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Collection Development Functions

Discovery and ordering workflows are straight-forward in Collection Manager. Using basic or advanced search criteria, you can initiate a search for particular book or a group of books by title, author, ISBN, publisher, readership level, approval descriptor, LC or Dewey classification, format, edition, etc. After your search has yielded results, you can modify your search criteria or "search within results" to narrow down the number of titles captured. Multi-item searches allow you to load a virtually limitless list of ISBN into a single search to obtain all the records you want in one easy step.

Using FRBR guidelines, each title will be displayed in a work family: a master bibliographic record with subsidiary data attached identifying all the variations in-which the title comes:

No longer will you have to wade through multiple records to find the version of a title you are seeking. You will be able to click on the version you want, add pertinent order details, such as fund code, and forward to a bookshelf or to Acquisitions. The process is seamless and simple.

Coordination of effort is or crucial importance these days, both within libraries and among libraries in consortia. Collection Manager provides a variety of options for sharing data: with library colleagues, key campus stakeholders, or between institutions. As a Collection Manager user, you will be able to set up your own User Groups of defined internal colleagues, and external contacts, with whom you want to share search and order information.

In the consortial environment, you can use other tools within Collection Manager to coordinate your efforts with outside institutions. By identifying Institution Groups, you can facilitate cooperative collection development between libraries, with each participating institution able to see and share data and order records online. Where knowing what other libraries are purchasing will help your decision-making, you will have access to Peer Comparison tools to see what like-institutions are collecting. We can also show you overall Blackwell customer activity for each title you examine.

Information sharing is at the heart of cooperative collection development, and there is no better tool for managing that coordination than Collection Manager.

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Book Reviews in Collection Manager!

CHOICE, Library Journal, and Publisher’s Weekly

We are pleased to announce the beginning of a program that brings reviews, into Collection Manager. We begin the program in early October with three review sources, CHOICE, Library Journal, and Publisher’s Weekly but will add others over the next months and years.

Learn more by reviewing our Q&A.