Moving Materials - Physical Delivery in Libraries

Valerie Horton became the first director of the Colorado Library Consortium, a statewide provider of courier service, continuing education, cooperative purchase, and other library support services, in November 2004. She was previously director of the Mesa State College library and head of systems at New Mexico State University. During her tenure in New Mexico, Valerie received an ALA International Fellowship and spent a year in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, where she consulted with the Office of the Prime Minister on automating the country’s public, school, and government libraries. She started her professional career as a systems librarian at Brown University after graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1984..

Sarah Long's podcast:
Will Digitization Damper Physical Delivery or Send it Skyrocketing? Interview with Valerlie Horton. Part of interview is on this book.

Bruce Smith is the delivery services coordinator for the South Central (Wisconsin) Library System (SCLS), which provides service to its fifty-two member libraries in seven counties and also serves as the primary statewide library delivery service for the Wisconsin Libraries’ Delivery Network. Previous to his fourteen years at SCLS, Bruce spent six years in the transportation business in the areas of building supply, grocery, and expedited package delivery.