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Alma Resource Management

Working with the Metadata Editor in the Institution and Network Zones. Includes indication and normalization rules.

Deleting/Withdrawing Item Records

Deleting item records in Alma is known as withdrawing. Item Records should be deleted in compliance with MSP-50.

Item records can be withdrawn:

Individually
Multiple item records using the "Withdraw Items" job&

Deleting/Withdrawing Items

Deleting/Withdrawing Multiple Items

SLS Videos

Metadata Standards Policy: Deleting, Withdrawing, Suppressing in the Institution Zone
Review of the policy, implications, and tasks related to MSP-50, Policy on Deleting, Withdrawing, and Suppressing Records in Alma, by Maggie McGee. (2019/07/03)

Ex Libris Documentation

Deleting Physical Items (Withdrawing)