Setting Up Online and Local ISBN Searching
You can set up Acquisitions to search online vendors and local catalogs for titles by ISBN during the creation of a purchase order. An online vendor search helps library staff find a title’s availability and pricing before they add the title to a purchase order. A local catalog search can let library staff see if your library already has the item or if it is already on order. If Horizon finds the title in either the online vendor’s listing or your local catalog, staff can automatically enter bibliographic information for the item in the PO line. You can choose to set up either online vendor searching, local catalog searching, or both.
If you set up both local and online ISBN searching, Horizon does both searches at the same time. Horizon then reports whether it finds title information on the local database or on the vendor’s web site, or both. If staff chooses to automatically enter bibliographic information, Horizon uses the local catalog’s bibliographic information, if any, before it imports bibliographic information from the vendor.
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