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Columbia has 4 FTE (embed) in the Order and Receiving Unit (OAR) who place firm orders and receive firm ordered material.  One FTE in the OAR Unit is assigned 35% cataloging duties.  OAR staff possess language skills at a sufficient enough level to place orders, correspond with international vendors, and catalog some firm ordered material upon receipt.  The OAR Unit does not firm order Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Tibetan (CJKT) material as the processing of material in CJKT languages occurs in the technical services department at C.V. Starr East Asian Library.  At  At Cornell, all ordering staff (embed) also receive some material but not all staff who perform receiving also perform the ordering function. Add more???

Summarize reporting and decision-making structures at Columbia and Cornell.

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Monographs Processing Services (MPS)\ has a Divisional Director that includes a copy cataloging department which consists of three individual units, and a monographs acquisitions department (MAS) with two individual units. Decisions affecting policy and procedure within MAS are discussed between the department Head and the Order Unit Librarian and brought to the larger division as information sharing.  Policy and procedural decisions affecting the MPS Division are discussed and agreed up in consultation with the Division Director and all unit Librarians.  Changes to policy and procedure that affect other acquisitions and cataloging divisions are discussed at the Print & Electronic Resources Coordination (PERC) committee.  Fiscal and budgetary issues and possible policy and procedural changes affecting acquisitions and Collection Development are discussed at Materials Budget Group (MBG) meetings.  Issues regarding selection, collection, and budgets with regards to selectors are discussed at the Selectors Discussion Group (SDG) meetings.

Acquisitions and Automated Technical Services (AATS)\ is directed by Boaz Nadav-Manes, and consists of Copy Cataloging/Inputting, Ordering and Gifts, Receiving and Documents, and Batch Processing and Metadata Management.  Procedural decisions are made by the administrative supervisor or coordinator of that unit in consultation with the director of AATS.  Policy decisions are made by the director of AATS who consults with one or all of the appropriate unit supervisors or coordinators as needed.

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Columbia and Cornell's ordering units depend on external departments such as collection development, Information Technology (IT), and accounting which can sometimes inhibit their ordering processes.  Columbia cannot conduct business with a vendor until they have been set up by the University's Vendor Management team.  Cornell is a bit more lax with regards to doing business with new vendors.  Credit cards are strictly controlled at Columbia and only the Order Unit Librarian and Head, MAS possess credit cards for firm ordering.  Cornell's ordering staff have their own credit cards.  Both Columbia and Cornell rely on their respective collection development departments whenever an order is submitted on an overspent fund.  Columbia must ask for collection development's permission to proceed on orders over $500. 

Summarize available baseline productivity numbers in the receiving departments at Columbia and Cornell.

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