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Librarians in Hawaii Speak Out:#3 [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] Third in a series of posts "straight from the horse's mouth" so to speak. Patricia Wallace, Chair, Hawaii Working Group. denwall@aol.com [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] From: Laurel L Indalecio <laindale@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu> To: denwall@aol.com et al (Hawaii Working Group) Subject: Forwarded mail.... Date: Jan 6, 1997 The following came in from Deborah Gutermuth from the Kaneohe Public Library. It is another example of what is being said on the internal library e-mail. And FYI, in case you are wondering, all libraries are supposed to call themselves "Team -------" In this case, Team Bond which refers to Bond Memorial Public Library which is located on the Big Island aka Island of Hawaii (island where the active volcanoes are). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deborah Gutermuth <gutent@hgea.org> To: "Laurel L. Indalecio" <laindale@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu> Cc: Kelly King <keking@makani.k12.hi.us> Date: Jan 6, 1997 Laurel- I'm entering the e-mail sent to all from Bond Memorial Library on the Big Island. One more time, it proves we are getting "second" or "third" best from Baker&Taylor. I, for one, have had great success with them as a VENDOR. Their "selection section" is @#$!!!. Since ALL our budget for new books is in Baker&Taylor's hands--is it any wonder all of us are out grubbing and begging for handouts? This also plays havoc with Bart's premise of "Service First" -- the supposed savings from putting all CPC and CSS personnel back in the Libraries is taken up with trying to find funds not given to B&T, and repairing the flaws in Cataloging and processing from B&T. From: Bond Memorial Public Library To: All users Subj: interesting coincidence? With a grant from Friends of the Library, Hawaii, Team Bond is preparing orders for books and video tapes. The interesting coincidence is that, in deciding to spread our funds as far as we can stretch them, we have been making selections from those frequently received discount catalogs from Publishers Quality Library Service and University Books Service. And of course, most of our selections must be items in the HSPLS database. While checking the titles we'd selected against the database holdings we discovered that almost every title was recently received as"NEW" or "IN PROCESSING", meaning that they are the same titles being shipped by B&T. Here is a brief list of some of the selections and their prices: Title List$ Disc.$ B & T B&T Dreamland by Schotter 15.95 11.17 20.94 Cousins in the Castle 15.95 10.50 20.94 The 13th Floor 15.00 10.50 20.94 Black Holes by Cooper 16.95 11.87 20.94 Spider who Created... 15.95 11.17 20.94 Northwoods Cradle Song 15.00 10.50 20.94 The Precious Gift 16.00 11.20 20.94 Irish Cinderlad 14.95 10.47 20.94 The Last Man and ... 15.95 11.17 20.94 etc. Bond will be ordering these titles at the discount price. Our Team is happy to be ordering at nearly 50% discount what HSPLS is receiving under contract at $20.94 each. Thanks to FOL for a grant that allows us to strengthen our collection at such bargain prices. If the catalogues offer the public these discounts, just think what discount B&T gets. It's enough to make you cry! And obviously, these are items no longer considered "NEW" though B&T is labeling them so. To:ALL users From Bond Memorial Subj:More interesting coincidence Lest you wonder about the shipping costs of items purchased from university Book Service, their order blank reads: "free shipping for prepaid school and library orders." So all we add is Hawaii State Tax. Processing? We do that while doing Reference...being available to our patrons! Now, if we could just get online to download our own Marc records ... we could order NEW books too! Cheers, Team Bond [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P] [P][P][P][P][P][P][P][P]