Every week or so in our local paper, the editor has a “Cheers and Boos” column regarding things happening around the community. I thought I would try out the format for this blog entry.
Cheers for Mary Copley celebrating 25 years with Matthews, for me celebrating 15 years and for Heidi Currie celebrating 10 years. This is a great place to work and I am thankful that I have been able to spend the last ten years working from home.
Boo to me since it has been six months since my last blog.
Cheers for our upcoming November to Remember Sale! The sale offers a 20% discount off published titles from our stock publishers for the entire month of November. This includes Elsevier and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins! Order as much as you want the entire month. This is not limited to one order or one purchase order. Approval plans are included. Standing orders are excluded.
Cheers for all the publishers who helped sponsor our November to Remember Sale (I think it is obvious what my next “boo” would be).
Cheers to all our sales reps attending all the regional MLA shows. It is always a great time to see customers and let them know about all our new services.
A BIG cheer to Elsevier for making over 30 of their titles available through ebrary! If you would like the complete list, please contact me at ashleyw@mattmccoy.com.
Boo to McGraw-Hill for pulling their content from all aggregators, including ebrary. They hope to sell everything direct. I would think it is important to make your content available through as many channels as possible, but that is just my opinion. For clarification, the McGraw-Hill content already available on ebrary will remain available.
Cheers to all our new developments with our ebook partner, ebrary. Along with having over 37,000 items available for purchase, we have 450 Brandon-Hill and DCT titles available through ebrary. They have also lowered their minimum annual hosting fee to $250. So, if you spend under $5,000, your hosting fee is only $250 annually. We also have a link to show all our new ebrary receipts. Just sign onto our website and the link is on the left. Contact me at ashleyw@mattmccoy.com for more information on ebrary.
Cheers for the upcoming Charleston Conference November 3rd – 6th. I am looking forward to attending and finding out all the latest trends. I am sure Patron Driven Acquisitions will still be a hot topic.
Cheers for the “ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point” online conference. It was a very informative day of keynote speeches, panel discussions and it even had an exhibitor area. Also, during each presentation, you could send in questions. If they didn’t respond to your question during the presentation, they said they would follow-up within a week. I didn’t even have to leave my basement to attend! I hope there are more online conferences like this in the future.
Hope everyone will take advantage of our November to Remember 20% discount sale! Contact me at ashleyw@mattmccoy.com if you have any questions.
