Chaos: Book Industry Communications - Recent Activities

The acquisitions module: Stepchild of the IOLS

“…Broader industry standards developed for electronic ordering, claiming and invoicing are known as EDI: Electronic Data Interchange. For the library-vendor-publisher relationship these standards have been developed by BISAC and SISAC (Book Industry System Advisory Committee and Serials Industry System Advisory Committee) (Paul 1995b), concurrently with developments by the American National Standards institute (ANSI), and the EDIFACT standard initiated by the UN Economic Commission for Europe. ANSI has voted to adopt the EDIFACT standard by 1997, which should lead to a single EDI standard for library purchasing throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.…”