LIBR 520 Collection Management

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LIBR 520Collection Management

Jobbers Module
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Jobbers, Vendors, Wholesalers

• 1. Who are they?
• Jobbers purchase quantities of materials from
  various publishers, then sell the copies to
  bookstores and libraries.

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What are the advantages of using a jobber?

• A. One order for 10 books rather than 10.
• B. One invoice to pay.
• C. One box to unpack.
• D. One place to claim.

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Well-Known Jobbers

• 1. Baker and Taylor
• 2. Blackwells
• 3. Brodart
• 4. John Coutts Library Services Limited
• 5. Ingram
• 6. National Book Service
• 7. Pegasus
• 8. United Library Service

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Baker Taylor

• http//www.baker-taylor.com
• Baker Taylor is a leading full-line
  distributor of books, videos and music products
  to Internet and traditional retailers and to
  library customers. We ship more than 1 million
  unique ISBNs (SKUs) annually. We maintain one of
  the largest combined in-stock book, video and
  music inventories in the United States with
  approximately 385,000 titles in inventory and
  over 1.5 million available for order.

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• http//www.blackwell.com
• Blackwell's Information Services, a division of
  Blackwell Limited, has been in the library supply
  and information delivery business for over 90
  years, serving academic, medical, corporate and
  government library markets. It has offices in
  Oxford, New York, and around the world.
  Blackwells recently merged with Swets
  Zeitlinger, the leading global subscription agent
  and information services company with a turnover
  in excess of one billion US Dollars.

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BRODART

• http/www.brodart.com
• BRODART offers libraries and schools books from
  over 20,000 publishers, and stocks its warehouse
  with over 225,000 titles and 2,000,000 books.
  Many of these books are shipped to libraries
  completely shelf-ready--fully cataloged and
  processed with borrowers' cards, spine labels and
  barcodes already in place. These additional
  services, pioneered exclusively by Brodart,
  greatly reduce a librarian's workload.

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Coutts Library Services Limited

• http//www.coutts-ls.com
• Coutts Library Services was incorporated in 1969
  in order to serve libraries worldwide. With
  warehouses and offices in Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
  Niagara Falls, Ontario and a buying
  office in the U.K., Coutts supplies any in-print
  title available to a wholesaler from the
  United States, Canada and the United
  Kingdom.

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• http//www.ingram.com
• Ingram Book Group is a leading wholesaler of
  trade books and related products. We are a
  wholesale distributor of books, audiobooks,and
  periodicals to booksellers, librarians, and
  specialty
  retailers.

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National Book Service

• http//www.nbs.com
• National Book Service is the largest Canadian
  wholesaler of books, videos, audio, CD-ROM's and
  bibliographic services serving the needs of the
  educational and public library markets for over
  twenty years. We have a Canada first policy. In
  our selection process, particular efforts are
  made to present all Canadian authored and
  published works that meet our selection criteria.

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• http//www.pegasuswholesale.com
• Pegasus Wholesale is an independent book and
  music wholesaler jointly owned by Chapters, an
  outside Canadian investor, and the company
  management. We are the vendor of record for
  Chapters retail, which includes Chapters large
  format stores, Smithbooks, and Coles. In addition
  to supplying these nationwide chains, Pegasus is
  the fulfillment centre for Chapters' two on-line
  stores, Chapters.ca and Chaptersglobe.com.

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Well-Known Canadian Jobbers

• Book Express
• North 49 Books
• John Coutts Library Services
• Library Bound Inc.
• National Book Service
• Nicholas Hoare Ltd.
• SS Books
• United Library Services
• Whiteshots Inc.

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Selecting/Evaluating a Jobber

• When selecting a jobber, one should keep several
  factors in mind
• service - a representative, toll-free numbers,
  Websites, etc.
• quality of service - ask for and check
  references, ease of handling problems
• speed of fulfillment - this includes accuracy

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Selecting/Evaluating a Jobbercontinued

• discounts and pricing
• jobbers financial viability
• jobbers ability to work with the librarys
  automation system
• special services available - free and at a cost

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Vendor-Added Services

• Acquisition assistance - searches and
  verification, for example
• Automated selection assistance programs (some
  including book reviews)
• Book rental plans
• Cataloguing and shelf-ready processing
• Electronic financial transactions beyond the
  basics

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Vendor-Added Services continued

• More than one information format
• Provision of electronic tables of contents or
  machine-readable data
• Library furniture
• Library supplies