Post on 30-Dec-2015
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Florida Library Delivery
Diana Sachs-Silveira
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
What is Delivery? • The statewide service
provides delivery materials to 225 sites in Florida.
• Delivery is part of the FEL, program and is supported in part by LSTA dollars
• Libraries pay by the number of ‘stops’ a week not by the number or size of items.
Benefits to Delivery
• Supports Resource Sharing & ILL
• Power of the Network
• Billing By “Stops” Encourages Sharing
• Fast Delivery
• Ease of Handling
From Library to Library• Library ‘Bags’ item
• Velocity picks up and delivers to hub
• Sent to receiving hub
• Sent to library
• Processed and given to user
• Sent back to owning library
ORL
TLH
JAX
TPA
GVL
MIA
FMY
2005-06 Statistics
• 329,173 - Orange Bags moved by the vendor
• 526,677 – Estimated number of items moved if each bag averages 1.6 items
• 225 - Participating library locations
• 43,160 - Number of deliveries made by the vendor
• 49 – Number of items lost or damaged and paid for by the vendor
Quick Quiz
• What do the three letters in the right-hand corner of the Delivery label mean?
• When can you report a missed stop?
• When can you report a missing item?
• Is Delivery service available on the weekends?
Delivery Contact Info
3 ways to contact us with issues:• www.tblc.org/delivery• 800-622-8252• deliver@tblc.org
Stay involved by joining the Delivery Mailing List @ www.tblc.org/delivery