Whenever possible we use 21 Main Street http://www.21northmain.com/
The act as a middleperson? between mom and pop vendors and libraries, by
allowing libraries to have an account with which they may use purchase
orders even when ordering from several different moms and pops. 21 Main
street sends only one invoice to you. They don't have everything all the
time, but this may cut down on your numbers.
James Fein
Acquisitions
Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
609-734-8374 tel
609-951-4515 fax
jrfein_at_ias.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: ELEANOR COOK [mailto:COOKEI_at_appstate.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:35 AM
To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu
Subject: ACQNET: "Mom & Pop" vendors
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:03:10 -0400
From: Booker Bates <BBATES_at_city.virginia-beach.va.us>
Subject: "Mom and Pop" direct vendors
We are finding more and more, that in order to satisfy our customer
requests,
we are sending single title orders directly to the publisher. In most
instances, these publishers are only used once and are not on our SWING
contract. Many do not use a credit card and may require a prepayment.
We have sent individual title orders to over 500 different publishers in the
past year. As this can be a labor intensive process, I was wondering what
other libraries did to purchase those type of items.
Currently, we are using a "test" company to research our requests and obtain
them from several different publishers. Although we may not get a discount,
we save on the staff time to research, order and process payment from one
vendor as opposed to using multiple vendors. If anyone has a process or a
contact that they use, I would love to hear from you.
Booker Bates
Acquisitions Supervisor
431-3094
fax 431-3741
bbates_at_city.virginia-beach.va.us
Received on Wed Oct 11 2000 - 12:07:49 EDT