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Unit 6: Library Automation in Acquisition

Academic achievement of a student is closely related to his/her ability to find, evaluate Notes
and use the required information according to the curriculum needs. An automated school
library with a variety of resources and user oriented services can lead them to the goals.
Questions
1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?

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6.6 Summary

Acquisition of documents is one of the basic functions associated with any library.
An acquisition subsystem performs four basic operations – selection, ordering, receiving
and accessioning of documents.

Acquisition reports are needed to document performance statistics and summaries of
work done during the acquisition process in a specified time frame.

Automation may increase successful cooperative collection development and expand the
responsibilities of collection developers.
Acquisition Department is one among them and is concerned with various activities
relating to collection development.

AD has a very crucial place in the overall organisation of a library.
Document selection is the first phase.
Proper planning of finance is basic to good acquisition work.

The Acquisition Department has to use appropriate records, registers, files, forms and
other stationery at the various stages of its operation and procedures.
The Work Diary is a desirable record to be maintained in the Acquisition Department.

The Acquisition work of a library is one of its house-keeping activities.
6.7 Keywords

Book Markets: Places where there are many retail and wholesale bookshops and publishing
houses or their local offices in and around.
Clue Page: A secret page chosen and uniformly used in all documents belonging to a library for
writing the Accession Number. This will be unnoticed by readers but could be used in identifying
the document in case of theft, etc., even if the title page has been removed.

Document: A generic name for all types of reading materials acquired in a library and includes
graphic, printed and processed items.
ISBN: The abbreviation standing for the International Standard Book Number. This is a system
of assigning unique numbers to individual publications for purposes of document identification
and delivery.

Out-of-Print Books: Books that are completely sold out and not available in the market.
Profile: An organised list of specific topics or information heads compiled out of surveying the
needs of a set of information users. The profile explains who is interested in what information,
and vice versa.

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