Connecting with the booktrade: library use of TELEORDERING

Abstract

For the past few months, Croydon Public Library has been running a pilot project on the use of TELEORDERING. TELEORDERING has been around now for some 10 years and has, in the past, made tentative overtures towards the library community; however, it is only now that the first library has begun to test the use of the system for library acquisition purposes. TELEORDERING is essentially an electronic messaging system between two parties: booksellers and publishers. With the introduction of Croydon Public Library, a third party has been added to the communications process, with the library sending to the library supplier orders, which are then sent on to the publishers or other sources.

Citation

(1988), "Connecting with the booktrade: library use of TELEORDERING", VINE, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 19-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040401