Forward:Outsourcing Library Technical Services

[Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>]

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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996
Subject: Outsourcing Library Technical Services
From: mchelton@cadvantage.com (marykchelton)
To: PUBYAC <pubyac@nysernet.org>

Given the discussion about Hawaii on this list, thought
you'd like to see this announcement.

Mary K. Chelton

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>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996
>Subject: Outsourcing Library Technical Services
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>Announcing the availability of
      OUTSOURCING LIBRARY TECHNICAL SERVICES:
      A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL
      by Arnold Hirshon and Barbara Winters

>More than ever, libraries are turning to outsourcing as >a strategic
management tool to make maximum use of >financial and human resources. This
book provides >practical advice on how to:

>determine when outsourcing is an appropriate management
>tool in the process of reengineering library technical
>services;

>conduct cost studies to evaluate technical operations;

>prepare formal requests-for-proposals to outsource the
>acquisition of books and periodicals, and for cataloging;
>and,

>evaluate vendor responses and services,and monitor the
>quality of outsourced operations.

>The book also explores the advantages and disadvantages
>of outsourcing, human resource concerns when >outsourcing, and contract
management and compliance.

>The book includes detailed RFP specifications for
>procuring book,journal,and cataloging services.
>These RFP specifications, and the spreadsheets >necessary for estimating
costs of current and >outsourced cataloging, are also available in
>IBM/DOS/Windows format on an accompanying disk.

>RFP specifications are provided in WordPerfect, >Microsoft Word, and ASCII
formats. The spreadsheets are >provided in Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel, and
Quattro >Pro formats.

>Further information: The complete tables of contents >for each chapter of
this book can be found at        >www.lehigh.edu/~arh5/bookad.htm

>Order from Neal-Schuman Publishers
 100 Varick Street
 New York NY 10013.
>ISBN (book):1-55570-221-X.
>Cost: $45.00 plus $6.75 shipping and handling.
>ISBN (disk): 1-55570-272-4.
>Cost: $20.00 plus $4.75 shipping and handling.

Mary K. Chelton
Assistant Professor
School of Library & Information Management
Emporia State University
1200 Commercial
Emporia, KS 66801
(316) 342-9277 home
(316) 341-5071 work
e-mail:mchelton@cadvantage.com (home) or
cheltonm@esumail.emporia.edu (work)
fax: (316) 541-5233
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