ALMA Work Orders

Overview of work orders

A work order is an internal library request to route physical materials to a specific department for internal processing. A work order sends an item to a department (marking it as not available on the shelf), where it can be managed according to internal statuses. Departments and statuses can be configured according to a library’s local needs.

A work order type indicates the type of library process to be carried out on a resource, such as binding or cataloging. Each department in your library is assigned to handle a specific work order type.

Each work order type has a list of statuses that can be assigned to work orders of that type. For example, a work order of type "binding" could have statuses "gluing", "sewing", and so forth, while a work order of type "digitization" could have statuses "digitizing", "document delivery", and so forth.