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Acquisition number

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A unique number used by the acquisitions department of a library to identify a bibliographic item on a purchase order. In some libraries, standard codes such as the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) are used as acquisition numbers.

See also: accession number.

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