Status of new items ingested into Alma

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I believe a college would need to establish process types and work orders to do this. In Alma:

• Process types are used when an item is undergoing some kind of library processing or circulation activity.
  

• Work orders: staff-initiated requests for internal processing of physical items. They replace the function of pseudopatrons in Aleph, as well as some of the Aleph item processing statuses. When an item record needs to undergo some kind of library processing (e.g. Shelf Prep) a work order is used.
  

• Work Order Types: these represent workflows such as Technical Services, Preservation, Digitization
  

• Work Order Statuses: these represent phases within a Work Order Type.  
  

• Work Order Departments: these are the physical locations where the work occurs. Usually these are associated with a library, though some are institutional level departments to which all libraries send materials.