Policy

This document outlines the local bibliographic fields and extensions that have been defined by UC Berkeley Library for use in Alma.

This document provides specific information about codes and subfields that are used in Metadata Services since July 1, 2022.

APriCoT membership

Complete list of location codes in Alma.

Items that are missing are declared lost and withdrawn after multiple searches.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.

This procedure is to be used by staff for manual withdrawal of Items only if the items are NOT missing or billed/lost and are NOT on Related records (aka Host Bibs).

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.

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.

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.

This procedure presents the steps for marking Alma bibliographic and holdings records for deletion. To delete an item record, see Deleting (Withdrawing) Item Records in Alma.