Selecting Titles and Conducting Pre-order Searches

One of the primary functions of the Acquisitions department is the selection of library material. After you select titles from catalogs, bibliographies, library requests, and other sources, you can enter the titles you want to purchase (or that you want to consider for purchase) in Horizon.

Before you enter titles in Horizon, you should follow your library’s pre-order searching procedures to avoid unwanted duplication. (For example, you should search staff searching to make sure your library does not already own the title.) (For more information about pre-order searching, see Approving PO Lines.)

You can enter new titles as purchase requests, which can then be reviewed, and approved or rejected. If a request is approved, you can copy it to a purchase order. You can also add a title to a purchase order directly, without creating a request for it.

 


© 1998-2017 Sirsi Corporation