Connecting with the booktrade: library use of TELEORDERING

For the past few months, Croydon Public Library has been running a pilot project on the use of TELEORDERING. TELEORDERING has been around now for some 10 years and has, in the past, made tentative overtures towards the library community; however, it is only now that the first library has begun to test the use of the system for library acquisition purposes. TELEORDERING is essentially an electronic messaging system between two parties: booksellers and publishers. With the introduction of Croydon Public Library, a third party has been added to the communications process, with the library sending to the library supplier orders, which are then sent on to the publishers or other sources.