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Sirsi colleges please do not remove policies as this may cause data issues that may require a full restore of the system at the cost of the college library |
The suggestions below are excerpts from Getting Ready for Alma and Discovery Implementation, Appendix B - Optional Data Preparations. This appendix can help you decide which clean-up efforts are a priority for your library – not everything will be relevant to all libraries. Examples of other data cleaning could include:
Library and collection/location names(Reminder for Sirsi colleges: Renaming/Creating new Library policies should only be done by Sirsi; OCLS suggests planning to do this through the mapping form instead of in your Sirsi System)
Bibliographic, holdings and item data
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Enumeration
Statuses and codes
Old/inconsistent data (includes old patron records, fines beyond a certain date and/or less than a certain amount; etc.)
Review of old, unclosed ordersLibrary and collection names
Patron, vendor, library contact names
E-resource and package resources
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Notes P2E (Physical to Electronic) Processing – for local electronic resources that will not be handled via migration or link resolver form:
Due to Alma’s database structure, local catalogue records for electronic resources are migrated as physical resources, then changed into electronic resources viahttps://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Implementation_and_Migration/Migration_Guides_and_Tutorials/Physical_to_Electronic_(P2E)_processing. In brief, this involves the following steps:
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