Re: Which vendors do you most often use when purchasing books & media?

Dear Kate,

Coutts should be added to the list.  They are a major book vendor for
academic libraries.  They do approval plans, firm ordering, ebooks and PDA.

Arlene Moore Sievers
Head, Acquisitions Department

Case Western Reserve University
Kelvin Smith Library
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44106

Telephone: (216) 368-3328
Fax: (216) 368-3669
Email: Arlene. Sievers_at_case.edu

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

> **
> A question to all Acquisition Librarians:  Which vendors do you most often
> use when purchasing books and media?   At SUNY Geneseo, we have been
> working on a system called GIST (the Getting It System Toolkit) to
> streamline purchase requests and the acquisitions of materials using the ILL
> request management software, ILLiad.  Within ILLiad there are web services
> called “addons”, and we have developed one called the “GIST Purchase Addon”,
> which allows you to easily purchase and shop for requested items without
> leaving the ILLiad client. You can set your default vendor which will be
> displayed once you open the tab. To price compare, you can simply choose
> from a drop down list of available vendors. The addon will run a search and
> display the results from that vendor’s website. If you have an account, it
> will log you in automatically so you can easily submit your order. At
> present, the following vendors are available to search from within the GIST
> Purchase Addon:
>
>    - Abe Books
>    - Addall
>    - Alibris
>    - Amazon
>    - Barnes and Noble
>    - Better World Books
>    - Book House
>    - Bookmooch
>    - Cassalini
>    - YBP’s GOBI
>    - Midwest Tape
>    - PaperbackSwap
>    - SwapaCD
>    - SwapaDVD
>
> We’re curious about which vendors are used most frequently and might be
> missing from this list.  Please feel free to respond off-list to
> pitcher_at_geneseo.edu  -- Thanks!
>
> --
> Kate Pitcher
> Head of Technical Services & Collection Development
> Milne Library @ SUNY Geneseo
> Ph: 585-245-5064pitcher@geneseo.eduhttp://www.geneseo.edu/~pitcher
>
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