THE AQUISITION - REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT

Activity:
• Current and retrospective acquisition of books, periodicals, graphic, electronic and audio-visual documents

• The policy of acquisition and development is determined by:
          - the encyclopaedic profile of the library collection
          - the structure of the already existing collection
          - library users’ requests and needs
          - the necessity of keeping the equilibrium between the different kinds of documents:
                    · 89% books,
                    · 7% periodicals,
                    · 3%audio-visual documents,
                    · 0.5% electronic documents,
                    · 0.5% other documents

• The collection growth was financially supported in 63% from the state budget, 6% from the own incomes and 31% from donations. Thus, in 2005, 17,211 bibliographic units from all the domains were acquisitioned.

• The department keeps the records (primary and individually) for the current entrances
• Processes every periodicals entered in the library collection and the permanent up-dating of the Alphabetic Catalogue for Periodicals
• Deletes from the library records of the withdrawn documents
• Introduces the necessary data for listing the inventory records
• Shares out the library documents to the library departments

• Starting with 1998, the processing of the documents is made electronically (ALICE Library Soft until 2005, LIBERTY, starting with 2006)