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Unit 5: Reference Sources

manager has to verify the customer company’s business objectives have been met and there are no Notes
missing parts in the acquisition that have been overlooked.
Decide whether the acquisition is complete
Based on the assessment of the contract completions and the achievement of the acquisition goal, the
decision is complete is made. This decision is generally made by the acquisition manager together
with representatives of all the organizational authorities concerned with the acquisition. When one
or more contracts are not completed or the acquisition goal is not reached this decision requires the
involvement of the customer company’s organizational authorities.

Write an acquisition report
The acquisition manager has to write an acquisition report. This report’s purpose is to record all
decisions made during the acquisition process, the level of acquisition completion, and lessons to be
learned for future acquisitions. Interesting data to be included in the acquisition report are:
• Real costs and duration versus budget and planning
• Problems and their solution
• Risks and an assessment of the used actions and strategies to mitigate them
• Required expertise
• Effective delivery plans
• Quality of the suppliers
The whole idea behind the extensive acquisition report is that an enterprise can only learn from its
faults and experiences when these are well documented available in relevant documents for future
situations.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. Reference service illustrates the meta-process model of ...... .
2. The acquisition process of library references consists of ...... sequential steps .

5.3 Criteria for Evaluation of Reference

Librarianship

Within the context of a librarian’s evaluation, librarianship shall be considered that body of work
which constitutes the primary roles for which the individual was hired. Typically, the elements
comprising librarianship for an individual will differ based on the particular position and its library
department. For a reference librarian, for instance, librarianship would normally encompass activities
in collection development, reference, instruction, and liaison support to certain academic departments.
In terms of the usual tenure evaluation criteria of teaching, scholarship, and service, librarianship
takes the place of teaching in librarians’ evaluations.
The library’s primary role is to support the teaching and research mission of the university and its
faculty. Librarians will be evaluated in this category most strongly on how their performance in
particular roles—collection development, organization of knowledge, reference, instruction, systems,
or management—contributes to effective teaching and to faculty research. While some librarians
hold positions in which contact with our users is frequent and easily seen as teaching oriented, this
does not imply that other positions cannot be evaluated for the same values or that are they any less

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