Working with related records (boundwiths)

Working with related records (boundwiths)

Examples

Ex Libris documentation

Teams convos

Tips / miscellaneous

  • It was very difficult in Aleph to determine what records were parents because they generally did not have 774 / parent MARC tags

  • Records that involve Law can be super super messy from the DUL perspective- Law has a collection called “Unclassified pamphlets” where a lot of these are - Jessica Janecki has a lot of experience with these

  • BW connection information is generally in the 773 (related records)

    • The relation type for the records in Alma will display as CONTAINS/PART OF

  • There is a linked records scheduled job that has to be running in order to properly link boundwiths together - called MMS - Build Record Relations

    • When testing on the sandbox, you must remember to run this job manually since it will not run automatically

 

OAI-PMH publishing

  • OAI-PMH will publish item information from the parent if the 773 is part of the bib record and has correct linking info (e.g., an MMSID)

  • Item enrichment on the child record will be incomplete if the parent is not republished when the child is republished (or has not been republished recently - it’s not clear how the timing on this exactly works. We saw examples in testing in September 2025 where child records would have 940 fields without the 940$b and the issue is that the parent record had not been republished / published in several months. We republished the parent records in those cases, and that made the 940$b start to appear as expected.