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Title:	The relationships of the acquisition department to the library's total program
Author(s):	Stevens, Rolland E.
Subject(s):	Acquisitions (Libraries)
Abstract:	I suggest that a more fruitful approach to administrative planning is the use of an individual function, or group of related functions, as the unit of organization instead of a department with its traditional set of tasks. Several unorthodox and effective uses of library staff have been devised through the use of the function as the unit of planning. Two examples that come immediately to mind are the use of divisional librarians by Frank Lundy in subject cataloging, and the use of a professional core of bibliographers by Ralph Parker for aspects of both acquisition and cataloging.
Issue Date:	1963
Publisher:	Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Citation Info:	Stevens, R.E. (1963) The relationships of the acquisition department to the library's total program. In Goldhor, Herbert (ed) Selection and Acquisition Procedures in Medium-Sized and Large Libraries (Papers presented at an Allerton Park Institute held November 11-14, 1962): 125-137.
Series/Report:	Allerton Park Institute (9th : 1962)
Genre:	Conference Paper / Presentation
Type:	Text
Language:	English
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2142/481
ISBN:	0-87845-004-1
ISSN:	0536-4604
Publication Status:	published or submitted for publication
Date Available in IDEALS:	2007-04-03