This is a simplified overview of the ordering process. Understanding these basic steps will help you learn the tasks assigned to you.

1. Faculty and Library Liaisons submit orders for books, journals and other printed materials to Resource Services.

2. Staff or student assistants in Acquisitions sort, examine and date-stamp incoming order requests that are on paper.

3. Pre-order search: staff or student assistants search the new order requests in the Library's online catalog to verify that they are not duplicates of existing materials.  [See tabs for 3-Way Catalog Search and AC, AE, and AV ("Duplicates")]

4. Titles that have been searched in the online catalog are assigned a potential vendor.

5. The vendor's database is searched to verify that the title can be purchased from this source.

6. MARC records representing the titles to be ordered are selected and downloaded from the OCLC database to the Voyager Acquisitions Module.

7. The selected MARC records are printed.

8. An electronic order is created in the Voyager Acquisitions Module and then created and transmitted using the Vendor's database.

9. The printed MARC records and all other paperwork associated with the order are collected and filed.

10. The vendor ships the order.

11. The shipment arrives, is unpacked, and all paperwork connected with the order is retrieved and placed with the order.

12. The order for each book in the shipment is recorded as received in Voyager and an invoice for the shipment is electronically loaded into Voyager.