Steps and tips for locally loading OhioLINK's 2024 comprehensive e-resouce record files in Sierra from Ohio University Libraries ahead of migration to Alma.
Finding and deleting attached order/item records on e-resources in Sierra will prevent the e-resource records from migrating to Alma while retaining them in Sierra.
To improve Network Zone matching for go-live, verifying the 001 and 003 fields in Sierra for local records will help ensure that OCLC numbers are used in the matching process and mismatches are prevented.
Prior to Alma migration, an 035 NOMIGRATE field can be added to bibliographic records to prevent them from being retained in Alma for go-live while maintaining the records in Sierra.
Search your local database for OhioLINK proxy links and update them to GO links.
Find 9xx fields used in Sierra using a SQL query.
Prior to Alma migration, quotation marks must be cleaned up in Sierra for successful data validation using a SQL query.
Prior to Alma migration, quotation marks in non-MARC records must be cleaned up in Sierra for successful data validation.
The document is an overview of how the matching process for the Alma migration works.
In order to keep local metadata consistent, Sierra Statistics can identify the system codes actually used in records which can then be cleaned up as needed then documented for future reference.
