Acquisitions
What does it take to be an acquisitions librarian?
Acquisitions knowledge, skills and experience
- Experience in negotiation and communication; knowledge and understanding of the negotiation process
- Knowledge and experience in building relationships with suppliers, accounts departments, colleagues, IT, reader services ...
- Knowledge and understanding of the complex Library supply milieu and how to use suppliers for what they do best; monitoring, evaluating suppliers; providing feedback to suppliers
- The capacity to prepare budgets and track expenditure; to read and understand system outputs; to read a balance sheet; to prepare reports
- Knowledge and understanding of the bibliographic utility environment and how this can be used to support acquisitions workflows
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of library management systems
- Understanding of the licensing and copyright environment
- Understanding of selection / collection development issues and options
- Being an effective manager of time, money, staffing resources
Jerelynn Brown
Manager, Collection Services
State Library of New South Wales
5 September 2005
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