\[Initial draft approved, Dec. 3; to be updated as needed.\] Wiki Markup
Acquisitions
- establishing vendor agreements (approval/PDA profiles + outsourced cataloging).
- ordering (chiefly monographs but some mono-series. single eBooks are ordered in a cross departmental setting togetehr with e-resources)
- receipt of ordered material
- claiming missing items
- receipt of PDA (patron driven acquisition) titles
- receipt of standing order material, documents, etc.
- receipt and processing of approval titles
- receipt and maintenance of documents
- receipt of gifts
- serials check-in upon arrival (dealt not only in Acquisitions also in Serials Management Unit which is responsible for ordering and claiming serials)
- inputting preliminary records
- backlog management
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