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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 
    4. Library: Seymour Library
    5. Position: Top
    6. Thumbnail: find a graphic to represent your display -- THIS IS REQUIRED.(maximum 100k, jpg or png)
    7. You can temporarily suppress from Discover while working on the display. If the collection is suppressed at this point, you will need to get a librarian with Alma cataloging privileges to unsuppress it.New collection creation screen showing the fields filled in.

Click SAVE & Continue at the top.

Click the DISCOVERY tab.

In the MANAGE DISCOVERY THUMBNAILS section upload a thumbnail for the collection. The thumbnail should be maximum 500k and jpg or png.

 

Manage Collections

If you have all of the Collection roles you can move last month's Book Display collections to be a sub-collection of the Top-Level Book Display collections. 

Note: The Subject Book Collections are not to be used for monthly books displays as these are reserved for librarian-curated permanent lists of books on particular topics.

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.