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News Release (June 2010) |
HARRASSOWITZ Supports ASA's Library Choice Program:
As the number of publishers offering e-content and e-content packages continues to grow, the role of the modern-day librarian is quickly being overtaken by the volume of work required to ensure immediate and seamless access to e-collection materials.
In response to this increasing complexity, the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA) is working with publishers to develop the Library Choice Program. Library Choice acknowledges that for many libraries, it is simply easier and more efficient to use a trusted agent to process orders and payments as well as provide management information and deliver other value-added services throughout the subscription cycle. In addition, the ASA and its member organizations, including HARRASSOWITZ, also acknowledge the variety and complexity of consortia and other multi-site deals in which libraries are involved: whether purchasing content through a consortium or as an individual institute.
Library Choice aims to help publishers recognize that libraries have a wide range of service requirements and invoicing and payment preferences. By signing a Library Choice letter, publishers not only pledge their support to libraries, but also publicly endorse the importance of choice when it comes to the involvement of agents and other intermediaries whose services support acquisition, access and use of information resources in the library.
From its inception, HARRASSOWITZ has been actively involved in the ASA's Library Choice initiative. Monika Krieg, HARRASSOWITZ Head of Publisher Relations, is on the Library Choice Board and has been instrumental in the development and promotion of the Library Choice program.
Today, HARRASSOWITZ proudly joins ASA's efforts to promote Library Choice by contacting the publishers that do business with HARRASSOWITZ and asking them to sign a Library Choice letter. We also encourage our customers to urge their publishing partners to join the Library Choice initiative. To learn more about Library Choice, visit the ASA Web site.