Colleagues,
Nowadays when consumers shop online they frequently use sites like PriceGrabber, NexTag, and Shopping.com to compare prices among a host of vendors. With our economy the way it is right now doesn't it make sense to do the same thing with book purchases? Last year at the Charleston Conference I demonstrated a freeware product that does price comparisons plus a whole lot more. It is called JTacq (pronounced Jay-tack)
Click a button and it will check to see what titles are already in your database. Click another button and it will compare price offers for batches of titles from any vendor you care to name, including B&T, YBP, Emery Pratt, Blackwell, Coutts, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel. Plus it will even include offers for used titles from Amazon, ABEBooks, and Alibris. Click another button and it will list the titles by the cheapest vendor.
This is a great piece of software that will enhance your current Acquisitions Module. It annually saves us thousands of dollars in purchasing costs and hundreds of hours in personnel time. I urge you to help your library out, during these times of economic uncertainty, by giving it a try. The product is available from Jim Taylor at http://www.jtdata.com/
Best regards,
Don
Don Butterworth
Technical Services Librarian
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
(859) 858-2227
don.butterworth_at_asburyseminary.edu
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Received on Thu Oct 16 2008 - 08:32:19 EDT