Re: Stretching your Acquistions budget

Forrest,

 

As a long standing user of the firm you represent I agree with the
consolidation aspect of your post but....if there is concern by any
vendor (not just you) about an add-on/freeware that compares prices the
answer is simple, beat your competition by having the lowest price.
Especially with the way things are now economically. 

 

Thanks! 

 

Chuck Guarria 

Chair, Library Department

Assistant Professor

Long Island University 

Brooklyn Campus Library

Acquisitions Department

One University Plaza

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Ph: (718) 780-4181

Fax (718) 780-4027

 

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Don,

 

    While I understand and respect your desire to stretch you
acquisitions budget, I cannot imagine that shopping each title
"saves...hundreds of hours in personnel time."    While, I suppose, you
might find some cheaper individual title prices via your method, for all
but the smallest of libraries, vendor consolidation is the most
efficient use of staff time because of the obvious advantages of
consistent work flow in invoicing and customer service.  

 

      Add to this the negotiating strength a library has by
consolidating and you might find you are saving less than you think.

  

    Cheers!

    

    Forrest Link

    Blackwell

    Regional Sales Manger, Northeast

 

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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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