessions, and other resources that demonstrate a principle or process.
The option "Documentation & Training" will return webpages in either category.