We’re also finding that distinctions between departments are becoming blurred, for example, acquisitions and cataloging. Previously, our acquisitions department handled most of the knowledge base work—licensing and ordering—while a separate metadata
cataloging unit was responsible for record management, load management and intersection with special and digital collections. But we’re moving from the print world, where processes and controls were very clear, to the e-resource world, where definitions break down because so many processes are cyclical. We’ve recently merged acquisitions and
cataloging, as the lines between them are increasingly arbitrary