Search & Order Guidelines

This procedure applies to items already published that have reliable and complete bibliographic information, allowing the supervisor to assign a vendor ahead of time with reasonable confidence that we know everything necessary to order the item.

Material Included

• WorldCat Selections (special procedure)



• OCLC printouts (cataloged material, low catcat number)



• Vendor slips (print or online/email) from Yankee, Harrassowitz, Coutts, Shamansky
  
  
• Some slips from Touzot (exclude sets/series if unclear, items with corporate body headings or transliterated Arabic names)
  
  
• Catalogs(print or online/email) from the following vendors:
  
  
  • Spanish/Portuguese language: Atlantis, Books from Mexico, Mach, Fernando Garcia Cambeiro, Howard Karno, Libros Latinos, Literatura de Vientos Tropicales, Mexico Norte, Mexico Sur, Susan Bach.
    
    
  • Other langauges: Otto Harrassowitz, Michael Shamansky , Worldwide

Material Excluded

• CIP of any kind (proof slips, printouts, BNBs and ABPRs )



• Slips from other vendors than those mentioned above (due to unreliable bibliographic formatting and/or CIP issues)
  
  
• Questionable approval items
  
  
• Flyers or publisher catalogs
  
  
• Catalogs from vendors not listed above