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An extensive listing of all batch jobs at Columbia and Cornell exists in the Batch Inventory spreadsheet including and there are links to detailed process descriptions in the Outline. One of the fundamental differences in the use of MARC records for approval receipts is that Columbia creates Purchase orders and line items as part of the load whereas Cornell loads only Bib and Holdings records. Reports of each load arrive as emails to acquisitions staff. Duplicates that are detected via ISBN matching are manually resolved by an MPS supervisor and records are merged. Frequently this requires the deletion and recreation of line items in order to delete the duplicate record. Columbia uses Voyager operators named with the Vendor Code to display in the history as the creators of the Bibliographic and Holdings records. Approval items load with the default "sho" locations. Shelf ready approvals load with locations and items, a report of item barcodes is sent to acquisitions staff who scan them as soon as possible to ensure the OPAC reads "In transit to library" rather than "Not checked out".
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