Delivery Recommendations
Jun 27 2008, 1:37 PM EDT
| Post edited: Jun 27 2008, 1:37 PM EDT
During today's conference call (6/27/08) we discussed the fact that our group's charge is to come up with some recommendations for delivery. We agreed that there might be more than one recommendation and/or different levels of service.
All of us on the call agreed that there's no need to "reinvent the wheel". We have a delivery service in place that works - LAND. The challenge is to figure out how to bring everyone in at the level that is right for them, and of course how to pay for it! The key to LAND is quick turn-around time, and it is important to retain that. This means that it would not make sense to add small libraries that only need delivery 1 or 2 times a week to the existing routes. But there needs to be a way to inlcude these libraries if we are to have statewide delivery. For those regions that already have a regional delivery service, could the 3Rs (or other designated stop) serve as a hub? If each "hub" paid for its LAND stop, then smaller libraries in the region could be served through the hub via the regional delivery service. There would have to be a stipulation that those libraries that were already full LAND participants could not step down to a lower level of service, but that should not be a problem because LAND is a requirement for participation in IDS. Other regional options could also be possible, like UPS.
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