The Accession API (also known as Ongoing Accession) is used to add item records to SCSB whenever there is a new item added to the ReCAP facility. This API is called by the GFA LAS as part of the accession workflow at their end with the customer code and item barcode. SCSB collects these requests and keeps them queued up to add them to the database through a nightly process so that performance is not affected.
Internally, SCSB uses the customer code to identify the institution and use the institution's service (ILS API) to retrieve bibliographic, holding and item information using the item barcode. If the information is not available in ILS, SCSB creates a dummy record with dummy values and marks it 'Incomplete'. Incomplete records are neither displayed as part of search results nor are they requestable. It can be viewed as part of the reports UI and modified to become complete using the Submit Collection API.
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