By Arleta Blades
Directors of BCR member libraries should have received the 1999-2000 fiscal year
BCR Price List and subscription packet.
This important packet not only contains new fiscal year prices for BCR products and
services, but also provides information and forms needed for a library to submit its
annual subscription payment to BCR. By prepaying your subscription by the July 23
deadline, your library receives a 2.5 percent discount (based on an annual percentage
rate) on all products and services purchased from BCR over the next fiscal year (July
1, 1999-June 30, 2000).
In addition, your library will be awarded a BCR training voucher for every $10,000
prepaid by the July 23 deadline. Each voucher entitles one person on your staff to
attend a BCR workshop free during the 1999-2000 fiscal year. We project that BCR
will award more than $55,000 in discounts and another $18,500 worth of free
workshops (through the training vouchers) to our member libraries this year.
To qualify for the vouchers, however, your library's subscription payment must be
received in BCR's Aurora office no later than July 23. There can be no exceptions to
this deadline since BCR must immediately forward the total amount we receive to
OCLC and other vendors with which we have contracts.
If you have not received the Price List and prepaid subscription packet, please contact
Arleta Blades, BCR Business Office manager, or send e-mail to ablades@bcr.org. She
also is the best person to contact with questions about prepaying your BCR
subscription.
