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Acquisition system details with procurement of library materials including accessioning of item received as gift. The function of acquisitision section deals with book selection, ordering & accessioning

* For book selection we collect the list of books from the department H.O.D'S of different department & collect the list from publisher, supplier & also from the student recommendation.

* After selection of books for procurement of books, orders placed to the supplier with specified terms and conditions like discount & rate of conversation in case of foreign books &period of supplying books.

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Receives books in the library from the supplier along with bills in triplicate form.

* When books are received the bills are checked with the order list and the books are tallied with the bills as well as the order list and their edition & ISBN no are verified. If there is any discrepancy (damage, page missing or related to edition) it is noted in the register for further action.

* After checking the books, the prices of different books in the bills are tallied with publisher's & supplier's catalogue or their printed prices .If the price charged is more than the published one, we asked the supplier for supplying the documentary proof in support in support of the price charged.

* The accessioning has to perform two set of activities i.e. accessioning or taking in to stock of all acquired document and passing the bills for payment.

* Record of particulars of books maintained in the accession register, and each book allocate a accession number & details of the book.

* The book in the register entered in the same order in which books are listed in the bills and consecutive numbers are allotted to the books as per the bills recording of accession no put on the bills.

* The payment of bills will be made after the books have been received and found to have been correctly supplied.

* Then the bills are sent to Librarian for further processing

* The accession stamp is put on the title page, verso of the title page, lastpage & spine containing logo of ITER CENTRAL LIBRARY, Accession no. & date.

* After accessioning of books the Technical Processing of books are done i.e. classification, cataloguing & Bar-coding.

* In Libsys 4.0 OPAC module used for searching the document according to various field (i.e. author, title, Accession no., publisher & key word)
 
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