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SIMILARITIES & DIFFERENCES IN RECEIVING UNITS AT COLUMBIA & CORNELL
1. Ordering Receiving of approval and receiving of firm ordered material is located order material at Columbia occurs in the Book in Hand and Order and Receiving unit (OAR) at Columbia& Receiving units in the Monographs Acquisitions Services department. Receiving is more disperse at Cornell.
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3. Columbia's Monographs Acquisitions Services (MAS) Librarians approve pending invoices in Voyager. Cornell's Receiving & Documents unit routes pending invoices to their accounting unit for approval.
4. Cornell's Receiving & Documents unit processes government documents, . Columbia does not.
5. Cornell receives and does check-in for serials, . Columbia does not.
6. Columbia's OAR unit orders and receives back-issues of serials, . Cornell does not.
7. Both Columbia and Cornell catalog (input) firm order and approval books in their respective receiving units. However, Cornell's Receiving & Documents unit inputs (fastcats) a large volume of material and Columbia's OAR unit has 1 FTE doing limited cataloging.
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