NextReads is a subscription email service developed by the creators of NoveList. With NextReads, you'll expand fiction and nonfiction readers' advisory services beyond the walls of your library, and beyond the bestsellers. NextReads provides 23 monthly and bimonthly lists for library customers, including both fiction and nonfiction genre coverage, plus two lists created just for library staff. All lists carry your library's branding and are easily customizable to your needs, holdings, and customer tastes.
For a more detailed description, go to http://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/default.php?id=6

Overview

HRLC is coordinating the fourth year of a group project for purchasing subscriptions to NextReads. We are pleased to announce that NextReads will not be increasing the fees! Your library’s base fee for the year will be $550, with an additional fee of $25/1000 library card holders. This is a negotiated discount for participating in the project and the same price as the first three years of this contract. A minimum of 10 HRLC libraries are needed to sustain this project. Go to www.nextreads.com to sign up for your own trial subscription and to get more information.

The HRLC members currently participating are:

• Bernards Township Library
• Clarence Dillon Public Library (Bedminster)
• Clifton Public Library
• Glen Rock Public Library
• Long Hill Township
• Paramus Public Library
• Phillipsburg Public Library
• Ridgewood Public Library
• Somerset County Library
• Warren County Library

With NextReads your library can proactively reach out to your customers and remind them monthly of the great books you have for them. Don’t let your customers forget you! You can post the newsletters on your website, too, and link the books to your catalog. (You need a web-based catalog to take advantage of this program).

Interested in joining the project? You can speak with Mary Martin of Long Hill Township Public Library, who will be happy to share her experience. You can contact her at 908-647-2088 or director@longhilllibrary.org.

Highlands Regional Library Cooperative Responsibilities:

• The Highlands Regional Library Cooperative (HRLC) will coordinate the project and payment to NextReads on behalf of the participants.
• HRLC agrees to provide participants the opportunity annually to continue participation in the project or to discontinue participation.

Participant Responsibilities:

• The Library agrees to participate in the HRLC NextReads Initiative.
• The Library agrees on the timeframe for the project which is projected to begin/renew service on November 30, 2009 for a 12-month period.
• The Library agrees to pay the discounted console fee of $550 and the discounted rate of $25 per 1000 library card holders. Note: this is an annual fee and third year costs have not increased.
• The Library agrees to communicate the availability of Next Reads newsletters with a link on the Library's home page, through other communications mechanisms and through printed PR provided by HRLC.
• The Library agrees to use the capability provided to link titles recommended in NextReads Online Newsletters to the library’s web-based catalog. Note: There is flexibility to use a mix of NextReads and locally selected titles.
• The Library agrees to adhere to the policies determined jointly by HRLC and group participants.
• The Library agrees to participate in an evaluation of this project.

How to Participate

A signed letter of agreement and payment in full of Year Three cost makes the library eligible to participate fully in the project. Highlands Regional Library Cooperative (HRLC) is the fiscal agent for this project. The Library agrees to pay HRLC the full amount of Year Four costs by October 30, 2009.
(Please make check payable to HRLC.)

Click here to open Letter of Agreement (Year 4)  
(http://www.hrlc.org/nextreads/loa_year4.pdf)

Send letter of agreement and payment to:

HRLC Office, 400 Morris Ave, Suite 202, Denville, NJ 07834
Phone: 973-664-1776 or 800-638-4752, Fax: 973-664-1780

Deadline for Commitment is August 17, 2009.
Deadline for Payment is October 30, 2009.

Some questions and answers from information sessions in other regions. Thanks to INFOLINK and CJRLC:

Q&A from June 1, 2006 Meeting:	.doc  |	.pdf
Q&A from June 20, 2006 Meeting:	.doc  |	.pdf