Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Charleston Library Conference Streamlining and Advancing Collection Development With GOBI: Bringing Your Collection Into the 21st Century Christa E. Poparad College of Charleston,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston Part of the Library and Information Science Commons An indexed, print copy of the Proceedings is also available for purchase at: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/charleston. You may also be interested in the new series, Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences. Find out more at: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/charleston-insights-library-archival- and-information-sciences. Christa E. Poparad, Lindsay H. Barnett, and Sarah Hoke, "Streamlining and Advancing Collection Development With GOBI: Bringing Your Collection Into the 21st Century" (2014). Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284315635 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact
[email protected] for additional information. Streamlining and Advancing Collection Development With GOBI: Bringing Your Collection Into the 21st Century Christa E. Poparad, College of Charleston Lindsay H. Barnett, College of Charleston Sarah Hoke, YBP Library Services Abstract Based on a desire to transition from a paper‐based acquisitions system to a completely online system, College of Charleston Libraries have used the features in YBP Library Services' GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information) to streamline firm order selections, to expedite and make more transparent the firm order process, and to advance our collection development efforts.