Acquisitions

In FOLIO, acquisitions includes essential functions. These functions include:

  • Creating and managing purchase orders

  • Receiving materials ordered by the library

  • Tracking and managing the payment of materials

  • Creating and managing organizations and vendors

  • Creating fund structures and managing budgets

The acquisition of library materials is governed by a set of rules and policies. These rules and policies are defined by the library and implemented in the Finance, Invoices, Orders, and Organizations areas of the FOLIO Settings app.

FOLIO community documentation for resource management can be found here.

Five College documentation: