Florida Library Delivery

Diana Sachs-Silveira

Tampa Bay Library Consortium

What is Delivery? • The statewide service

provides delivery materials to 225 sites in Florida.

• Delivery is part of the FEL, program and is supported in part by LSTA dollars

• Libraries pay by the number of ‘stops’ a week not by the number or size of items.

Benefits to Delivery

• Supports Resource Sharing & ILL

• Power of the Network

• Billing By “Stops” Encourages Sharing

• Fast Delivery

• Ease of Handling

From Library to Library• Library ‘Bags’ item

• Velocity picks up and delivers to hub

• Sent to receiving hub

• Sent to library

• Processed and given to user

• Sent back to owning library

ORL

TLH

JAX

TPA

GVL

MIA

FMY

2005-06 Statistics

• 329,173 - Orange Bags moved by the vendor

• 526,677 – Estimated number of items moved if each bag averages 1.6 items

• 225 - Participating library locations

• 43,160 - Number of deliveries made by the vendor

• 49 – Number of items lost or damaged and paid for by the vendor

Quick Quiz

• What do the three letters in the right-hand corner of the Delivery label mean?

• When can you report a missed stop?

• When can you report a missing item?

• Is Delivery service available on the weekends?

Delivery Contact Info

3 ways to contact us with issues:• www.tblc.org/delivery• 800-622-8252• deliver@tblc.org

Stay involved by joining the Delivery Mailing List @ www.tblc.org/delivery