Adding Call Numbers to ReCAP Items

To expedite copy cataloging, staff have been instructed that member copy without 090/050 may be used if the item is going to ReCAP. Normalization processes then add an 090 $$a prefixed with 'X' and copy this value to the 852 $$h in the holdings record. This policy/procedure went into effect in 2020. In 2023, ATT began an annual process to populate these bib records with 050s from OCLC wherever possible. The first iteration of this process went as follows. ATT will perform the task every September.

Step	Method
Identify bibs for items that have been sent to ReCAP without call number assignments	Analytics report ‘recap_needing_050’
Find matching records in OCLC using the Alma record 035 $$a	Ruby script querying the OCLC Metadata API
If an 050 is present in the corresponding OCLC records (both the classification number ($a) and the item number ($b)), add it to the matching Alma record	Ruby script
Import enhanced records into Alma sandbox and then production.	Alma 'MMS ID Overlay' import profile

Results of this first run may be reviewed in the itemized set in production ‘Add 050 total records imported_10/26/2023…’