Acquisitions

This page contains documents related to acquisitions of scholarly resources.

The Acquisitions (ACQ) Department resides in the Collection Services Division (CSD) of the UCB Library. The primary function of ACQ is to order, receive, and invoice scholarly resources regardless of myriad formats acquired by the library. 

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APriCoT functional area lead

Osman Celik (ocelik@berkeley.edu)

By jcripe on 11-04-2024

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This procedure outlines how the Collection Services Division is using the Acquisitions Technical Services work order in Alma for items that are being sent to Metadata Services for cataloging.

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This document covers the placement of regular and piggyback barcodes in print items.

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This document describes steps for electronic ordering in Alma

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This Collection Services Division policy identifies which components of newly acquired resources are considered to be essential to retain, describe, and preserve. This policy also applies to the preservation of circulating collections, as well as any changes that may be made to a catalog record.

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Item templates in Alma enable staff who have a need to create many item records with similar characteristics to prefill specific fields in those records with desired values, making the item creation process more efficient and accurate.

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One-stop document containing all the links related to onboarding a new Library hire with Alma and UC Library Search.

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This document describes ordering of one-time purchases (resources) in Alma.

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POL Jobs descriptions

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This document describes receiving of one-time purchases (resources) in Alma.

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Instructions for relinking POLs.

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