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Columbia and Cornell's receiving departments experience the same types of dependencies and limitations in day-to-day operations. Both departments are dependent on the timely review and selection of approval material by selectors in order to facilitate payment of invoices and cataloging catalog of material. Establishing EDI connections with vendors occurs in IT departments outside of the receiving units (LITO for Columbia and Batch Processing for Cornell). The loading of bibliographic records for approval material at Columbia also occurs in LITO and the Book in Hand unit must wait until the records load before it can prepare material for review. Cornell is reliant on their accounting department to approve pending invoices in Voyager. The processing of invoices for approval material is limited by internal accounting constraints at Columbia.
Summarize available baseline productivity numbers in the receiving departments at Columbia and Cornell.
Investigation: Members of the Working Group retrieved and posted available baseline productivity numbers on the 2CUL wiki and discussed details during phone discussions.
Please see attached spreadsheets reflecting receipt of approval and firm order material at Columbia, Cornell, and C.V. Starr East Asian Library for fiscal years 2010 through 2012.
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