[Wactclc-alma] Has anyone used the Purdue Shelf Inventory API?

[Stephanie Levesen]

I went to a session at ELUNA that dealt with inventorying the collection.  It might be similar to George's procedure because the college that presented used an Excel spreadsheet.

I downloaded the session's powerpoint that goes through what they did and also has procedures/process at the end of it.  I've attached it to this email for you to take a look in case you're interested.

Thanks,
Stephanie

Stephanie Levesen
Periodicals/ILLs/Circulation
Norwood Cole Library
Skagit Valley College
2405 E College Way
Mount Vernon, WA  98273

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From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Guidry, Wade
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Good question, Laura.

I'm not familiar with that Purdue code, but I'll take a look, and see if it's something I could set up as a consortial tool.

Meanwhile, if I'm not mistaken, George at Edmonds has developed an Excel only approach to doing something similar (particularly, wrt identifying mishelved items).

Maybe on tomorrow's 10am call, if George is amenable and available, he can describe Edmonds's current approach.




Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Has anyone used the Purdue Shelf Inventory API?

We are thinking of doing a collection inventory this summer.

We have checked out the Alma shelf list procedure - Managing Physical Item Inventory Using Shelf Reporting - discussed here:  https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/050Inventory/040Managing_Physical_Resources  It works for most of our collections, but it's not lovely.

But what we'd really like to use is the Purdue API, discussed here: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/Shelf-Inventory-using-Alma-APIs

And we are wondering if anyone has tried this out in our environment, and if so, how hard was it to set up, and how did it work?  (And if you set it up and have a procedure, we'd love to see it.)

Thanks,

Laura Staley
Media Librarian
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