Alma Fulfillment
Fulfillment includes areas related to circulation, patrons, pick lists, resource sharing, course reserves, and fines and fees..
Before You Start
- Introduction to Alma
- Searching and Sets
Ex Libris Training & Documentation
Introduction to the Alma User Interface
Alma Essentials: Orientation, Navigation and Searching
Add items to look out for here
Fulfillment-related Searching in Alma
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Learn More About Alma Fulfillment
Harvard Staff Documentation
Ex Libris Training & Documentation
- ExLibris online: Physical Item and Move Requests
- Jennifer: Items - Differences from Aleph
- Jennifer: Item Statuses, Process Types, and Fields
Terminology
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Prerequisite: Circulation #1. (This is effectively the Circulation #2 class)
First Pass. Left to do here:
- go through Fulfillment documentation to see if anything there is not yet reflected in class 1 or 2
- find, request or create documentation for gaps (noted in red)
- clean up for accuracy
- add any necessary screen shots?
Resource Sharing
Borrow Direct
Not yet configured
Interlibrary Loan
Not yet configured
Work Orders
Preservation Review
With item in hand that needs conservation care, scan barcode in physical item search to retrieve item record
Click on ellipses (the "More Actions" button?) and select Work Order
Process type - Preservation workflow
Managing department - Collections Care (Widener)* there will be a separate managing department for each unit that does not fall under Widener collections care (not yet configured)
Ordered-Received (625 fulfillment workflow)
FUWG documentation reads: Need to work with ASWG
Process Pull/Pick list
Notes: This list updates in real time and can be printed at any time. It could even be printed multiple times a day if desired. A report with all items can be printed or slips can be printed individually. The list can also be exported to excel.
- From the main Fulfillment menu, navigate to "Pick from shelf"
- Choose "Print Slip Report"
- The list can be sent to a specific user or printer or downloaded as a file.
- Retrieve items from the list
- From the main Fulfillment menu choose "Return items".
- Scan in barcode of item(s) in hand
- For NOS/missing items, follow steps below
- Proceed according to local workflows to transfer materials or place on hold shelves
Pick List Items Not on Shelf/Missing
- After checking stacks and item(s) are not on shelf.
- Navigate to pick from shelf processing and locate the request/title.
- Mark item as missing. You will be prompted that it will mark the entire holding as missing - this will only mark the items at the current location as missing, not all other Harvard libraries.
- This will move the request to next available library.
- Best practice is not to use skip location - you would then need to go back and mark the item as missing. You would use skip location to then create a work order (for example if an item needs preservation work and is not actually missing).
- As soon as you create a work order for an item, that item will not be available.
Process Incoming Materials from Bins
Red or Green bins. Need documentation (none yet)
Clear Hold Shelf
This last section needs rework: can we edit to produce a step-by-step flow?
Note: Fulfillment group asked peers best practice of workflow from start to finish, as there are a number of ways to process these – waiting for responses.
- some libraries do this visually, by looking at the date on the hold slip
- some libraries do this using reports
Alma sorts items into 4 tabs / next steps
Reshelve / Send to Circulation Desk / Send to Library / Activate Next
This is the explanation of the 4 tabs from Ex Libris:
Reshelve - Displays all expired requests for items belonging to the current circulation desk and for which there is no other request in the queue.
Send to Circulation Desk - Lists all requests for items belonging to a different circulation desk in the same library or that are requested for pickup at another desk within the same library.
Send to Library - Lists all requests for items belonging to a different library or that are requested for pickup at another library.
Activate Next - Activates the next request in the queue, which cancels the first request and makes the item available to the next requester.
- Items can be selected individually to be moved to their next step in their workflow.
- For the sake of accuracy it is probably better to only check books in this screen that are in hand.