1. Acquisitions • Provide a process for the Library to order and invoice through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange); accommodate enriched EDI data for electronic ordering, confirmation, receiving, and invoicing • Seamlessly interface with major vendors including Baker and Taylor, Brodart, Ingram, and Midwest Tape for selection using vendor carts, ordering, order confirmation, invoicing and receiving processes • Ability to keep track of vendors, funds, encumbrances, purchase orders, cancellations and expenditures 2. Cataloging • Support the following MARC 21 formats, without limitation on record length except as consistent with MARC standards: Bibliographic data, Holdings data, Authority data, and Classification data • Support RDA (Resource Description and Access), FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and will remain compatible with any future developing cataloging standards. • Support holdings statements of multi-part items as defined in ANSI/NISO Z39.71 Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items • Ability to create and delete item records • Full screen editing (instead of one tag at a time) including copy and paste and other easy editing (like OCLC Connexion) • Custom formatting for bib label and spine label printing • Support for UTF-8 (Unicode) character sets
