[Wactclc-alma] Textbook library workflow in Alma

[Herman, Amy]

If your library has a comprehensive textbook library that includes all required textbooks each quarter, do you have any advice for the workflow in Alma for these materials?  I'm not sure it would be any different than any other course reserve item we currently process other than the significant increase in staff time to catalog,  physically process, add to the appropriate course reserves lists, etc!

I suppose technically they'd be "donations" (from an endowment) and I don't believe we currently do anything in acquisitions for donations as discussed at our Alma meeting today.  Would we need to add a note in the item record for good measure for some future purpose (analytics for example), or is the course reserve process designation enough? I assume that at some point old editions would go into the main collection and only current editions would stay in the textbook library.

Sorry if this sounds muddled!  It is definitely a bit muddled in my head!


Amy Herman
Library Faculty | Olympic College
1600 Chester Avenue | Bremerton, WA 98337
aherman at olympic.edu<mailto:aherman at olympic.edu> | 360-475-7256

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