September 19, 2006
Symposium on Library Courier Services - Delivery 2.0
Last week I was in Denver participating in a symposium about library courier services. The symposium, Moving Mountains: Exploring Library Courier Services, was an excellent opportunity for people in the delivery trenches to get together and share ideas about the myriad ways delivery can be accomplished in a library settings. There were as many ways to do it as there are library relationships.
As resource-sharing opportunities grow and more and more libraries expose their collections to users using innovative mash-ups (I think that might be redundant), we'll see even more variety in how delivery is done. Or will we? Are we destined to partner with UPS or FedEx for a large portion of our delivery needs because our users will demand that level of professionalism? I think that the answer to that question is yes. If you'd like to hear what else I had to say (or intended to say), here's a PDF of my presentation, Library Delivery 2.0. Comments welcome.
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At it's meeting yesterday in Harrisburg, the PA Interlibrary Delivery Service (IDS) Board voted to continue its delivery contract with UPS. We looked long and hard at US Cargo but in the end the cost savings were not great enough to justify the switch. In addition as we explore new services like home and office delivery we need a carrier that goes everywhere, not jut library to library.
Posted by: Dan Iddings | October 20, 2006 4:51 AM