Moving Materials

Moving Materials is the guide to contemporary logistics management for libraries. Eleven experts in the field explore every aspect of this multi-million dollar function.

Auteur

Valerie Horton has been director of Minitex since December 2012. Minitex serves Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota libraries with a large resource-sharing network, databases, continuing education, remote storage, and many other services. Horton is also the co-general editor for Collaborative Librarianship, and wrote Moving Materials: Physical Delivery in Libraries for ALA Publications. Prior to working at Minitex, she was the first director of the Colorado Library Consortium (CliC), a statewide library service organization. Before CliC, Valerie was Director of the Library at Mesa State after ten years at New Mexico State University, where she was Head of Systems, and for a time, library budget director/associate director. During her tenure in New Mexico, Valerie received an ALA International Fellowship and spent a year in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, where she consulted on how to automate the country's public, school, and government libraries. She started her professional career as a systems librarian at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from and working in Systems at the University of Hawaii.

Résumé
Picking, packing, delivering, and returning library materials can be very time consuming and expensive; yet, it is one of the most important and least understood functions within a library. Until now, little time has been spent studying, exploring, or writing about the physical delivery of library materials. Moving Materials is the guide to contemporary logistics management for libraries. Eleven experts in the field explore every aspect of this multi-million dollar function, so readers will learnThe impact of pricing on delivery servicesManaging in-house delivery systemsThe value of outsourcing physical delivery to a carrier serviceDetails about routing and materials management systemsNew technologies and the impact of library 2.0 on physical deliveryThe how-to's of home deliveryMoving Materials is a practical, useful handbook for library managers who want to save money and offer quality materials to their patrons.

Contenu

Preface I. The Current Landscape of Physical Delivery 1. Delivery: The Forgotten Function Valerie Horton 2. Factors Influencing Delivery Options Valerie Horton and Brenda Bailey-Hainer 3. Physical Delivery Ser­vice Orga­nization Bruce Smith II. Library Delivery Service Models 4. Creating an In-House Delivery System Bruce Smith 5. Outsourcing Delivery Ser­vices Valerie Horton and Greg Pronevitz 6. Contractual Vendor Relations David Millikin and Brenda Bailey-Hainer III. Managing Physical Delivery Services 7. Routing and Materials Management Systems Bruce Smith and Valerie Horton 8. Growth Management Solutions Valerie Horton, Ivan Gaetz, and Bruce Smith 9. Managing Participating Libraries' Relationships Valerie Horton 10. Managing the Delivery Ser­vice Valerie Horton, Lisa Priebe, and Melissa Stockton IV. The Future of Physical Delivery 11. Home Delivery Lori Ayre and Jim Myers 12. Connecting Courier Ser­vices Valerie Horton Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index