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The Library Bound Brand Is Defined Through:
- Providing excellence in collection development services to ensure high circulation and patron satisfaction
- Maintaining collection development services through a comprehensive array of automatic release programs (ARPs), Approval Plans (APs), seasonal Bestseller Lists and numerous weekly and monthly Collection Development Lists
- Offering diversification by providing all print and A/V products including digital media
- Introducing innovative concepts through the use of technological advancement that will support the fundamental elements of public library purchasing
- Providing exceptional customer service and being responsive to the Library’s needs and feedback
- Providing quality service at a fair and competitive price
- Ensuring LBI is an exceptional extension of a Library's technical service unit
- Offering a seamless integration of our procedures with each of our client Libraries
- Ensuring absolute compliance with all import and copyright regulations
- Being the sole sponsor of the OLA and BCLA Readers Advisory Programs
- Being the Official Library Wholesaler for Telling Tales, an award winning Children’s Literacy Festival
- Supporting local Library community events and programs
- Maintaining competitive pricing through industry awareness
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Library Bound is proud to provide library material acquisitions, cataloguing and customized processing to Canadian public libraries.
Our full range of services include:
- The industry’s most comprehensive bestseller catalogues
- The widest selection of Automatic Release Programs, including flexible and fully customizable plans in over 40 categories for children and adults
- Canada’s leading Multilingual program, offering print and audiovisual material in 29 languages
- The industry’s broadest selection of DVD and Blu-ray material, including the latest Hollywood hits, television favourites, Canadian and independent cinema, foreign films, documentaries, and instructional titles
- Video game selection services from the first wholesaler to offer games to Canadian libraries
- Unique and innovative cataloguing and processing services for all media types, including customized Smart Covers and Smart Barcodes
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Library Bound is Canada’s largest wholesaler solely dedicated to serving the needs of public libraries. For more than thirty years, our committed and experienced staff have been striving to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for the changing needs of Canadian libraries. In order to maximize the speed and efficiency of our service to our customers nationally we operate two full service facilities (acquisitions, cataloguing and processing) in Waterloo, ON and Vancouver, BC. We are the only Canadian library wholesaler managing two full service operations across the country.