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Guidelines
Procedures
Verification

University Libraries' Holdings
Is material already available, being processed, or on order? 		Cataloging Copy
Has another library created a record for the material?
online catalog standing orders worldcat or worldcat guide

Verification
Is the material available?  If so, from whom and at what cost?
publishers

books in print (1st search) northern lights scholarly societies university presses

vendors (libraries)
argentina (cuspide) australia (james bennett)
bolivia (libreria boliviana) brazil
  • sariva or siciliano
    		•
    france
  • alapage or aux amateurs de livres
    		•  germany (harrassowitz)
    india (d.k. agencies) israel (list)
    italy (casalini libri) latin america
  • latin america book store or libros latinos
    		•
    mexico (submarino) netherlands (erasmus)
    spain
  • iberbook or puvill libros
    		•  uk
  • blackwell or whsmith
    		•
    us
  • (ambassador)
  • (baker & taylor)
  • (blackwell north america)
  • (eastern)
  • (emery-pratt)
  • (rittenhouse)
    		•   

    vendors (subject specialty)
    art/photography (photo-eye) dissertations
  • dissertations abstracts
  • etd (humanities)
  • ndltd
  • proquest (formerly umi)
  • uk
  • dissertation prices
    		•
    international organizations
  • oecd
  • unesco
  • united nations
  • who
    		•  judaica (list)
    microforms
  • proquest (formerly umi)
    		•  music
  • cd-now
  • classical music index
  • pepper
    		•
    out-of-print (books on demand) standards
  • acoustical soc of america
  • ansi
  • iso
  • multi-site search
    		•
    video (index)

    book stores
    alibris
    amazon
    barnes & noble
    powell's
    multi-site search

    Acquisitions Aids
    aids
    acronyms book terms
    computer terms or internet terms currency conversion
    dictionary/thesaurus dra record conversion dates
    initial articles to ignore in titles isbn checker
    library address & building/room numbers microformat guidelines
    phone/e-mail directories
  • allpages or switchboard or who where (lycos)
    		•  roman numeral conversion
    search engines
  • dogpile or google or metacrawler
  • guide to search engine queries
    		• translation dictionaries
  • babelfish or travlang or xanadu
    		•
    video format guidelines   

    codes
    area codes country codes
    dra codes
  • location codes
  • media codes
  • supplier type
    		•  fund codes (w/faculty links)
    marc codes oclc codes
  • bibliographic formats & standards
  • participating institutions list
    		•
    zip codes

    useful sites
    ereference online books, free refdesk

    library associations
    american library association oclc tennessee library association

    Send questions/comments/suggestions to Foster Bunday

    Acquisitions Department | The University of Memphis |University Libraries
    126 Ned R. McWherter Library | Memphis, TN 38152-3250

    Phone: (901) 678-2203 | Fax: (901) 678-8218
     
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