Department of Acquisition and Cataloging

Head of the Department: Viktoria A. Politykina
Tel: 78-51-14, 78-51-58
E-mail: politva@lib.tsu.ru

Location: The New Building, 1st floor, Rooms 15 and 16

Department’s structure

• Document Acquisition and Registration section
• Cataloging section
• Analytical bibliographic description section
• Electronic cataloging section

The main spheres of activities

• Order and purchase of books resources for the library fund
• Subscription to periodicals and databases of electronic scientific journals based on the list of compiled documents signed jointly with the faculties
• Participation in festivals, exhibitions and fairs in order to attract patrons and stakeholders
• Working with gifts from foundations, organizations and individuals
• Acceptance of dissertations and dissertation summary abstracts
• Providing the complete information on the contents of the library fund via the catalog system
• Participation in the Research Library fund promotion by entering the periodicals from the collections of the fund of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department and Main collection Department as well as for the exhibitions’ compiling, including virtual ones
• Arrangement and maintenance of electronic and card catalog databases
• Indexing, systematization and subject documents cataloging according to the library and bibliographic BBK, UDC classifications.
• Arrangement and annual updating of the consolidated periodicals catalog of the city libraries issues (jointly with other libraries)
• Uploading the Electronic Databases with various types of documents, including preprints, unpublished editions, longreades, open access resources, etc.
• Registering of all types of documents
• Methodological support assistance, professional service advise support of specialists to raise the professional qualification of university library professionals from Western Siberia

Historic reference

Acquisitions and Cataloging Department became the structural subdivision of TSU Research Library in 1934. Its establishment was the result of joining prior separate departments of Cataloging, Alphabet Cataloging, Systematic Cataloging, and unprocessed fund.
The Processing office at the Cataloging Department has long been in charge of acquisitions.

According to the Library Order (№64  November 30, 1938) the Acquisitions Office was established as a separate structural library division. The following responsibilities were established within the new division: subscribing periodicals, purchasing literature in bookstores and from individuals, conducting correspondence with the Book Chamber, distributing new acquisitions among the Research library ‘s departments and conducting exchange of publications with different national and international academic institutions.

In order to optimize the technological cycle the Acquisition division and the Scientific Processing of Documents division were united in November 1998. The implementation of the library information system – VTLS allowed to make all the library processes automated.

The transition to ABIS Koha was carried out in April 2021.

The consolidation of  two departments allowed to increase the intensity and the quality of  work of the newly arranged structural division.

The main working achievements of the Department resulted in weekly increase of the the library funds with new research, learning, methodological editions, dissertations in the number 300-400 titles and 800-1000 samples of copies of materials on different subject areas in accordance with the requests of the TSU academic staff.