BrowZine Standardization

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Status

decided

Scope

Post-Migration

Description

Determine whether the BrowZine implementation should be standardized across IZs

Decision

Campuses do not need to standardize their implementation of BrowZine. However, campuses are encouraged to choose “option 2”, all setup done in the IZ, unless Third Iron recommends otherwise.

Owning group

Implementation Coordinators

Approver

PPC

Stakeholders

R = IC/Local Campus Expert (varies across campuses)
A = IC
C = IC
I = IC and relevant campus experts

Decision-making process

Discuss amongst ICs and then send to PPC for final approval.

Priority

 

Due date

Oct 29, 2021

Recommendation

Campuses do not need to standardize their implementation of BrowZine. However, campuses are encouraged to choose “option 2”, all setup done in the IZ, unless Third Iron recommends otherwise.

Reasoning

Multiple campuses have already implemented BrowZine using “option 2”, the option where all configuration is done within the IZ. Because of this, switching to “option 1”, which is a hybrid of IZ and NZ setup, would be disruptive to these campuses.

Should we standardize on option 2? We are choosing not to standardize on option 2 to provide flexibility if the option 1 setup makes more sense for a particular campuses setup or if they run into issues when trying to setup option 2. That said, option 2 is now Third Iron’s officially recommended method and is also the method most campuses have implemented. As such, we recommend campuses choose option 2 unless Third Iron recommends otherwise.

Background

There are now two different ways to implement BrowZine.

Option 1

This is the older method. To implement option 1, we would have 10 BrowZine publishing profiles in the NZ and each IZ would also have a publishing profile.

Option 2

Combines data into a single set and only requires a publishing profile in the IZ.  It is currently the (new) recommended method for new implementations.  Third Iron and Ex Libris now both consider this the preferred method.  Third Iron reports that one library did have trouble using this approach but that particular library had an unusual setup.

Dependencies

Questions to consider

Third Iron Documentation

https://support.thirdiron.com/knowledgebase/articles/1910437-alma-publishing-profile-fully-automated - Instructions for “option 2” are at the top in the “Single Institution (IZ) and Consortia Members (IZ + NZ) Configuration” section. Option 1 requires following some of the instructions in “Single Institution (IZ) and Consortia Members (IZ + NZ) Configuration” plus the NZ following the instructions in the “Multicampus Configuration” section.

 

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Status

@Gem Stone-Logan draft decision page

10/19/2021

 

DONE

 

 

 

 

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