Resource Management

This Collection Services Division policy identifies which components of newly acquired resources are considered to be essential to retain, describe, and preserve. This policy also applies to the preservation of circulating collections, as well as any changes that may be made to a catalog record.

Common genre/form terms in use by the Bancroft Library.

This document provides guidance for units to submit lists of items to be withdrawn in batch by Metadata Services.

This document covers coding best practices for fields and subfields in holdings records.

The host bibliographic tool takes a list of Alma MMS IDs for host bibliographic records  and runs a job which returns a list of the MMS IDs recorded in the MARC 774 $w from each host bibliographic record. For each 774 $w, the following bibliographic fields will be included in the output:

This procedure outlines the process for importing a new WorldCat record or merging an existing WorldCat record in the Network Zone (NZ) when the OCLC number is used in a Community Zone (CZ) record.

Provides information on the form created by Library IT which allows the user to prepend notes to internal note fields in batch to items in Alma item sets.

Item records in Alma provide the basis for a wide range of operations in technical and public services, such as checking things in/out, placing requests, billing, labeling, binding, tracking of in-process materials, and compiling statistics. Every item record in Alma must be attached to a holdings record, which is attached to the bibliographic (bib) record.

This documents the policies for recording in the various fields on the Notes tab in an item record.

Item templates in Alma enable staff who have a need to create many item records with similar characteristics to prefill specific fields in those records with desired values, making the item creation process more efficient and accurate.