Resource Sharing Committee: The Alma Batch Inventory Tool

The CARLI Resource Sharing Committee is hosting a two-part series on different inventory tools and Alma. 

The first webinar will focus on the Alma Batch Inventory Tool, presented by Colleen Turkal and Abigail DeWeese from Principia College. This webinar will be Wednesday, May 3 from 1pm – 1:30pm

The second webinar will focus on two different libraries’ approaches to the Alma Shelf Report and the Alma Interactive Inventory Scanning Tool, presented by Stacey Haas and Tammie Busch from SIUE and Stacey Knight Davis from EIU. This webinar will be Tuesday, May 9 from 11am – 12pm.

To Register: Please register for each webinar separately. Use the "Register" link at the top of each page.
     Alma Batch Inventory Tool: May 3.
     Alma Shelf Report/Alma Interactive Inventory Scanning Tool, May 9.

The sessions were recorded, and posted to their respective documentation pages linked below.

Background- There are three inventory tools:

1. Alma has a built-in tool called the Alma Shelf Report, for which you submit a job on a file of scanned barcodes to see if items are in place, misshelved, or missing. For more information

Also, CARLI has set up two different external inventory tools that work with Alma via API:

2. The Alma Batch Inventory Tool, for which you scan barcodes into a file and then upload an Excel file of barcodes to the tool. For more information
3. The Alma Interactive Inventory Scanning Tool, for which you scan barcodes into the tool individually as you work (although you also can upload a .csv file). For more information