Alma - Blacklight

Alma publishes record changes to Blacklight every 6 hours using the 'Incremental Publishing' publishing profile. This includes new records, changed records, and deleted records.

Schedule

4 AM Princeton time

10 AM Princeton time

4 PM Princeton time

10 PM Princeton time

Criteria For Export

Alma Set 'All Library Holdings': All MMS IDs greater than 0. Suppressed holdings are excluded from the publishing job. Suppressed bibliographic records are filtered out in the indexing process for Blacklight.

Additional Processing

The following fields are added to the bibliographic record from physical holdings:

  • 852
  • 866
  • 867
  • 868

For each holding, attached items are added to the bibliographic record. There is one 876 field per item. Item information is mapped to various subfields.

Field TagSubfieldDescription
876aItem ID
876tCopy ID
876p

Barcode

876jItem Status
8763Item Description (e.g., vol. 1)
876xProcess Type (e.g., Missing, In Process)
876yCurrent Library
876zCurrent Location
876dItem Create Date
8760Holding ID