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Blackwell Collection Manager™ is an online management system that streamlines libraries’ collection development and acquisition processes. Collection Manager provides you with access to a database of more than three million bibliographic records, representing the top scholarly and academic titles in the world. Below are some of the features you’ll enjoy as a user of Collection Manager.
This new feature allows you to review title lists, such as current Blackwell Special Offers, our top-selling titles, and core titles in a given subject. We also feature literary prize and award winners, books reviewed by New York Times Book Review, Science Magazine and other sources. We continually add new lists and welcome your suggestions for more. Selection Lists enable you to review these titles from within Collection Manager, view your own order and approval activity, and easily request, order, or export titles within your normal workflow.
You can search directly for titles in Collection Manager using either the key numeric criteria, such as ISBN or LCCN or using keyword searching by title, author, publisher and series title. It is also possible to further enhance your search with Boolean operators. A keyword search by table of contents chapter titles, chapter authors, author affiliations and book jackets can dramatically increase the number of titles retrieved.
For each title, you have access to complete bibliographic information, including series title, publication status, original and current list price, publisher and distributor. You may also examine subjects and non-subject descriptors assigned to the title when processed for approval service. Actions taken on behalf of your library are displayed, as well as approval actions taken by other libraries.
Faculty and library bibliographers who select new titles can browse through new scholarly titles published in their specific subject areas by Blackwell subjects or Library of Congress and National Library of Medicine classifications. Subject bibliographies can be created by setting date and activity criteria.
Selectors can examine the details of their library subject profiles and browse through new titles that match. The displays are clear and changes to the profiles are available promptly online after being applied.
Analyze a profile’s effectiveness by examining the information that prompted an approval action taken for your library. Selectors can see exactly which subprofile, subject, publisher or non-subject parameter caused a book or a form to be sent or blocked.
Faculty and library staff who selects new titles can create online requests for any title in Collection Manager, adding fund, notes and other order information. Titles can also be put on hold for later review. Department liaisons responsible for reviewing requests prior to ordering can approve or reject requests entered by others. Orders and requests already placed are evident system-wide for informed decision-making.
Collection Manager offers an Editions link, which leads to a display of available, alternative formats or editions. The link displays the bibliographic information, price, publication status, and any requests or orders for the library for each edition. Having this information at hand can help avoid duplication of orders between alternative editions and formats.
You can examine full tables of contents, including author affiliations and book summaries from dust jackets for titles published after July 1998. A keyword search using the tables of contents and limiting the search specifically to table of contents chapter titles, table of contents chapter authors, author affiliations, and book jackets, can offer wider access to titles than a title search.
Titles can be requested, ordered, or exported in two ways: individually, by taking an action on a single title, or in a batch by tagging groups of titles. Using the order link on a title can simplify the process to two clicks of a mouse. In cases where a larger number of titles needs to be processed with the same order information, the batch method is an efficient way to apply an action and corresponding order information to all tagged titles.
Collection Manager can be used to enter orders directly in Blackwell system and to review the status of book orders—regardless of the method used to enter the orders. Approval books, standing orders, and firm orders are all displayed in Collection Manager. Ordering online in Collection Manager offers precise ordering of correct editions. Orders from Collection Manager are processed and updated with current status daily.
MaRC records can be exported from Collection Manager at any point in a library workflow. At point of selection (without placing orders in Collection Manager) MaRC records can be loaded into the local library system to create orders. At point of order (after placing orders in Collection Manager) MaRC records can be loaded as on-order records. There is no charge to export this brief MaRC order record from Collection Manager.
Online documentation includes a manual and strategically placed links throughout to provide help in using Collection Manager. The manual and reference sheets are also available in PDF format so that users may download or print them locally. Reference sheets are available for our Collection Manager icons, Acquisition features, and Collection Development and Approval Management features.
The library has full control over access and authority to use Collection Manager at each institution. The local Account Administrator designated by the library can set up unlimited user ids/passwords and can grant access to specific features for each individual.
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