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 20 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.

Overview

HRLC is coordinating the second year of a group project for purchasing subscriptions to NextReads. 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 year’s 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:

• Bloomingdale Public Library
• Clarence Dillon Public Library (Bedminster)
• Glen Rock Public Library
• Hunterdon County Library
• Palisades Park Public Library
• Paramus Public Library
• Phillipsburg Public Library
• Ridgewood Public Library
• Rutherford Public Library
• Somerset County Library
• Warren County Library
• Long Hill Township

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).

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 service on November 30, 2007 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.
• 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 Two cost makes the library eligible to participate fully in the project. The Library agrees to pay HRLC the full amount of Year Two costs by October 31, 2007. Please make check payable to HRLC.

Click here to open Letter of Agreement (Year 2)  

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 15, 2007.
Deadline for Payment is October 31, 2007.

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