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- How do I request that the library purchase a book?
- Who decides if the book will be purchased or not?
- Why worry about things already owned by other USMAI libraries?
- What are priority levels? When and how should I use them?
- How do I request an item for reserves?
- How do I know when a book is in the library?
- When I send an order to Acquisitions, when will it be placed? When will the book get here?
- What are the roles of Collection Management, Serials, and Acquisitions in the ordering process? Which department do I contact with other questions?
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Every academic department has a library liaison who approves or rejects potential purchases on that department's monograph funds. Library Acquisitions will not accept any requests that have not been approved by a liaison.
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Since we have a very small book budget, we are extemely limited in the number of books we can buy. However, all UMBC faculty, staff, and students can borrow books from any of the sixteen USMAI libraries and have them delivered to the library here very quickly (with no charge to the patron or the library). By relying on this service for non-core materials, we can stretch our budget further while purchasing unique materials that aren't available for quick delivery from USMAI libraries. This substantially expands the depth and the breadth of the materials readily available for our use.
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By assigning a priority level to your orders, you can let Library Acquisitions know which orders are most important to you. This allows Acquisitions to make sound decisions when prioritizing, queuing, or backlogging orders.
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On World Wide Web orders, click the button for the appropriate level when entering your order. If you don't assign a level, your order will automatically be assigned the lowest priority level, "Collection Building".
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Do not submit orders for materials for reserves through the Web Order System. Reserve requests for books should be ordered through the reserves website at http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reserves/. If the item needs to be ordered, Library Circulation or Library Media staff will submit the orders to Acquisitions.
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Liaisons are always notified when we receive items that were ordered on their department's funds.
Other faculty in your department normally are not notified when items they requested arrive in the library. We recommend that you work out a method of disbursing this information within your department.
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Hold: The item does not go to library stacks for general use. Instead it is held at the Circulation Desk. A notice is sent to the requestor indicating that the item is now in the library and on hold for him/her. If not picked-up and checked-out within 14 days the item will be moved to the stacks for general use.
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Rush orders are always placed within one or two working days of their arrival in Acquisitions. Processing of other orders depends on the time of the year:
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