ACQUISITIONS
Chapter 2. FILE MAINTENANCE
File Maintenance - Overview
File Maintenance features and functions let you create and maintain records in your library’s database, which are required by the system to support your library’s acquisition activities.
The File Maintenance submenu provides access to the following features and functions:
- Vendor Maintenance – lets you create and maintain vendor records for each vendor from which you will acquire materials (see Vendor Maintenance for details).
- MARC Location Mapping – lets you map locations data contained in MARC records to be uploaded to a Selection List to the appropriate location/collections used by your library (see MARC Location Mapping for details).
- MARC Material Type Mapping – lets you map material type data contained in MARC records to be uploaded to a Selection List to the appropriate material types used by your library (see MARC Material Type Mapping for details).
- Letter Maintenance – lets you create and maintain text for Order Letter, Claim Letter and Cancel Letter (see Letter Maintenance for details).
- Routing Slip Management – lets you specify the content of the Routing Slips (see Routing Slip Management for details).
- Library Profiles Maintenance – lets you create and maintain a Library Profile for each branch of your library (see Library Profiles Maintenance for details).
- Foreign Currency Maintenance – lets you define and maintain currency exchange rates for foreign currency (see Foreign Currency Maintenance for details).
- Branch Distribution Lists –lets you create and maintain distribution lists for received items (see Branch Distribution Lists for details).
- Billing Address – lets you create one or more billing addresses (see Billing Address for details).
- Acquisitions Configuration – lets you specify the default fiscal year used by the Acquisitions module, and to create and maintain passwords to access the fund edit and invoice edit features (see Acquisitions Configuration for details).