Resource Management

List of common OCLC Connexion client export errors, based on documents from CARLI.

This document concerns OCLC holdings maintenance for physical resources. Maintaining accurate institutional holdings in OCLC is important for Library staff and for our users both locally and worldwide, and it is vital for interlibrary services.

One-stop document containing all the links related to onboarding a new Library hire with Alma and UC Library Search.

Scope

This procedure outlines the process for cataloging electronic versions of oral history transcripts produced the by the Oral History Center. This is a suggested workflow. There may be other expediencies that work better for individual catalogers.

There are times when we have predicted Item records for serial issues that have not been received and need to be deleted.

A multivolume monograph (MVM) is a monograph complete, or intended to be complete, in a finite number of separate parts. The separate parts may or may not be numbered; volumes may be issued over time or all at once.

This procedure outlines how to process maintenance materials in Metadata Services, focusing on how the materials enter and leave the department.

Items that are missing are declared lost and withdrawn after multiple searches. Sometimes these items are later recovered (either returned or found in the stacks). This document describes steps to take if a selector determines that the recovered copy should be reinstated.

Explains the history of related record practices and how they may have become unlinked over the course of OPAC migrations. Also covers previous attempts to mitigate the unlinked related records problem.

These instructions cover relinking item records, as well as holdings records and the item records linked to those holdings records. The instructions don't cover all the possible variations in relinking, but they lay out one way to do the work.