Libraries – Acquisitions
Acquisitions Librarians
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- Scoping and selection
- Resource, description and standards
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Information requirements from the national bibliography
Acquisitions librarians require national bibliographies to:
- Order publications
- Identify publishers and distributors
- Determine publication status
Descriptive metadata requirements (for offline files or printed national bibliographies):
Requirements for display of results are similar to collection development librarians i.e.; complete bibliographic records with a link to publisher data to enable accurate ordering of publications. In order to ensure currency, external links, e.g. to books-in-print or publisher sites, are useful.
Publication information should include:
- Address and contact for publisher
- Price
- Availability
- Rights
Search requirements (for online national bibliographies):
Requirements for searching are similar to cataloguers’ i.e. known items and therefore require the same typical access points:
- Title
- Author
- Standard identifiers (e.g. ISBN, ISSN, ISMN)
- Publication date