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Creating Book Displays and Alma Collections

This guide will show you how to create a book display and a Collection in Alma.

Create a New Collection

Go to Resources > Manage Inventory > Manage Collections

All of our Alma Collections appear in a list table, in the order they will display on the Screen.

  1. Click on "Add Top-Level Collection" to create a new collection. If you don't have a role that would allow you to do that, talk to a librarian who does and they can either create the collection for you, or find out if you can have that role.
  2. Fill out the required information:
    1. Title
    2. Name
    3. Description (optional but recommended)
    4. Position: Top
    5. Thumbnail: Recommend you find a graphic to represent your display
    6. You can temporarily suppress from Discover while working on the display, if you like.New collection creation screen showing the fields filled in.

Manage Collections

If you have all of the Collection roles you can move last month's Display Collections into one of the Book Display Top-Level Collections

The two Book Display Collections are:

1. Subject Book Collections

2. Book Displays

We want to keep the first spot reserved for Current Book Displays. There can be more than one current Display, so we may also need to use the 2nd slot.