Serials acquisitions operations include ordering, receiving, checking in, claiming, maintaining online acquisitions data, processing invoices for payment, maintaining licensing agreements, and preparing serials for binding, and sorting library mail.
Tax Guidelines for Electronic Resources
Online publications are generally not taxed.
See: California State Board of Equalization publication number 109. URL: http://www.boe.ca.gov/formspubs/pub109/
Format Guidelines for Periodical Purchases
The Library’s format preference for journals and periodicals is, in the following order: Online, Print, Microform. If we wish to keep a title in print, we will usually bind it.
Overwhelming reasons not to bind a title may include:
-The paper is of poor quality, i.e. newsprint or paper is brittle.
-The format (size) is unwieldy, i.e., newspapers, tabloids, etc.
-Margins are so small that user would be unable to read text after binding.
-The cost of microform is very high compared to the print version.
-Illustrations and images are of central importance to the content of articles and cannot be adequately viewed or reproduced from microform (some examples might include color, photographs, maps)
-Text routinely includes notation, such as mathematical formulas, which cannot be adequately viewed in or reproduced from microform.
Written by: Marsha Shea in August of 2008.