Chapter 5. The Acquisitions Module

Table of Contents

Acquisitons Workflow
Brief Records
Cancel/suspend acquisitions
Claim items
Export Single Attribute List
Funds
Invoice acquisitions
Line Items
Link line items to the catalog
Load Bib Records and Items Into the Catalog
Load Catalog Record IDs
Load MARC Order Records
MARC Federated Search
Patron Requests
Purchase Orders
Receiving
Searching
Selection Lists
View/Place Orders

Before beginning to use Acquisitions, the following must be configured by an administrator:

Acquisitons Workflow

The following diagram shows how the workflow functions in Evergreen. One of the differences in this process you should notice is that when creating a selection list on the vendor site, libraries will be downloading and importing the vendor bibs and item records.