Metadata Services (MdS)

This procedure outlines the process for cataloging gift materials in Metadata Services.

This procedure outlines the process for sending physical materials to Metadata Services for cataloging or record maintenance.

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.

This procedure outlines the process for cataloging monographic series in Metadata Services after the migration to Alma.

This document covers the placement of regular and piggyback barcodes in print items.

This document outlines the local 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.

This procedure outlines the process for cataloging items that are in the Acquisitions Technical Services work order for MAIN Acquisitions Department and have been requested by a patron or library employee.

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.

This procedure outlines how the Collection Services Division is using the Acquisitions Technical Services work order in Alma for items that are being sent to Metadata Services for cataloging.