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Alliance Plus
Chapter 30 Alliance Plus basics
This chapter contains a description of Alliance Plus and instructions for starting
Alliance Plus. These instructions are also valid for Alliance Plus for Union.
About Alliance Plus
Alliance Plus lets you add or enhance library bibliographic records with
information from Alliance Plus Online, any Alliance Plus CD (MARC, A/V
ACCESS, Vintage, or Alliance Plus for Books in Canada), or your union catalog
database. If you have a subscription to Reading Program Recon, you can also
enhance your records with reading program information in the 526 tags. As a
result of these enhancements, you can expect an increase in your collection
circulation and in the effectiveness of searches conducted by your patrons.
Alliance Plus provides you with three methods for updating the library database:
S Autorecon: During this automated process, Alliance Plus examines the
bibliographic records in the library database and compares them to the
records on the selected Alliance Plus data source. When it finds matching
records, the application uses the information contained in the records of the
data source to enhance the library records.
S Process Misses: This manual process relies on you to examine each library
record skipped during an Autorecon. It lets you decide whether any matches
exist and what modifications are in order. We recommend that you run a
Process Misses after each Autorecon.
S Reading Program Recon: During this automated process, Alliance Plus
examines your uploaded quiz file and enhances matching bibliographic
records with 526 tags.
These methods limit the process to the bibliographic records and have no effect
on any copies associated with the records being enhanced.
You can also use an Alliance Plus data source with Cataloging to add individual
bibliographic records from the data source to the library database. For details
about using Alliance Plus databases with Cataloging, see Finding MARC
records in your collection" on page 240.
Starting Alliance Plus
Important: Only one workstation can access Alliance Plus at a time. If you
attempt to start Alliance Plus while the application is running at
another workstation, you receive a warning message.