Week 1 Implementation: Orientation, Navigation & Searching
Video Trainings
Alma Essentials Orientation Trainings
Introduction to Alma Training (11 min)
Introduction to Alma (12 min)
Alma Essentials Navigation and Searching Trainings
Navigating in Alma (10 min)
Searching in Alma (7 min)
Alma Collaborative Networks - Introduction (9 min)
Shared Bibliographic Records in the Network Zone (9 min)
Using your sandbox, sign in as AlmaUser01 and complete the following exercises. To complete these exercises, you may choose to use the italicized prompts or follow the step-by-step instructions posted below the prompts.
Exercises - Navigation and Searching
Search for bib records
Basic search: All titles + Keywords
All Titles search using the persistent search for a resource of your choice (Use "Anne of Green Gables" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" if you can’t think of anything) and tell if it is on shelf or notBasic search: Electronic titles + ISSN Equals 1526-5501
Advanced search: All titles + MMS ID > 1
This search returns all the bib records.Basic Search for a specific MMS ID using
All titles + MMS ID Equals 9933541406532
Perform an advanced "All titles" search for all bibs without ANY inventory (no holdings and no items)
Advanced Search: All titles + Has inventory = NoPerform an advanced "Physical titles" search for holdings in a location
Advanced Search: Physical titles + Holding > Permanent physical location =Using Advanced Search for Physical Items, find one of the following (choose one): a) all the items that are checked out; b) all lost items; or c) all items in the Reference collection
Advanced Search: Physical Items >a) Process type = Loan
b) Process type = Lost;
c) Holding > Permanent physical location =
Search for an electronic portfolio/title of your choice, locating it in the CZ and in your database and tell what collection(s)/package(s) it is part of
Basic electronic portfolio/titlePerform an "Electronic Portfolio" search for is Standalone = Yes
Advanced Search: Electronic portfolio + Electronic portfolio > Is Standalone - Equals – YesPerform an "Electronic Collection" search for interface name contains "Ovid"
Advanced Search: Electronic collection + Electronic collection > Interface Name - contains keywords - Ovid
Exercises - Alma Collaborative Network
Searching bib records in the Network Zone:
All Titles search, choose Network Zone in the drop down of the consistent search box
keyword search
Note: Physical Titles search in the Network Zone returns no results because there's no inventory in the network zone.Searching for a bib record in the IZ that is linked to NZ:
All Titles search, choose IZ in the drop down of the consistent search box: keyword search
Click on the NZ icon to go to the record in the NZ tab, click on Held By to see My Institution, click on My Institution.
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