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Reference Online Adopts Books & Media
Books & Media, the comprehensive online reference and analysis tool from BDS, has been selected by Arts Council England to be made available to English public libraries via its Reference Online service.
Books & Media is both an invaluable back-room aid for stock selection and supplier selection analysis and a customer facing resource that allows librarians and library users to keep abreast of all books featured and reviewed in the UK press, TV, radio, film and internet.
Arts Council England’s support means libraries have the chance to subscribe at significantly reduced prices if enough libraries choose to integrate Books & Media into their systems.*
“The adoption of Books & Media into Reference Online represents an unprecedented endorsement of our product,” says Sarah Armitage, Director of Library Sales at BDS. “We now sit alongside the reference greats such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Who’s Who, Grove Music Online and the Oxford English Dictionary and the Books & Media service is affordable for everyone.”
BDS, the creators of Books & Media, working with Arts Council England, can offer libraries an incredible 75% reduction on subscription prices if half the library services in England take up Books & Media by 1st April 2012. To subscribe contact Sarah Armitage (contact details below).
Arts Council England now represents arts, museums and libraries, having assumed some of the functions of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), on 1 October 2011.
Reference Online is a national collaborative procurement initiative currently led by Arts Council England on behalf of English public libraries. Its purpose is to provide a service for the procurement of commercial electronic products and services which secures cost-effectiveness for libraries, streamlined processes for all and – most importantly – improved services to public library users. Over the past five years, the service has achieved £7.5million efficiency gains for public libraries and has been well-received by users, library staff and suppliers alike.
To subscribe, find out more about subscription rates or to discuss what Books & Media can do for your library service please contact Sarah Armitage on sarah.armitage@bibdsl.co.uk or 07860 324570
Visit Books & Media on www.booksandmedia.co.uk.
* Books and Media is provided to English public libraries through Arts Council England Reference Online. Offers are conditional upon the exchange of contracts between Arts Council England and BDS in the coming weeks.
