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Summary: This page contains gift ordering and receiving procedures for acquisitions staff.

• Acquisitions maintains a gifts review shelf, where incoming gifts are placed for Bibliographer review. 
• Bibliographers complete a streamer indicating whether or not they wish to add the title to the collection. 
• Materials are then transferred to the appropriate Gift shelf (Shelf 2 for unwanted items or Shelf 3 for materials selected for inclusion). 
• Collections retrieves all Shelf 3 materials for further review, and returns materials to be cataloged for the collection to Shelf 4. 
• Acquisitions staff then tattletapes Shelf 4 materials and transfers them to the Bib/Order shelves in Acquisitions. 
• Brief bib .
• Recent unwanted materials are checked by Bibliographic Support for any faculty authors; if found, they will be pulled for review.  Unwanted materials then gets transferred to the Salvage trucks.
• Acquisitions staff will tattle-tape wanted materials as appropriate.
• Bib and order records are then created in Sierra and materials are transferred to the appropriate cataloging workflow.

Beard Collection materials

• Material destined for the Beard Collection in Turfgrass are cataloged and processed in Copy Cataloging.
• Transfer these materials to the Beard shelf in Copy Cataloging.
• These materials must not be stamped or written in.
• They will need a barcode. 
• Catalogers will send the call number along with the book on an attached note. See also: Beard Collection cataloging.

Bib/order record procedure
Gifts copy cataloging procedure