Continuous Orders - Standing orders
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There are three separate
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standing order purchase types for
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physical material in Alma
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, representing two distinct POL creation and receiving workflows:
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Print Book - Standing Order Purchase Type
Physical - Standing Order Monograph
and (2) Print book - Standing Order purchase typesThese two PurchasePurchase Type
These purchase types are designed for ordering material that is published from the same vendor in an irregular and unpredictable frequency, such as:
- Purchasing all the printed books by a particular author when they are published.
- A series of books which are not published on a regular basis.
- All pamphlets which a certain organization publishes.
These two purchase order types use the same workflow. The Print book - Standing Order type would be used for print books, and the Physical - Standing Order Monograph type would be used for a monograph of any other material type (such as CD, DVD,
Scoresscores, etc.).
- No inventory is created as part of the POL creation
- - a holdings record would need to be created separately in the Metadata
- Editor after creation of the POL
- Material is not
- received on the Receive New Material page, but rather through a unique workflow
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- Create or choose a bibliographic record
- Create a holdings record
- Create an item record
- and associate it with the standing order PO line
- Set a receipt date for the item in the Physical Item Editor.
- See Receiving a One time and Continuous order for more detail
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This purchase type would be best for:
- Monographic Series standing orders for which each monograph within the series is analyzed on a separate bib record.
- Each title may be published by a different author, but all are under the same series, and you are subscribed to the series. The order is linked to a suppressed bibliographic record for the series; items are not described by this bibliographic record. Each item is issued under a different title and should be cataloged separately with its own bibliographic record that is linked to the series order. Each item circulates independently.
- Blanket or membership type orders for which receipts are described on separate bib records
- A subscription to an integrating resource, such as loose-leaf law materials that are delivered and then added to an existing physical item – The materials are described by the bibliographic record of the physical item attached to the order; each one is an update to this item. You do not have to create new items for each material that is delivered, since they are not circulated independently.
Physical - Standing Order Non-
Monograph Purchase TypeThis PurchaseMonograph Purchase Type
This purchase type is designed for orders for physical items in multiple parts.
Attributes of this purchase type:
- This purchase type works in a similar fashion as the Physical Continuous
- purchase type (JK: Add link to appropriate page)
- A holdings record is created as part of the POL creation; the items are created at the point of receipt
- Material is received on the Receive New Material page.
- See Receiving a One time and Continuous order for more detail
This
Purchase type is designed for orders for physical items in multiple partsThispurchase type would be best for:
- A multi-volume monograph for which you will receive volumes at un-predicted intervals, such as encyclopedia volumes
- . The volumes are described by the bibliographic record of the encyclopedia attached to the order. You must create items for each volume, since volumes may circulate independently.