Acquisitions Department

Information and responsibility:

Activities:

The acquisition, registration, and professional processing of library materials with the aim of ensuring the comprehensive and systematic development and preservation of the national collection, and of providing access to materials to the wider public and to the Slovenian community at home and abroad:

• monitoring library and publishing output, preparing acquisition plans, and coordinating acquisitions;
• acquiring legal deposit copies of library materials and supplementing the collection through purchases, donations, and international exchange;
• managing procedures related to the acquisition of legal deposit materials;
• registering, inventorying, technically processing, and labelling materials, and coordinating location data;
• bibliographic processing of materials and metadata management;
• coordinating inventory audits of the library collection;
• deselection and deaccessioning of materials;
• ensuring access to materials in Slovenia and abroad, in particular for Slovenians living outside the Republic of Slovenia;
• collecting and analysing data on collection growth and publishing output;
• preparing professional background materials (analyses, recommendations, guidelines, instructions) within the department’s field of work and contributing to the development of sector-specific legislation and standards;
• storing, safeguarding, and protecting materials in repositories, and preparing materials for lending, digitisation, exhibitions, and other uses;
• ensuring the safe and long-term preservation of materials;
• participating in the development and establishment of the Slovenian humanities and heritage data space;
• providing educational and advisory services for publishers, libraries, and other institutions;
• participating in the development of the COBISS.SI system;
• issuing preliminary opinions regarding the export of nationally significant library materials;
• carrying out research, development, educational, exhibition, and promotional activities within the department’s field of work.