[Lswtalk] Overdrive ordering / payment idea

[Mary Foster-Galasso]

Like Howard, I need a concrete amount for budget purposes.  I have a lot of confidence in Loretta and with her ordering items for all of us.  The question would be how much more we would need to increase our budget for Overdrive.  We have not done any Overdrive purchases for 2015 and I will hold off until a decision is reached by LSW.  If the decision is for implementation in 2016, then let me know if it is ok for us to go ahead and buy.  If Calcasieu is buying on our behalf, then we would need to get an invoice from Calcasieu for us to reimburse Calcasieu for the buys.

 

Dear friends, I have advanced breast cancer and will be beginning chemo week after next.  I am trying to set things up for a board meeting week after next.  What I may do is ask the board to approve a maximum amount that Evangeline can contribute toward Overdrive per year for the next two or three years.  If you all have a general idea of the kind of price range we might be talking about, please let me know.  It is time I believe to increase the amount, since there has been no increase in the commitment since the beginning of the Overdrive consortium.  Unfortunately, a lot of other costs are increasing as well.

 

Suzy gave me a good report on the meeting.  I know Overdrive is a very complex issue; very proud to be part of such a great group as LSW.

 

Databases are a totally separate item.  For now I think Evangeline needs to just keep on with the databases that it has got.

 

Best always,

Mary at Evangeline

 

From: lswtalk-bounces at beau.org [mailto:lswtalk-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Howard L. Coy Jr.
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:48 PM
To: Erin Chesnutt
Cc: Libtaries Southwest
Subject: Re: [Lswtalk] Overdrive ordering / payment idea

 

I need a concrete amount for budget purposes. This year is tight, probably will get tighter, and next year, may be even less income than this year. Things are not looking up as far as income. There is no extra money, but there are a lot of things I would like to add, i.e. digitalizing newspaper, but simply not enough income to begin.

 

Howard

 

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Erin Chesnutt <echesnut at beau.org> wrote:

I've been mulling this over and would like to propose that if we go with the idea of CPPL handling all OD purchases, we each continue to dedicate $3,000 annually to OD purchases PLUS the avg. cost of an OD purchase multiplied times the number of RTLs that library had over the previous 12 months (determined once per year).

Basically:  $3,000 annually + RTL compensation based on previous year's stats       Would this be paid monthly? annually?

Too complicated?    I'm fine with raising the minimum annual $, but thought this might be easier to swallow for anyone in the group expecting a tight budget.
-- 

Erin N. Chesnutt, MLIS
Director
*/Beauregard Parish Library/*/
Knowledge. Growth. Imagination./


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