Resource Management

Item templates in Alma enable staff who have a need to create many item records with similar characteristics to prefill specific fields in those records with desired values, making the item creation process more efficient and accurate.

This document explains the proper way to create a new item in Alma, lists the tabs and fields available within an item record, and describes how they're used at Berkeley.

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

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

This document provides information about MARC field indexing in the Alma repository for bibliographic and holdings records.

This document lists the current and legacy MARC Organization Codes used by UC Berkeley Libraries in Alma.

MARC template used by the Bancroft Library for creating archival collection-level records in OCLC Connexion.

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.

Lists of Bibliographic, Holdings, and Item record fields from Millennium and where they moved to Alma during SILS migration

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).