Acquisition Section

Acquisition Section is responsible for procurement of all the recommended print or e-resources for the use of study and research. The section deals with the collection development in the library.

Aims and Objectives
1. Collection enrichment by procuring different books and materials those help users in learning, research, and leisure reading.
2. Alignment with User Needs: Make sure the books and materials we choose match what users in the library want and need.
3. Quality Assurance: Make sure the books and materials we choose are accurate, useful, and trustworthy.
4. Budget Optimization: Spend money wisely to get good books and materials without going over budget.

Policies and Procedure:

Acquisition process involves several steps to ensure that the library acquires materials that meet its users' needs while managing resources efficiently.

1. Budgeting:
The section will propose the budget through library budget. The section uses the budget 'UP/PG Books'.

2. Collection Development Policy:

Book Aquisition Process:
- Acquisition section will call bi-monthly book requisition through online application form, also it accepts requisition as and when required by faculty or student. Books can be recommended by faculties, students, eminent persons those visit to library or by observing the requirement, the library staff can process the aquisition. Books other than syllabus, users can recommend or library staff can initiate the acquisition of books by observing various sources like publisher catalogue, reviews in the newspapers etc.
- The Section incharge will check for the availability of books to avoid the ducplication.
- The quotations will be called for the finilised list of books from at leat three vendors.
- Comparative statement will be prepared and placed to the approval before the authority.
- After the approval and sanction of the amount, purchase orders will rised and sent to the recommended vendor to supply of the books.
- Once the books received from the vendor, the technical process will be done in the technical section.
- The invoice is, processed for the payment to the accounts section through the sanctioning authority (HoI).

Statistical Inforamtion

TOTAL COLLECTIONS
Sl. No	Course	No. of Volumes	No. of Titles
1	BE+M.Tech	91002	21486
2	MBA	8416	4048
3	MCA	10234	2360
4	Architecture	4004	2532
5	Govt. Book Bank	3021	2613
	Total	116677	33039

Course - Wise
Last 3 Years added Book Titles, Volumes and Spent Amount

FY 2023 - 2024
Sl. No.	Course	Titles	Volumes	Expenditure
1	BE	456	111	6,73,166.00
2	Arch	93	144	1,87,403.00
3	MCA	9	133	88,973.72
4	MBA	19	89	66,100.00
	Total	577	477	10,15,642.72

FY 2022-23
Sl. No	Course	Titles	Volumes	Expenses
1	BE	43	111	1,06,359.00
2	Arch	149	137	4,51,270.00
3	MBA	8	17	26,237.00
4	MCA	0	0	0
	Total	200	265	5,83,866.00

FY 2021-22
Sl. No	Course	Titles	Volumes	Expenses
1	BE	27	159	1,37,647.00
2	Arch	120	124	3,82,688.00
3	MBA	11	64	30,685.50
4	MCA	0	0	0
	Total	158	347	5,51,020.50

Department - Wise Details
Last Year added Book Titles, Volumes and Spent Amount

Sl No	Courswise	Titles	Volumes	Expenses
1	CSE	8	56	78269.38
2	ISE	5	49	35235.85
3	ECE	4	20	12770.45
4	E&E	1	1	6865.65
5	CV	2	25	12078.00
6	ME	7	80	69764.39
7	Sci & Hum	5	10	19695.34
8	Gen	79	215	43268.00
9	Arch	93	144	187403.00
10	MCA	9	133	88973.72
11	MBA	19	89	66100.00
	Total	232	822	620423.78

KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi

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Acquisition Section