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Seventy Percent of Library Books Arrive Shelf-Ready
Seventy percent of the Libraries' monographs, roughly 50% of all non-journal materials, are now received ready for the shelf and with a Library of Congress bibliographic record supplied. Yankee Book Peddler, the library's primary vendor of English language monographs, supplies the pre-processed books for which only routine processing is required. The library continues to send most paperbacks to a commercial bindery before sending them to the shelf.
Outsourcing straightforward processing has allowed Collection Services staff to focus their efforts on more difficult projects during a period of staff reallocation. Processing activities for the libraries on all campuses have now been centralized in the Babbidge Library. Writing technical specifications for Yankee Book Peddler has led to increased standardization and simplification of processing across the library system. There have been a few glitches in the one-year-old program; this type of outsourcing is new to academic libraries and their vendors. Nevertheless, the new arrangements have proven beneficial to the library, and to users, whose books get to the New Book Browsing Area, and then to the shelves, much faster than ever before.
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