About Acquisitions

WorldShare Acquisitions facilitates the ordering, receiving, and processing of physical and electronic items. WorldShare Acquisitions supports the following functions:

• Discovering items to order (including adding copies of and placing holds on items)
• Ordering physical and electronic items
• Receiving and invoicing items
• Managing budgets and funds
• Managing vendors

WorldShare Acquisitions integrates with the other functions of OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS).

• Discover Items: Search for, order, and add copies of an item. Place holds on an item.
• Discover Collections: Search for, order, and add copies of an e-resource.
• Local Resources: Search for, order, and add copies of a local resource.
• Purchase Requests: Search for and request items, and view pending and approved purchase requests.
• Orders: Create, search for, or browse orders.
• Serial Issues: Track and claim missing serial issues.
• Receive and Invoice: Receive items and create invoices. Process open invoices. Download labels for received items.
• Invoices: Create and edit invoices. 
• Budgets: Create and edit budgets and funds.
• Vendors: Create and edit vendor information.
• Automated Jobs: Create and edit automated jobs for file retrieval and import.
• My Labels: Create and edit spine labels and label print lists.
• Legal Deposit Receipts: Create and manage legal deposit receipts.
• Settings. Manage institution settings, user preferences, custom fields settings, administrative settings, and exchange rates.