My institution has a setup where when we deliver a submission through ETD Admin, it also sends the work, and some metadata, to ExLibris Esploro. Unfortunately, the info it sends still needs a lot of work in Esploro, especially for those of us who make MARC records for the submissions.

Obviously, there will always be issues, because Esploro's set up isn't perfect. But if there were a few internal notes fields for Administrators--ones we hopefully could map to some Esploro fields--that'd be helpful. Being able to export those fields in reports would be great too.

FTR, the fields that come to mind right off are page numbers (page numbering in MARC is more detailed than just the number of PDF pages), illustration info (not currently addressed at all), and subject headings (for anyone who uses a controlled vocabulary based off the student-supplied keywords). I suggested in a separate post that we have separate fields for title and subtitle, and it'd be great if this could import into Esploro as well. And I'm sure other Esploro users can add to this.

[Incidentally, Esploro users, I wrote a MARCedit script that can change Esploro's output into a decent MARC record, pls LMK if you're interested!]