The LDR of the bib and holdings record needs to be indexed for reporting in Analytics at the very least as a Local Param.
We have a large withdrawal project involving thousands of books. We do not want to delete them in Alma. We want to change the location in the holdings record to Withdrawn, suppress the bib and holdings record, and change the LDR Record Status (5th position) to "d." This is a MARC standard and must be done in order to export these records later to various entities (such as the statewide library database used for ILL) so they can delete them from their copy of our database. The LDR value is what they use to indicate a bib or holding record to be deleted. We can run a job to change the holdings location to Withdrawn and suppress the holdings record, but we will have students change the LDR values manually, since there is no Alma job to change the holding or bib record LDR values. We need to be able to run a report in Analytics to find the records the students have changed (using bib and holdings modification date and Modified by parameters) to make sure they changed them correctly--but Analytics does not index the LDR values.
The following fields were added to Holding Details > Physical Items and the Bibliographic Details dimension:
Holding Details:
BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC holdings record
BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC holdings record
Bibliographic Details:
BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC bibliographic record
BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC bibliographic record
Government Publication – the government publication type
Form of Item – the form of the item
For more information please see August Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes