Do the vendors with the free export do the customization that Mike
described, so that order records are created with the correct fund code
when loaded into the ILS?
Lauren
--
Lauren Corbett
Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
336-758-6136
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:16 PM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> My perspective on this is different, perhaps because I used to work for a
> vendor (for the record, not YBP, Blackwell, or Coutts). I’m always on the
> lookout for vendor services that can make our operation a little more
> efficient, whether the service is “free” or not. While I’d love for this
> one to be a free service, I also figure I’d then be paying for it in some
> other indirect, fashion since vendors are going to cover their costs
> somewhere.
>
> In particular, I don’t object to paying this fee, or other similar fees
> from vendors, because we get something valuable in exchange. In this case,
> it’s not just short MARC records, but also very accurately encoded order
> records with fund and location codes, etc. These land in our Aleph system
> overnight attached to a short bibliographic record. If you cost this out,
> it comes in at about $20 per week -- cheap -- especially when I consider
> that this allows my staff to spend time on tasks other than manually keying
> in order records.
>
> Mike Wright
> The University of Iowa Libraries
> michael-wright_at_uiowa.edu
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [ACQNET-L] YBP Export service charge inquiry (3 responses)
>
>
> 1) -----
> From: Anne Deacon <adeacon_at_uwo.ca>
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:10:37 -0400
>
> We are with Coutts/Ingram - they do not charge any such fee - exporting
> from their site is free.
>
> Anne Deacon
> Manager Acquisitions
> Western University
>
>
> 2) -----
> From: Richard Wisneski <rlw54_at_case.edu>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:37:10 -0400
>
> Hello,
> In regards to this question, I'm also curious why libraries agree to
> this fee. We don't currently use YBP as our main vendor, in large part
> because of this fee. Does anyone know the rationale behind YBP charging
> $1000 annually to use GOBI's export?
>
> r. wisneski
>
>
> ********************
> Richard Wisneski, Ph.D.
> Team Leader, Acquisitions and Metadata
> Kelvin Smith Library
> Case Western Reserve University
> 10900 Euclid Ave.
> Cleveland, OH 44106-7151
> 216.368.6599 (w)
> rlw54_at_case.edu
> http://filer.case.edu/rlw54/
>
>
> 3) -----
> From: Patty A Cohn <cohn_at_stolaf.edu>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:52:33 -0500
>
> St. Olaf pays this fee as well.
>
> Patty Cohn
>
>
> --
> Patty Cohn
> Library Acquisitions & Marketing Associate
> & Visual Resources Curator
> St. Olaf College, 1510 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057
> 507-786-3736 or 507-786-3635
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering for those of you who use YBP as a vendor for ordering
> monographs, do you pay $1000 a year just to use GOBI Export? We recently
> received a GOBI Export subscription invoice for $1000 from YBP that came as
> shock. Our YBP Collection Development Manager explained to me that this
> is a standard fixed fee that all libraries using GOBI Export would be
> billed on an annual basis regardless of the number of books that were
> ordered using GOBI Export. Since our previous jobber, Blackwell, never
> billed us for using export function thru Collection Manager, so I was
> curious if indeed all YBP customers pay $1000 a year just to export short
> bib records from GOBI? As an extension to this question, I was also
> wondering for those of you who use a different vendor to order monographs,
> does your vendor charge you to export short bib records for creating
> POs?! I would be more than happy to summarize the responses I get if you
> are interested, just let me know.
>
> Thank you in advance for sharing your experiences!!
>
> Best,
> Dung-Lan
>
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