Head of the Sector
Natalya Nikolaevna Melyokhina
E-mail: komp-208@mail.ru
Main Areas of Activity
The Acquisition and Scientific Processing Sector of Literature carries out the following main activities:
- systematic acquisition of the library collection with scientifically relevant and manuscript documents in accordance with the subjects of the Academy’s professional and educational programs, curricula, and research activities;
- registration of incoming and withdrawn library documents, technical processing of documents, and document cataloguing;
- organization and maintenance of the library reference and information retrieval system.
Functions
- Carries out collection development and systematically updates the thematic acquisition plan of the library collection in accordance with educational programs, curricula, and the Academy’s research areas.
- Maintains the textbook supply map for the educational process in cooperation with academic departments.
- Prepares consolidated orders for documents based on requests submitted by the Academy’s departments and divisions.
- Acquires documents using various acquisition sources.
- Maintains records of the library collection.
- Conducts cumulative, non-inventory, and individual registration of newly received publications with barcode assignment.
- Performs acceptance, bibliographic description, classification, technical processing, and registration of new acquisitions.
- Distributes newly acquired literature among the relevant structural divisions of the library.
- Monitors the fulfillment and completeness of orders.
- Conducts quarterly and annual reconciliation with the accounting department.
- Removes publications from accounting records on the basis of write-off acts.
- Maintains official and topographic catalogues of the Library and Information Center.
- Maintains the database “Non-Inventory Accounting of Educational Literature.”
Maintains the automated workstation “Acquisition Specialist.”