BDS: Data and innovation opening new possibilites

When you discover what Books & Media can do for your library and its customers we think you'll find it indispensable.

A web-based subscription service, Books & Media offers a comprehensive and unique resource on books featured across all consumer media. Books & Media is updated daily and can be used as 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.

Books & Media covers all books featured in the national press in Britain and Ireland, whether reviewed or referenced in general editorial, interviews or the news. Books & Media also covers books and authors with official tie-ins or featured on radio or discussed on social networking sites and blogs. Authors appearing on TV chat shows and books adapted into major and independent movies are also covered.

Every Sunday night subscribers will be able to find out what was reviewed in the weekend newspapers and who was interviewed where - with star ratings on reviews. The TV and radio service, updated mid-week ahead of transmissions, lists the channel and broadcast time for each programme that features or is linked to books, including specialist programmes such as cookery and gardening.

This huge resource is fully searchable, so you can get the information you need to make Books & Media work for your library in the way you want.

Great Savings

The creators of Books & Media are working with Arts Council England to offer libraries an incredible 75% reduction on subscription prices if half the library services in England take up Books & Media via Reference Online.

“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.”

To find out more about subscription rates and to discuss what Books & Media can do for your library service please contact Sarah Armitage on sarah.armitage@bibdsl.co.uk or 07860 324570.