ABSTRACT
Serials acquisitions work has been utterly transformed in the past seven years by the advent of the World Wide Web. The issues acquisitions librarians face, the work they do, and the skills required to do it-all have shifted focus. We work in an environment with pricing models that require teams to analyze them, licenses that require legal expertise to evaluate and negotiate, and products whose massive, fluctuating content challenges our ability to provide information about what is being purchased and appropriate, accurate access from our catalogs. We work in an environment in which the very definitions of "serial" and "monograph" have become outdated at best, arbitrary at worst; an environment in which assumptions must be challenged and challenged again. It is an interesting time to be buying library materials.
