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The current normalization process, CSU Remove 029,936,938,948 984 removes the 029, 936, 938 and 948 Marc fields from bibliographic records. The 029 is removed because it is a vendor control number and serves no function in Alma. Furthermore, the Orbis Cascade Alliance found that numerous 029 fields caused problems with record processing. The 936 is Conser/OCLC miscellaneous data, the 938 field field is vendor-specific data and the 948 is for local data. Both have no function in Alma.

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The normalizaton process, CSU Remove 029,936,938,948 984 is applied at the NZ level for Search External Resources (Worldcat) and Connexion export.

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