ACQUISITIONS AND CATALOGUING DEPARTMENT

The Acquisitions and Cataloguing Department is the part of the structure of NSU Science Library. This is the department, where the book begins its journey to the reader.

The Department is in charge of the fund acquisition, and also its rapid reflection in the catalog system. Acquisition is a set of processes of identification, selection, ordering, procurement, receipt and registration of documents corresponding to the tasks of the NSU Science Library.

The staff of the Department carries out scientifically based, complete and operational acquisition of the library fund with literature in accordance with the educational programs, plans and research topics of the faculties/institutes of NSU on the basis of publishing and bookselling information.

The Department organizes the purchase of educational, scientific, periodical, reference, fiction and electronic publications through the NSU procurement system.

Отдел организует приобретение учебной, научной, периодической, справочной, художественной литературы и электронных изданий через систему закупок НГУ.

Mostly, the library fund is completed on the basis of:

• information requests and pre-orders of departments of all faculties/institutes of NSU;

• applications of Science Library departments formed as a result of the analysis of the provision of students with educational and scientific literature.

We constantly inform teachers about new books. The priorities of the fund acquisition are educational and scientific publications.

The subject of acquisition is a document. The Acquisitions and Cataloguing Department of NSU Science Library accepts documents received by the fund, creates a primary entry in the electronic catalog (EC), and also bibliographic records for periodicals.

The Department keeps records of all incoming documents and removes them from the NSU Scientific Library fund in accordance with the established procedure.

The catalog system is the main reference and search engine of the NSU library. It includes:

• traditional card catalogs (alphabetical and systematic);

• electronic catalog.

The organization of the catalog system is the most important task of the Department.

Specialists systematize all the printed works coming to the library, as well as electronic documents on tangible media. Reconciliation and creation of bibliographic records in the EC is also carried out here.

Currently, the EC of the library includes information about the active part of the fund, information about new arrivals of Russian and foreign literature, information about dissertations, abstracts and digital copies of the full-text "Electronic Library" of the NSU Science Library.

Within the framework of a long-term partnership with the National Information and Library Center LIBNET, certified catalogers of the Department submit and borrow reference bibliographic records in the Consolidated Catalog of Libraries of Russia. This highly qualified work allowed the NSU Science Library to become part of the National Corporate Cataloging System.

Employees of the Acquisitions and Cataloguing Department conduct book exchange of NSU publications with Russian university libraries, and also constantly work with book gifts that come from various organizations and individuals.

Employees of the Acquisitions and Cataloguing Department are on duty in the library catalog hall, carry out references for readers on traditional and electronic catalogs, consult readers, clarify their orders-requirements.