CHOICE Reviews available through Baker & Taylor's Content Café
Contact: Irving Rockwood
860-347-6933
irockwood@ala-choice.org
Sam Dempsey
704-329-9015
sam.Dempsey@informata.com
For Immediate Release
July 2002
CHOICE Reviews available through Baker & Taylor's Content Café
CHOICE Magazine, the leading academic review journal, has partnered with Baker & Taylor, a global supplier of books, videos, music and services to public, school and academic libraries, to offer its full text reviews through The Content Café, Baker & Taylor's new enriched content library service.
"We are delighted to announce this newest partnership with Baker & Taylor," said Irving Rockwood, CHOICE editor and publisher. "Making CHOICE reviews available for inclusion in library OPACs has been a major objective here at CHOICE for the past several years.
"As we ultimately realized, the task was too large for CHOICE to tackle alone," Rockwood continued. "The solution has proven to be partnerships with experienced and reliable vendors like Baker & Taylor. We believe this is a win-win situation, one that is good for CHOICE, for Baker & Taylor, and for our many mutual customers. The ultimate winners, of course, are library patrons, especially the patrons of academic libraries who are CHOICE's core customers. We are delighted that they and other library patrons will now have access to CHOICE reviews through The Content Café."
The Content Café provides access to an extensive database of enriched bibliographic information. Currently consisting of almost 1.5 million full-size and thumbnail jacket art images, comprehensive tables of contents, and now a wide range of full text reviews, it integrates seamlessly with a library's Integrated Library System. The Content Café enables libraries to deliver this enriched content directly to their patrons via existing systems at an attractive, economical and cost-effective price.
About CHOICE Magazine
Founded in 1964, CHOICE Magazine publishes definitive reviews of current scholarly and electronic products. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 concise, critical, expert reviews of recent books and electronic sources in more than 50 disciplines spanning the humanities, science and technology, and the social and behavioral sciences. CHOICE is a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
About Baker & Taylor / YBP Library Services
Baker & Taylor, Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., is a global information and entertainment services company that supplies books, videos, music and services to libraries, traditional and Internet retailers, and educational institutions. YBP Library Services, a leading supplier of books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic libraries, is a Baker & Taylor company.
