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For decades the University of Illinois at Chicago Library relied on the Voyager integrated library system for acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, and other applications. By 2020, a wide range of stakeholders throughout the Library system had established their processes around its functionality. In the summer of2020 the Library, along with ninety other members of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, went live in the final phase of a consortial migration to the Alma Library Services Platform. The absence of a 'reporting funds' level in the ledger hierarchy in Alma threatened a fundamental premise of our long-established acquisitions processes through which Acquisitions staff translated transactions between a librarian-facing ledger and totally different University financial categories. A creative solution using Alma's 'Reporting Codes' feature was discovered after interviews with stakeholders, which prevented significant confusion throughout the Library and preserved all our processes. This case study describes the history of our acquisitions practices, the fundamental problem raised by the ledger structure in Alma as compared to Voyager, and the solution designed utilizing Alma's 'Reporting Codes' feature., The University of Illinois at Chicago is a large, urban, public, Carnegie Research 1 university headquartered in the Near West Side of Chicago, with two additional campuses throughout the state [...]

This paper surveys the English-language literature on cataloging and classification published during 2011 and 2012, covering both theory and application. A major theme of the literature centered on Resource Description [...]

E-books have become a substantial part of many academic library collections. Catalog records for each e-book title enhance discovery by library users, but cataloging individual books may be impossible when [...]

User-friendly and content-rich Web sites are indispensable for any knowledge-based organization. Web site evaluation studies point to ways to improve the efficiency and usability of Web sites. Library catalog or [...]

Web page development is, an important aspect of library practice, and evaluative studies can confirm further development and upgrades in the performance of Web pages. To date, there have been [...]

The article offers information on the activities of the American Library Association's (ALA) CaMMS Research & Publications Committee. The committee held a meeting on January 26, 2013 to review the new charge for its new members since it was recently rewritten and clearly documents all of the responsibilities of the Research and Publications Committee (RPC). A program to provide an introduction to doing research and publishing in cataloging and metadata was also discussed.