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AGENDA ITEM
July 8, 2014
TO: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Council
THRU: John W. Sibley
City Manager
FROM: Yolanda Moreno
Library Services Director
ReviewedNerifi By:
City Manager
Finance Directo'
To Be Presente . Yolanda Moreno
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1. SUBJECT
Purchase of print materials for Orange Public Library facilities from Baker & Taylor, Inc., in the
amount of $80,000.
2. SUMMARY
This is a request for City Council authorization of a $80,000 purchase order with Baker &
Taylor, Inc., for print materials (i.e., books) for the Orange Public Library & History Center and
the Taft and El Modena branch libraries.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
Authorize purchase of print materials for Orange Public Library facilities from Baker & Taylor,
Inc., in the amount of $80,000.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
Sufficient funds exist in the following accounts:
100.2001.53301.00000 — Library Books - $80,000
5. STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL(S)
3. Enhance and promote quality of life in the community
b. Deliver high quality and safe recreational, social, environmental, educational and cultural
services.
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1 6. GENERAL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Cultural Resources Element Goal 5 : Meet the educational, cultural, civic, information,
recreation, business, and life -long learning needs of residents through the provision of library
resources.
Policy 5.1: Continue to expand, coordinate and modernize the City's public library system,
ensuring that it becomes the premier information and learning resource for the City to meet
the needs of Orange's growing and diverse population.
7. DISCUSSION and BACKGROUND
As the vendor with the largest inventory and widest selection of titles in the USA, Baker &
Taylor is capable of providing a wide variety of library materials sought by Orange Public
Library to meet the interests and needs of City users.
Baker & Taylor has demonstrated the highest "fill rate" of any library materials vendor in
providing the titles ordered, according to the professional literature.
Baker & Taylor provides Orange Public Library with volume discounts and minimal shipping
costs, on terms that are as good as any that staff has been able to determine are being provided to
other libraries.
8. ATTACHMENTS
None.
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