Brief Order Records for CDL Acquisitions

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Status	IN PROGRESS
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	14 Feb 2023
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.

Recommendation

When necessary, CDL Acquisitions will create a brief suppressed bibliographic record for ordering. Possible scenarios include:

Proscribed by CDL workflow
E-Inventory in the CZ is insufficient or unavailable at the time of order
E-Inventory requires review or augmentation
No inventory is purchased, for example Aeon

Process

When creating a brief order bib, CDL Acquisitions will use a brief record template prefaced by ACQ., which will include a 035 field of “This#record#is#not#for#cataloging” and 590 fields with “This record is for CDL Acquisitions use only with no OCLC# and suppressed. NO IZ editing.” and “Use this record for both NZ and IZ POLs” . The all-caps will be replaced with relevant information and a norm rule will be created that would remove any leftover fields.

Each record will be suppressed from discovery and set to “Don’t Publish” to Worldcat.

include screenshot of sample template

Impact

Stakeholder group	Impact
Resource Management	The network zone will include some brief bibliographic records that do not have OCLC numbers. These will be viewable in Alma but not Primo VE.
CDL Shared Collections staff	Allowing the creation of brief bib records will support CDL Acquisitions in creating order records prior to specific title/inventory information becoming available.

Action Log

Action/Point Person	Expected Completion Date	Notes
CDLNZ-PT	01/31/2023	CDLNZ Review draft decision page and send to Resource Management OST for review.
Resource Management	02/09/2023	Provide feedback to CDLNZ
CDLNZ-PT	02/14/2023	Incorporate feedback and finalize decision.
CDLNZ-PT	02/14/2023	Inform Acq and e-Resource OST