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15 Cards in this Set
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ABEBOOKS
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A leading online market place for used, rare, and out of print books,provides a list of over 40 million titles available from a network of over 10,000 booksellers. The company provides additional services to librarians, such as consolidated billing and purchase orders.
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AGGREGATOR
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An organization that develops packages of electronic serials.
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BACK ORDER
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Refers to material ordered but not shipped at the same time as the rest of the order. Codes on the vendor report should indicate the title has been backordered.
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BACK FILES
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The back issues or volumes of a serial publication.
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BACKLIST TITLE
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Title in a publisher’s output whose sales are consistent enough over a period of time to justify the publisher’s keeping it in print.
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BAKER & TAYLOR
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A vendor in the business of supplying materials to retailers and libraries, usually at a discount, and of providing value added and customized services to meet the needs of libraries of all types.
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BID
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A situation whereby a library solicits from all available vendors and offers all or most of its business to the vendor that offers the highest discounts.
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BOOK DISTRIBUTION
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Defined by the Book Industry Study Group as including book ordering; order processing; reordering; physical movement of books; inventory control; returns processing; receivables, credit, and collections; and data-processing support for all these functions.
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BOOKPLATE
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A type of property marking, used especially for special collections or rare materials.
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BOOK SELLER
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A person or company that sells books.
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CALL NUMBERS
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Letters and/or numbers affixed to the outside of an item to identify its placement on the shelf. Used to shelve and retrieve the item. Each item has isn’t own call number.
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CANCELLATION PERIOD
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The period of time a library allows a vendor to provide a book before canceling an order; ninety days is a common cancellation period.
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CHAIN BOOKSTORE
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Bookstore that is part of a group run by a single owner, such as Borders or Barnes & Noble.
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CLAIM
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Notice generated by the library and sent to a vendor asking why an ordered book has not been provided.
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CLAIM REPORTS
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Documentation relating to claims.
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