What does an acquisitions librarian do?   In a nutshell, a mix of multilingual researching, purchasing, design of book-approval plans (automatic curriculum-driven book-buying profiles), accounting, curriculum analysis,  product research & analysis, data analysis & programming...  In many ways, the tasks are very similar to running a small international business.
            Globalization is definitely at home in library acquisitions:  E-business abounds, whether it is form of ordering from overseas vendors via web or e-mail or business-to-business library-system-driven electronic ordering from our major vendors.  Academic libraries support a wide variety of programs, thus many specialized titles are needed in support of each knowledge area represented on campus.   Especially with language studies, literatures from around the world in the original languages, regional area studies, materials can be needed from all over the world!
            
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