Using Alma's Brief Level Rules to Facilitate Rapid Cataloging

Streamlining copy cataloging workflows is crucial to getting materials to users promptly and preserving cataloger time for high-value work. Alma's brief level rules allow the institution to create customized rankings from 1-10 for bibliographic records depending on the presence or absence of specified metadata. NYU's central technical services office has implemented brief-level rules that assign a ranking according to NYU's minimum requirements to every bibliographic record for new books, scores, and audiovisual recordings. These rankings help non-cataloger staff across NYU and its consortium partners quickly evaluate new items to determine which can go directly to the shelf and which need attention from a cataloger. In this session, we will look at how Alma's brief-level rules work, how NYU customized its brief-level rules, and how NYU has used its rules to simplify workflows around post-receiving processing and cataloging.