By Arleta Blades
Directors of BCR member libraries should have received the 2000-2001 fiscal year BCR
Price List and prepaid 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 21
deadline, your library receives a 2.5 percent discount (based on an annual percentage
rate) on products and services purchased from BCR over the next fiscal year (July 1,
2000- June 30, 2001).
In addition, your library will be awarded a BCR training voucher for every $10,000
prepaid by the July 21 deadline. Each voucher entitles one person on your staff to attend
a BCR workshop free during the 2000-2001 fiscal year. We project that BCR will award
more than $60,500 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 office no later than July 21. 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 your Price List and prepaid subscription packet, please contact
Arleta Blades, BCR Business Office manager at ablades@bcr.org. She also is the best
person to contact with questions about prepaying your BCR subscription.
