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Even though the two institutions do similar kinds of work in comparable fashion, there are significant differences in receiving workflows that are unique to each University. As was mentioned in the summary of staffing and expertise at the beginning of this report, Cornell has several workflows established for fastcating material upon receipt and Columbia has 1 FTE in the OAR unit with 35% of their responsibilities devoted to cataloging. There are also differences in what each receiving department handles. Columbia receives a significant number of DVDs and serial back issues, whereas Cornell handles government documents and receives and checks-in current serials. Librarians in MAS approve invoices in Voyager before routing on for processing in the acquisitions accounting department, whereas Cornell's unit supervisors units route pending invoices to their respective accounting department for approval in Voyager.
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