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Selection partners
The following library materials vendors currently participate in WorldCat Selection:
- Aux Amateurs de Livres International
Provides bibliographic services for libraries through Approval Plans, a New Titles Notification Program, a Website Database, and MARC21 Services which include Full Cataloging Records (FCR) or MINimal-level Acquisitions Records (MINAR) with embedded order/invoicing data. Aux Amateurs supplies both French and English language titles published in France and French titles published in Francophone countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Africa and the Caribbean).
- Blackwell Book Service
Blackwell aims to help libraries keep the costs of identifying and acquiring books and ebooks as low as possible. Their tools, services, customer relationships, and partnerships are all built to create efficient workflows for libraries in the belief that the costs of acquiring books, if inefficient, can be greater than the costs of the books themselves. Ultimately, efficient acquisition enables libraries to make available to their patrons a larger part of the universe of scholarly information that could prove useful to them. Blackwell has offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States. To get in touch with them write to custserv@blackwell.com.
- Casalini Libri
While maintaining their customary distribution methods of New Title Information on French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese publications (paper slips, e-mail and online at the Casalini Libri website), Casalini looks forward to making this bibliographical service also available through WorldCat Selection.
- China International Book Trading Corporation
Guoji Shudian, predecessor of China International Book Trading Corporation (CIBTC), was established in December 1949. Being a subordinate of China International Publishing Group, CIBTC is one of China's premier firms dealing in publications import and export, and has branches and offices in USA, Germany, UK, Belgium, Japan and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and subsidiaries in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, etc. They help develop a business network covering 180 countries and regions, keep relations with over thousand distribution institutions, bookstores and publishers, as well as hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide.
- China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation
China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (CNPIEC) is a large-scale cultural enterprise founded in 1949. In January 2009, a new CNPIEC was formed following its strategic restructuring with China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (CNPITC). It boasts total assets of more than 3 billion yuan, over 2000 in-service staff members and 37 branches at home and abroad. With the formation of such six core businesses as import of publications, export of publications, domestic and overseas exhibitions, overseas publishing, domestic publishing and overseas outlets, it has become the largest and most competitive import and export enterprise in cultural products.
- Coutts Information Services
Provides book supply, collection management and shelf-ready services to libraries throughout the world. Coutts offers approval and new title notification plans based on customized library profiles, as well as firm and standing orders. Coutts is a global partner able to help libraries with the transition from print to electronic content, offering the MyiLibrary aggregated eBook platform, and integrated workflow processes. With offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, Coutts serves libraries around the world.
- East View Information Services
East View Information Services, founded in 1989, is headquartered in Minneapolis, USA, with major offices in Russia and Ukraine. With over 150 employees worldwide East View has developed a reliable and extensive acquisition network and is a leader in providing high-quality information resources from the countries of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia and Middle East to libraries around the world.
- Erasmus Boekhandel BV
Based in Amsterdam, Erasmus Boekhandel BV provides a wide range of library oriented services to academic and research libraries throughout the world. These include a New Title Service, Approval Plans, EDI, MARC records and a specialized Standing Order Department. Technical services are tailored according to the needs of each library.
- Harrassowitz
This full range library service agency, located in Wiesbaden/Germany, specializes in the distribution of scholarly books, periodicals, e-products, and music scores to academic and research libraries. A variety of technical services and workflow solutions are included in the overall library service.
- Howard Karno Books, Inc.
Howard Karno Books, Inc. specializes in new, out-of-print, rare books, documents, and original materials about Latin America. Since 1973, they have specialized in Latin Americana covering Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, the Hispanic United States and the Iberian Peninsula. Subjects and materials include original documents, manuscripts, photography and archives with a strong emphasis on history, archaeology and the arts: fine art, folk and popular arts, architecture, photography, exhibition catalogues, music, cinema, first edition literature, performing arts, artists‚ books, portfolios, posters, and gastronomy for all time periods. Howard Karno Books, Inc. is a member of the Antiquarian Book Dealers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
- Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale
As a worldwide French bookseller and subscription agent for over 50 years, Touzot offers new title notifications, approval plans and a wide range of acquisitions services to libraries. Their services include online selection and ordering, EDI transfer, MARC record delivery, and e-notifications for new titles published in France and other francophone countries. All book receipts, cataloging and online databases are based on professional review of materials at Touzot’s Paris bookshops.
- Leila Books
Located in Cairo, Egypt, Leila Books was established in 1960 as a bookseller and subscription agent. They specialize in serving academic and research libraries and scholars for orders from Egypt and the entire Arab world (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen). Firm orders, approval plans according to profile, and standing orders are all supported by Leila Books.
- Librairie Erasmus
Located in the center of Paris, Librairie Erasmus supplies books and journals from France and French-speaking Switzerland to academic and research libraries throughout the world. Bibliographic information for new and forthcoming scholarly publications is provided through the New Titles Service. Additional services include Approval Plans, EDI, Standing Orders and MARC records.
- Library of Congress
Distribute notification records for newly cataloged books and scores from the Library of Congress as an awareness tool to selectors. Book records are distributed daily, and score records are distributed weekly. Year of publication includes the most recent 6 years (during the months of January to March) or 5 years (during the months of April to December). Juvenile titles (audience level = a, b, c, d, or j), titles with unknown publishers (260b = s.n.), and titles matching to your institution's custom file of keywords (such as publishers that you receive on approval) are removed.
- Lindsay & Croft
Part of the YBP group since 1998, Lindsay & Croft is one of the best-resourced providers of both English and non-English books sourced from the UK and Continental Europe and delivered to academic and research institutions around the world. In 2005, Lindsay & Howes joined forces with Croft House and was renamed Lindsay & Croft. In 2008, Lindsay & Croft relocated its offices to a new distribution centre in the heart of Oxfordshire countryside, close to the academic and publishing centre at Oxford University.
- YBP Library Services
YBP Library Services, founded in 1971, is a supplier of electronic and print monographs, collection management and technical service solutions to research libraries and consortia worldwide. Acquired by Baker & Taylor in 1999, YBP has over 300 employees and supports a growing database of over 3 million titles. YBP's headquarters are located in Contoocook, New Hampshire, a village 70 miles north of Boston.
Future partners
OCLC will continually work to add more vendors to the service. The following partners will become available through the Selection service soon.
- D.K. Agencies
D.K. Agencies, founded in 1968, are booksellers and subscription agents handling publications originating from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and serving university, research and public libraries around the world. They supply books in English, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Hindi and other vernacular languages of India (Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Urdu, etc.) through firm orders and blanket orders/approval plans.
- Susan Bach Books
Susan Bach Books, located in Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1949 by a linguist and bookdealer from Europe and is the oldest existing bookdealing firm in the country. As a distributor of all Brazilian university and academic presses, they have a large stock of out-of print books and periodicals and a fine collection of Rare Books. Their representatives are in all regions of Brazil and have arrangements with a few bookdealers from Spanish-speaking neighboring countries which enable them to supply some selected titles from Latin America. They provide full library services of Brazilian materials in all subjects and their services include: approval plans, standing orders, serial subscriptions, new-titles bulletins, monographic ordering, full cataloging and minimal level records, and shelf- ready processing. For additional information about the Brazilian materials and library services that they provide, please contact Susan Bach Books at sbach@sbachbooks.com.br
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