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Description

CDL Acquisitions needs the ability to create brief bibs in the network zone in order to create orders for consortial resources to account for various scenarios.

Decision summary

CDL Acquisitions will create a brief bibliographic record for ordering when appropriate.

Owning group

CDLNZ-PT

Approver

CDLNZ-PT, Resource Management OST

Consulted

Resource Management OST

Informed

Acquisitions OST, E-Resources OST

Decision-making process

CDLNZ-PT will provide sample record for Resource Management to review and approve.

Target decision date

Date decided

Background

Excluding a few exceptions, Resource Management requires all NZ bibliographic records to include OCLC numbers. It is common practice at the institutional zone level to create brief bib records for use in ordering. However, they are not shared with the network zone per policy. Because CDL Acquisitions works exclusively in the network zone, any brief bib records they create for orders must be in the network zone. Requiring CDL Acquisitions to wait for full bibliographic records or network zone inventory could frequently delay creating orders in Alma. The lack of timely order records would impact CDL Shared Collections' financial reports to campuses.

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