Resource Management

This procedure outlines the process for checking whether a newly received item arriving at a shelving location from a source other than Acquisitions/Metadata Services can be added to an existing fully cataloged record or if it needs to be referred to your local Tech Lead or Cataloging Unit for records work before adding to the collection. This documentation is NOT to be used for replacements for lost copies (forthcoming).

To track materials pulled from library shelves for deposit to NRLF, and to convey their temporary unavailability to users in UC Library Search.

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.

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

A multi‐volume 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.

Items that are missing are declared lost and withdrawn after multiple searches.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