September 14, 2007
Mr. Brian Kennison
Western Connecticut State University
181 White St.
Danbury, CT 06810
USA
RE: Bowker Proposal to Western CT State U for Bowker's Book Analysis System�
Dear Mr. Kennison,
Thank you for your interest in the Bowker's Book Analysis System (BBAS/RCL). As discussed, please find the proposal to Western CT State U, for access to Bowker's Book Analysis System�. This unique collection development tool enables you to make a qualitative analysis of your monographic holdings without laborious, manual comparisons.
Bowker is pleased to introduce you to Bowker's Book Analysis System for Academic libraries that electronically compares your collection to current recommendation using Resources for College Libraries (RCL), the industry acknowledged collection development resource from ACRL.
Resources for College Libraries (RCL):
The Resources of College Libraries (3rd edition) is created by a partnership between ACRL and Bowker, thereby utilizing the editorial expertise of ACRL and bibliographic expertise of Bowker.
RCL provides a fundamental, retrospective bibliography of recommended titles in over 68 different curriculum specific subject areas that includes recommendations for a variety of electronic resources like web sites, databases & e-books. The editorial team comprised of subject editors, bibliographers, etc. who are librarians and subject specialists in their area of responsibility.
The primary consideration for selection is the undergraduate curriculum where RCL provides a list of titles deemed essential for teaching a given subject at the undergraduate level. The product will be continuously revised to keep current with changes in teaching and scholarship and to avoid obsolescence. If a library subscribes to the RCL web there will also be a link to Choice review for recommended titles.
Bowker's Book Analysis System overview and benefits:
No more manual comparisons. Electronic matching of your holdings to the RCL using ISBN, LCCN, Author and Title facilitates quick turnaround time and saves on resources.
A comprehensive tool. Considers all formats of a book when matching your holdings to the RCL.
Analytical reports. Drill-down within the Library of Congress (LC) classification structure for quick and easy analysis of detailed subject areas.
Further limit the scope of your analysis using key quality factors, such as:
Book and movie industry award winners and nominees
Review Source
Publication Year
In Print status
E-book availability
All reports are customizable and downloadable and can be saved and shared with anyone who needs in-depth information about your library's monograph collection - administrators, financial officers, accreditation committees, faculty, or researchers.
- Administrative tools let you assign access and permissions to individual users within your account, and to enable or disable specific functionality as needed.
- Data cleansing: Clean up and standardize the content in your catalogs:
- Invalid ISBN File -Identifies invalid ISBNs? within your collection which you can research in BooksInPrint?.com and add back to your catalog in their correct format.
- IBSN-13 File - ISBN-13 conversion for all records with a valid ISBN-10.
- Duplicate Record File - Identifies duplicate holdings across all formats of titles within the RCL that you hold.
- No Match File -All records in your collection that did not match to the RCL.
- Built-in links to BooksinPrint?.com give you access to a database of rich, comprehensive bibliographic information on over 6 million books, audio books and videos including tables of contents, full-text reviews, annotations, book excerpts, and price and availability details.
Together, these features and capabilities make Bowker's Book Analysis System an essential tool that offers important benefits to your library, including:
- Significant savings of time, resources and effort in collection management
- Informed decision-making
- Identification of potential cost savings
- Improved communications and reporting
- Collection benchmarking
- A credible basis for planning
- Search and discovery tools for books
Price Proposal for Western CT State University:
|
Product |
# of Users |
Term |
# of Monograph Volumes
|
Annual Subscription Price |
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Bowker's Book Analysis System
|
Unlimited |
Annual |
200,000 |
$3,565.00 |
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Includes BooksInPrint?.com w/Reviews Subscription |
Unlimited |
Annual |
|
$2,000.00
|
|
15% Discount if ordered by 10/30/07 |
|
$5,565.00
-15% =$4,730.25 |
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TOTAL PRICE |
Training and Support:
Bowker will provide online training for Western CT State University at an agreed date.
Bowker will provide unlimited telephone and technical support to Western CT State U.
Terms of Proposal Offer:
The above offer is valid until October 30th, 2007. Bowker will require an order confirmation from you, before this date in order to guarantee the price.
I am confident that the new Bowker's Book Analysis System will be of major benefit to your library and will save you considerable time and effort in managing your monograph collections. I will contact you to review the offer and ensure that I have included everything you require.
Sincerely,
Michael DiTullio?
Field Account Executive - New England Territory
(888) 269-5372 x0125