Get the most out of automated acquisitions systems with the help of this book. Whether you are looking for information that will assist you in choosing the automated acquisitions system that will most effectively meet your library's needs, or whether you wish to resolve concerns that have developed as a result of your demanding more from the system you have now, this useful volume will prove indispensable. In Automated Acquisitions, practicing librarians share their hands-on experience with implementing various types of acquisitions systems and address planning considerations, the blurring of roles between acquisitions and cataloging, staffing implications, electronic record transmission, and specialized functions of automated acquisitions systems. These librarians reveal what they wish they knew when they began to implement their systems, as well as what went right--and wrong--along the way. Acquisitions librarians, systems librarians, and any professionals planning for an automated acquisitions system in their libraries will not want the miss the underlying excitement expressed by contributors as they reevaluate acquisitions work and redefine the role of the acquisitions librarian as a result of automated acquisitions systems.
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Contents Preface
Introduction
I. Issues to Consider
The Impact of Library Automation and Electronic Publishing: Toward Distributed Acquisitions
Triangle Research Libraries Network: Planning for Automating the Acquisitions/Serials Control Functions
Vendor Relations and Automation
II. In-House Developed Integrated Systems
Life in a Gold Fish Bowl: Or the Changing Nature of Acquisitions Work in an Integrated Online Environment
The Evolving Structure and Automation of Acquisitions
III. Notis
A Shared Acquisitions System: The Ties That Bind?
Automating Acquisitions at Auburn University
Approval Acquisitions and the Integrated Online System
IV. Innovacq
Bringing Up INNOVACQ: The Impact on the University of New Mexico General Library
In-Process Control of Order Requests for "Out of Print" and "Not Yet Published" Materials Using the INNOVACQ Acquisitions System
V. Geac
The INNOVACQ and Geac Acquisitions Systems Compared: A Large Academic Library Perspective
Ideal and Reality: Automating Acquisitions in a Time of Austerity
Going On-Line With the Geac Acquisitions System: Converting 1970's Clerical Procedures to 1980's Technology
VI. Dynix
Automated Acquisitions in an Integrated Online System
VII. OCLC
Acquisitions--The Wonders of Automation
VIII. Microcomputer Applications
Microcomputer Based Inhouse Acquisitions Program
In Pursuit of Shared Access to the CD-ROM, Dialing Books in Print Plus
Microcomputer-Based Acquisitions Systems: Where Have We Come From; Where Are We Going?
