Hi Cathy,
We have used the freeware called JTacq (http://www.jtdata.com/jtacq.html)
for more than a decade to streamline Acquisitions. It has many time and
cost saving features. For example, in a matter of seconds, it will search a
list of titles against your local catalog and identify which ones you
already own. It will also do a federated search of you regular vendors,
including Amazon, Amazon Used, ABEBooks, Baker & Taylor, YBP, Ingram, etc.,
and display their price offers from least to most expensive so that you can
buy from the cheapest source. It can create MARC records to use in your
local ILS Acq. module that includes 9XX tags with order data. Or it can
pull permanent bib records from OCLC, and apply 9XX tags to those.
Specifically for Amazon new and used items, it can take batches of the
titles that you want to purchase and place them in the shopping cart with
the click of a button. We buy many used books from Amazon because JTacq
makes it so easy. The result is that our annual cost per volume, for print
academic titles, averages out to around 30% less than retail cost.
Because of JTacq we have saved hundred of hours of labor over the years and
tens of thousand of dollars in purchasing costs.It is stunning to me that
only about 100 libraries use this amazing freeware. If you want to
eliminate or minimize service charges like the one being discussed in the
recent YBP thread, there is no better way to do it than by starting to use
JTacq.
Don
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Don Butterworth
Faculty Associate / Librarian III
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterworth_at_asburyseminary.edu
(859) 858-2227
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Dear All,****
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> We do a lot of book ordering with Amazon, but I don’t see a lot of
> functionality for libraries. I’d like to know if other academic libraries
> have found ways to maximize use of Amazon for acquisitions, for example,
> using wish lists, approval notifications and so on. I do know our ILS does
> not support Edifact ordering through Amazon, but since most of our faculty
> requests include Amazon links I’d like to find a way to expedite ordering.
> ****
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> Thanks,****
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> Cathy****
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> Cathy Goodwin****
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> Head of Collection Management****
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> Kimbel Library****
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> Coastal Carolina University****
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> Conway, SC 29526****
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> 843.349.2408****
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> cgoodwin_at_coastal.edu****
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