By virtue of working mostly with the development sector / non-governmental organisations, I had to deal with very off-beat library systems, far from the conventional methods we follow as library professionals. My experience as far as accessioning resources is concerned ... goes like this : NGOs usually are not focusing on the TOTAL number .. they prefer recording the number of resources on *particular topics/issues*. For instance, number of documents (all incl .. books, reports, unpublished monographs, audio, video and digital resources, journal articles, conference papers, photographs, posters, etc) on *major themes* .. gender issues, child labour, environmental issues, non-formal education, community health, crimes against women and children, human rights violations.. etc etc So, the accessioning process will be represented by alpha-numeric .. alphabet for the theme or topic and the number inserted in the order of resources arriving. A critical situation arises when a particular resource covers multiple themes or topics.. In such situations .. the program persons involved or subject experts take a call and do not encourage the librarians' methodology. Usually, the controversial resource will have the Acc No based on the greater topic coverage and will have the physical placement accordingly. In the beginning when I had to work this way, I found it very illogical, haphazard and unsystematic. But in later years while learning ontological approaches towards managing interdisciplinary knowledge, I developed a kind of interest towards this kind of accessioning. This system appears more of indexing than accessioning. But, at the end of the day, the purpose would be served... any resource however old it may be .. could be retrieved much quickly and easily as compared to large conventional libraries I worked with. As far as *physical* accession registers in this process are concerned, there would be as many as the number of major themes or topics. Usually not more than 10. The preference however is towards maintaining digital online accession records. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Sunil MV <sunilmysore@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Professionals Friends,

Greetings from Mysuru!

This is in need of clarification pertaining to ‘Accession Register’ the core purchase record for any library.

As you are aware, we can see 3 types of accession record - One Register for One Library; Separate Register for each of the Information Type; Individual register for different information type and acquired process – if you have any other type please inform.

Further, requesting professional friends to share observations from the Auditors (both internal and external auditors) pertaining to ‘Accession Register’ maintained in your library.

Your views, ideas, comments, suggestions, will surely help us.

With regards, --

Dr. Sunil M.V. Librarian Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road, Siddharthanagar Post, Mysore - 570 011, INDIA Mobile: 99864 39832 | Telephone: 0821-2429722 Extn: 3006

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