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Recommendations (Approved by Jennifer Baxmeyer, 5/17/21)

Retain the following Errors in Alma’s default settings: 

• Field * must be empty [Do not configure any fields that must be empty.]

• Mandatory field 245 is empty

• Mandatory field 245 is missing

• Mandatory field LDR is missing

• Multiple occurrences were found for non repeatable field 100

• Multiple occurrences were found for non repeatable field 110

• Multiple occurrences were found for non repeatable field 111

• Multiple occurrences were found for non repeatable field 245

Upgrade the following from warnings to errors:

• Multiple occurrences are found for field 130

• Fields 100, 110, 111, 130 are missing $a

• Field 245 is missing $a; or 245 $a, $b, $c are repeated

• 600, 610, 611, 630, 650, 651 fields are missing $a

• $a is missing in fields 700, 710

Other recommendations:

• Add a warning if 043 has invalid code. Will need to add 043 geographic codes to controlled vocabulary registry.

Solution: Editing Validation Processes and Validation Exception Profiles

Validation settings are configurable in Alma in the Cataloging Configuration menu, accessible by users with the Cataloging Administrator role. These settings are discussed in ExLibris' Editing Validation Processes documentation, linked here.

• Validation tasks for MARC Bibliographic Records can be added or removed using the Validation Processes tab.

• Validation Exception Profiles determine the severity of a validation error. Admins can add/edit a Validation Severity Profile to determine whether something is a ‘warning’ (yellow) or an ‘error’ (red).

• The Alma Tech Team Systems staff configure the validation settings to reflect the recommendations of the task group (as approved by the Wranglers group and Jennifer Baxmeyer, above)