Adding Digital Bookplates in Alma

Background:

Locally, we modified CSU Northridge’s model of creating a local 975 field and indexing and displaying the bookplate in Primo VE. The added functionality of this model is that clicking on the bookplate image in the Primo display launches a keyword search which will gather a list of all titles with the same text.

Example: Link to a CSU Northridge record with bookplate

In our instance, we will be using the local 599 field to display the bookplate image. Library IT has provided a single bookplate template for use for collections. Further information on how legacy bookplates were added in Alma, as well as contextual information on the project can be found in the document: Retrospective: Adding Legacy Digital bookplates in Alma/UC Library Search.

Sample digital bookplate

Example UC Library Search record

MARC 599 field: 599 \\$a<span class=bookplate><b>Digital bookplate: </b>Gift of the Mario Savio / Free Speech Movement Collections Endowment<br><a href=https://berkeley.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gift%20of%20the%20Mario%20Savio%20Free%20Speech%20Movement%20Collections%20Endowment,AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&mode=advanced&offset=0 target=_blank><img src=https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/bookplates/bookplate_savio_free_endowment.jpg height= 230 width=177 alt=Gift of the Mario Savio / Free Speech Movement Collections Endowment></a></span>

The local field designation is achieved by this line in the normalization rule, after the 599 text addition:

• addSubField "599.9.LOCAL" if (not exists "599.9.LOCAL") 

Process:

1. Create a set of records to which the norm rule to add the bookplate should be applied.
2. The normalization rule was made into a normalization process (“UCB IZ add bookplate 599”) that can be run on a set of bib records. See the section “Creating Processes” on this Configuring Processes documentation page.
   1. The “UCB IZ add bookplate 599” normalization rule drools contains a clause for each of the 6 existing bookplate collections.
      1. If a new bookplate is needed, please submit a request to helpbox-library@berkeley.edu
      2. Only new text will be added to our existing bookplate templates; we cannot support custom bookplate templates at this time
      3. The drools clause can be found in the Retrospective: Adding Legacy Digital bookplates in Alma/UC Library Search page.
3. With multiple individual bookplate 599 clauses present in the same norm rule/process, staff applying the rule can comment out the clauses not needed for a particular run and uncomment the applicable clause to be applied. The ‘#’ is used in the drools norm rules as the comment marker.
4. The bookplate 599 text allows for UC Library Search users to click on the displayed bookplate image and launch a search for other titles that have the same bookplate 599 text.  

Existing bookplate collections:

• From the Alfred Hitchcock Literature and Arts Fund
• From the Raymond and Judith Lifchez Endowment
• Gift of John Leighly Geography Fund
• Gift of The Donald M. Falconer Endowment Fund
• Gift of Raymond D. Lin and Mei-Hsia Tan for the Taiwan and Chinese Diaspora Collection
• Gift of the Mario Savio / Free Speech Movement collections Endowment
• The Walter Chapin Simpson Endowment for the English Language Collections