Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing
informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors,
agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains two messages:
(1) Could this be your library?
(2) Results from The Survey of Library Experiences with Shelf Ready
Vendor Services

(1)-------------------
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:25:07 +0000
From: Louise Peck <peckl@rsc.org>
Subject: Could this be your library?

In 2011, RSC Publishing asked the librarian community to enter their
library pictures into the RSC Publishing Catalogue front cover
competition. This competition proved extremely popular - drawing entrants
from countries across the globe including France, Lithuania, Slovenia,
Spain, Tajikistan, South Africa, Turkey, UK and USA.

Enter the RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013 Library Photograph Competition
with the theme "creative use of digital chemistry resources in the library
for research or teaching" and you could be on the front cover of the 2013
RSC Publishing Catalogue with 15,000 printed and distributed worldwide!

For more information
GO TO http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpublishing/2012/02/20/catalogue-competition/

Kind regards
 
Louise
Louise Peck BSc LM DipM MCIM, Library Marketing Specialist
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House,
Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247
www.rsc.org/publishing
peckl@rsc.org

(2)-------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:40:40 -0500
From: James Moses <primarydat@AOL.COM>
Subject: Results from The Survey of Library Experiences with Shelf Ready
Vendor Services, ISBN 1-57440-189-0.

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Library Experiences
with Shelf Ready Vendor Services, ISBN 1-57440-189-0.  The report presents
data from nearly sixty public and academic libraries, with results broken
out by size and type of library, and other variables.  The report looks at
library spending on shelf ready services, what kinds of materials receive
shelf ready services, what types of shelf ready services that libraries
are using, and how happy they are with them, among other issues.

Just a few of the report'ss findings are that:

* Nearly 15% of libraries in the sample have been deterred from using
shelf-ready processing services by the possible delay in receiving ordered
materials.

* 62.5% of libraries currently using shelf-ready services use spine label
shelf-ready service.

* Juvenile materials are excluded from shelf-ready labeling by 14.81% of
all libraries in the sample.

* 41.18% of libraries report that their vendor charges a uniform fee for
all items in a shipment regardless of which items receive particular
shelf-ready services.

* Libraries in the sample estimate that a mean of 35.34% of their
technical services work is outsourced to shelf-ready service providers.

* Book jobbers, subscription agents, and other major content providers
and distributors account for a mean of 59.37% of spending on shelf-ready
services among libraries in the sample.

* Upon receiving shelf-ready materials, 59.38% of libraries route them to
Cataloging/Processing to complete processing and ensure quality control
standards. These include 54.55% of academic libraries.

* 91.67% of libraries in the sample, including 93.33% of academic
libraries and 88.89% of public libraries, report an average rate of 0-3%
of physical processing errors on shipments received by their libraries.

For further information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.