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Collections
We supply local and international titles to libraries in Australia and New Zealand, offering expert curation, professional Collection Strategy support and complete control over your acquisitions. James Bennett has a highly skilled team of subject specialists dedicated to learning your library’s unique requirements and supporting your acquisitions program.
Collection Strategy Services
Why?
Our expert team provide a flexible range of outsourced collection development solutions based on their experience and knowledge of your library’s requirements.
Benefits
We consult with your library staff in detailed interviews and workshops when establishing a new selection service to create a collection strategy that matches your community’s requirements. Regular workshops along with the use of analytical tools ensure profiles retain relevancy and adapt to changes in demand.
Projects
Why?
James Bennett has been working with our library customers to provide materials for:
- Opening Day Collections
- Special Buys
- Collection Maintenance and Refreshment
- Refurbishment-buying and many more!
Benefits
Our Implementation Team will project manage every step of the process to ensure delivery of a successful Opening Day Collection.
Customised Library Services
Why?
James Bennett Customised Library Services (CLS) offer comprehensive cataloguing and technical service solutions for your library. No matter what the size and scope of your processing and cataloguing project or ongoing needs, we are committed to delivering your materials system and shelf-ready – on time.
From cataloguing to labelling, James Bennett has you ‘covered’.
Benefits
We consult with your library staff in detailed interviews and workshops when establishing a new selection service to create a collection strategy that matches your community’s requirements. Regular workshops along with the use of analytical tools ensure profiles retain relevancy and adapt to changes in demand.
James Bennet Online
Why?
James Bennett Online is an online selection and acquisition interface designed specifically to make searching and ordering titles for your library as easy as possible.
Benefits
JBO is the largest database of its kind in the world, has access to over 10 million in-print titles and can be tailored to your needs and integrated into your existing acquisitions workflows.
Vox Books
Why?
VOX Books are an innovative collection designed to make learning and literacy development exciting! Each hardcover book comes with a full audio recording. Readers simply press a button to listen and read along.
Benefits
VOX Books can increase literacy in your library, without tying-up human resources. VOX also has a wide range of titles and reading levels, the rechargeable batteries last for up to 150 listens per charge and VOX have a range of bilingual titles in over 12 languages.
Digital Services
James Bennett offers an unparalleled range of products and services designed to foster engagement within and between your library and the broader community. From digital newspapers, magazines, and stories read-aloud, to parenting and tertiary career support – we have your community covered.
ParentTV
Why?
Curating 40+ parenting and wellbeing experts to provide parents, carers, teachers and patrons with the informating they need! Including evidence-based content around ASD, ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder.
Benefits
ParentTV offers reliable expert advice in easily digestible units, based on the most up to date, research-based information on child development and neuroscience. ParentTV also includes over 370+ multilingual videos.
PressReader
Why?
Over 7,000+ newspaper and magazine publications in a clear, streamlined format, accessible in 64 languages, with translations available into 16+ languages!
Benefits
Publications can be limited to meet community sensibilities, needs, as well as diverse interests and backgrounds. PressReader are always adding new titles, including The New York Times, The Economist and its newest addition, News Corp publications. FYI, puzzles are coming very soon!
StoryBox Hub
Why?
StoryBox Hub is your one-stop, all-in-one storytelling toolkit. StoryBox contains hundreds of high-quality stories, read-aloud by favourite local storytellers, including, David Wenham, Kirli Saunders, Thomas Mayo, Josh Pyke and so many more! AND, small patrons can learn the art of storytelling as away of connecting and navigating the world with Story Tools!
Benefits
StoryBox Hub has a diverse range of content, with a particular emphasis on Australian First Nations’ content, as well as ensuring most of their stories as AUSLAN-friendly. Story Tools offer short videos with lesson plans and resources (designed by teachers!) to help empower your small patrons to tell their stories.
Follett Destiny
Why?
Follett Destiny is THE School Library Management System. Destiny manages your books and library resources, but you know what’s even better. Managing their data and related systems in an easy and intuitive way.
Benefits
Destiny is your solution for everything you ever wanted to tackle in your school, but couldn’t due to budget or time constraints.
Community
Our purpose is to bring enrichment and foster engagement within, and between Libraries and their broader communities. We bring content and discovery tools to enable libraries to provide patrons with dynamic and vibrant environments acting as local portals to the wider world, enriched by reading, learning, and inspired by information and ideas.
Accelerated Circulation Plan
Why?
James Bennett’s Accelerated Circulation Plan is an end-to-end solution which boosts circulation by meeting demand when it is at its peak; then when demand drops you return the books, freeing up staff and resources.
Benefits
ACP has shown to increase staff and patron engagement across the entire collection. It maximises your circulation and minimises waiting. Best of all, once the demand has diminished; you can return them to us, and we will dispose of them sustainably.
Community Collection Manager
Why?
James Bennett’s Community Collection Manager works like a visual marketing tool for your library with pre-published publisher and media highlight titles. It integrated fully with your LMS, so patrons never have to leave your OPAC to view and recommend the cream of the crop of forthcoming titles across all genres.
Benefits
The Community Collection Manager engages your community directly and gets your patrons involved in the acquisition and decision process. This fantastic tool also supports request and reservation management, delivering total control over request selections, reservations and budgets.
Sustainability
We supply local and international titles to libraries in Australia and New Zealand, offering expert curation, professional Collection Strategy support and complete control over your acquisitions. James Bennett has a highly skilled team of subject specialists dedicated to learning your library’s unique requirements and supporting your acquisitions program by providing innovative solutions to the library industry; managing a long term profitable business; investing in our staff; promoting diversity and equal opportunity; minimising our carbon footprint; procuring products and services in a responsible way; and engaging with external stakeholders to commit to positive change.
The Sustainability Project
Why?
The James Bennett Sustainability Project (TSP) is a green initiative created to assist libraries in disposing of all weeded material. By working together in partnership, we have an opportunity for innovation in a way that sees us achieve stronger, healthier communities, reduce inequality, support literacy programs and achieve our global and personal sustainability goals.
Benefits
The Sustainability Project will help your library meet sustainability goals, place less books in landfill, help to redistribute and donate used titles, reduce costs, reclaim staff time, but most of all, receive greater transparency as to where your sustainable endeavours are going.
Bioguard 80
Why?
The world’s first FULLY biodegradable book covering, brought to you by Raeco, one of Australia’s most trusted and affordable book covering. Bioguard80 does not contain any microplastics and as stated previously, Bioguard80 will biodegrade once placed in the right landfill or compost environment. This also includes the backing paper.
Benefits
As Library professionals, we are constantly searching for ways to improve and meet Sustainability goals, and book coverings have always been one of the biggest challenges. No more! With similar properties and applications to Bookguard, this is your 100% recyclable solution.
