Discovery Impact: 930/973 fields - Practice for Continued Use

Status	IN PROGRESS
Owning group	E-Resources
Link (s)	930/973 fields - practice for continued use
Summary	E-Resources is looking to stop using the 930/973 fields to collocate electronic collections and instead use Electronic Collections in Alma.
Relation to Discovery	Is there a discovery impact? They want the local discovery teams to determine the patron and staff usage of the 930/973 fields in the Primo VE search and Database A-Z lists. Do staff or patrons at your campus depend on 930/973 fields to collocate and search for e-collections?
Campus Usage of 973 for e-collections	UCR: Used pre-Alma. Now uses Alma’s e-collections. No staff/patron usage. UCSF: Used pre-Alma. Now uses Alma’s e-collections. No staff/patron usage. UCB: Used pre-Alma. Queried by staff, and will be used for some print collections going forward in Alma. UCD: Used prior to SILS. No longer adding to locally licensed eResources. Still searchable for CDL resources in UCD Primo. Some staff usage. UCI: UCM: UCSD: UCSB: UCSC: CDL:
Resources for campuses that want the 973/930 to remain searchable through Primo.	DISC (Go Live) Make the 930 Field Searchable in Primo

Discussion

04/01/2022

Jessica: I think this less about if we have input on their decision and more of a heads up that they will be making this change, and if it will impact a campus, then that campus is going to need to either shift with them or make changes to keep the status quo. As the Discovery Team, we may need to create that guidance.

UCR Acquisitions used 973 pre-Alma to determine the contents of a purchased collection or check links if a subscription was cancelled. Now we use Alma’s e-collections. At this point, the information is nice to have and view as a secondary data gathering source, but it’s not often used any more for e-collections.

Michele Mizejewski: I talked to our Collections staff, and UCSF only used the MARC 973 for post-migration cleanup and setting up resources in Alma. Millennium was MARC-field driven, Alma is not. Using a locally-defined MARC field doesn’t support resource management well. If we were to use it, it’s one more part to keep in sync with Alma.