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Resource Management in Alma D

Rearranging Objects in Collections

Alma Digital Hierarchy

The top level collection of Marymount Alma Digital can be found here: https://wrlc-mar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01WRLC_MAR:01WRLC_MAR&inst=01WRLC_MAR&collectionId=81278481050004106


The map of subcollections is shown below and this will be vital for sorting digital content into its proper location. Each subcollection displays the title and the legacy Islandora persistent identifier in parenthesis.


  • Marymount University Digital Collections (muislandora:root)

    • Faculty and Student Scholarship (muislandora:institutional_repository)

      • Celebrating Faculty and Student-Faculty Scholarship (muislandora:1755)

      • Interior Design Collection (muislandora:5392)

        • Graduate Projects or Theses (muislandora:5390)

        • Undergraduate projects (muislandora:5394)

      • Marymount Graduate Theses and Projects (graduatethesesandprojects:3)

      • Marymount Student Artwork (islandora:studentart)

      • Nursing (Doctor of Nursing Practice) Projects (NursingProgramProjects:2)

      • Physical Therapy Collection (muislandora:3977)

      • Portfolio In Motion Fashion Show (muislandora:4198)

      • Student Artwork Collection (muislandora:78)

      • Student Research Conference (muislandora:2930)

      • Undergraduate Honors Theses (honorstheses:2)

    • Digital and Special Collections (muislandora:digital_specol

      • Campus Buildings (muislandora:970)

      • High School Yearbooks (highschoolyearbooks:2)

      • History of Marymount (islandora:HistoryofMarymount)

      • Little Sisters Handbooks (littlesisters:2)

      • Mabelle Wilhelmina Boldt Collection (muislandora:328)

      • Marymount High School Scrapbooks (muislandora:9772)

      • Marymount Newspapers (muislandora:10426)

        • DuCoeur (muislandora:10334)
        • Mariva (muislandora:10136)
        • Montage (muislandora:10427)
        • The Blue Banner (muislandora:10629)
        • The Mandala (muislandora:10535)
        • The Marymount Express (muislandora:10420)

      • Marymount University Campus Events (muislandora:964)

      • Marymount University Yearbooks (universityyearbooks:2)

      • Marymount through the Years (muislandora:90)

      • Marymount's History (islandora:MarymountsHistory)

      • RSHM Heritage (muislandora:6786)

      • Religious Sacred Heart of Mary at Marymount University (muislandora:114)

      • Student Literary Publications (muislandora:14737)

        • BlueInk (muislandora:14738)
        • Laurus Nobilis (muislandora:13315)
        • Literary Art Magazine (muislandora:13455)
        • Magnificant (muislandora:15139)
        • Showcase (muislandora:13302)
        • The Columns (muislandora:13277)

      • Study Abroad (muislandora:15842)

Moving Digital Titles

Each “object” in Marymount’s Alma Digital environment is considered a digital title with one or more attached digital representations.  At the time of migration, all content was moved into its correct second level collection. So all institutional repository content was moved into Faculty and Student Scholarship and all archival content was moved into Digital and Special Collections but not all content was then moved into its proper subcollection.  The easiest way to accomplish this is shown below:


You will begin by logging into Alma and going to Resources -> Manage Inventory -> Manage Collections


This will bring you to the top level digital collection Marymount University Digital Collections. Click on the collection name and that will then show you all second level subcollections - “Digital and Special Collections” and “Faculty and Student Scholarship” in this case. Select the subcollection you would like to start working in by once again clicking on the collection name as shown in the “Name” column..



The next screen will show you any third-level subcollections within that subcollection, but we instead want to click on the “Title List” tab to see all digital titles within this subcollection.


All titles shown must be sorted into their appropriate collection.  You can find this information by clicking on each digital title in the “Title” column.  That will show the Dublin Core record for this digital title.  


One of the Dublin Core fields is the dc:relation field. Some objects have multiple dc:relation fields but one of them should always signify the parent collection. In the title below, we see a dc:relation entry of muislandora_114.  By using the hierarchy map above, we see that muislandora:114 is the persistent identifier for “Religious Sacred Heart of Mary at Marymount University”.  So this object must be moved.  We must go back into the title list by using this back arrow.

Once you are back in the screen showing all digital titles, select the checkbox for the title you just viewed and click on “Move Selected.”

The next screen allows you to select the collection to which you’d like to add this digital title. I entered the keywords “Religious Sacred” to bring up the proper collection.  Then simply clicking on that collection will move the digital title.  From there you can move on to the next title. 

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