Eric Redman, Blackwell's Book Services Virginia Scheschy, University of Nevada, Reno Collection Manager was developed by Blackwell's as a Web interface that connects librarians and Blackwell's New Titles System to allow the viewing of a library's respective profile of collection development policies and interests. Librarians may view individual titles that match their profiles. Each title in Collection Manager is annotated to indicate the status of the item in the database.
Information is available to determine why a specific approval action was taken for each new title.
The product has been enhanced to accommodate keyword searching. The concept of Collection Manager began in January of 1996, with the goal of putting library approval plan profiles online so that customers could view them and make changes online, if necessary. In preparation for the development of Collection Manager, Blackwell's examined the workflow from beginning to end. The loader profile that Collection Manager uses is based on a document supplied by Innovative that describes where the vendors should put local ordering information in the MARC record. The ability to view, open, or approve orders.