Abstract:
Preparing new accession lists is a conventional current awareness service in
academic and other libraries of Sri Lanka. New accession list normally contains
a list of bibliographic records of items added to the library collection in order of
their addition. Univerity of Moratuwa, Library (UML) had a tradition of preparing
new accession lists quarterly. These list(s) were then sent to all academic
departments of University of Moratuwa and other outside libraries of interest.
However, it was noted that the time lag between the actual addition of items to
library stock and the distribution of accession list to the academics is significant.
As a result, academics did not have the opportunity of browsing or borrowing
newly added items other than their own recommendations. On the other hand,
inquiries regarding the items in the accession list were very low. Though, there is
a possibility of generating New Accession lists through the Integrated Library
System, further editing and inspection are always needed to publish a quality
document. When consider the time and resources spent to generate these lists,
UML felt printed accession lists were not cost effective.
