[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]- Textbook library workflow in Alma

[Elena Bianco]

Hi Amy:


The only reason we add a statistical note of "Gift" to our items is because our director wants a count of those every year.  You might add that if you want to differentiate these Reserve items to keep track of what's coming in from that Endowment.


The fact that you got that endowment is really cool, btw!


Elena


Elena Bianco

Systems & Technical Services Librarian

Skagit Valley College Library

2405 E. College Way

Mount Vernon, WA 98273

(360) 416-7624




________________________________
From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> on behalf of Herman, Amy <aherman at olympic.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:12 PM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [EXTERNAL*]-[Wactclc-alma] Textbook library workflow in Alma


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



[alma signature]





This email is not from a Skagit Valley College email address. As such, the SVC IT Department cannot ensure its safety. Please use proper judgement and caution when opening attachments, clicking on links, or responding to this email..
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ctc.edu/pipermail/wactclc-alma_lists.ctc.edu/attachments/20190806/91f0daa7/attachment-0002.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 7655 bytes
Desc: image003.png
URL: <http://lists.ctc.edu/pipermail/wactclc-alma_lists.ctc.edu/attachments/20190806/91f0daa7/attachment-0002.png>