Florida Library Delivery Diana Sachs-Silveira Tampa Bay Library Consortium
What is Delivery? The statewide service provides delivery materials to 225 sites in Florida. Delivery is part of the FEL, program and is supported in part by LSTA dollars Libraries pay by the number of ‘stops’ a week not by the number or size of items.
Benefits to Delivery Supports Resource Sharing & ILL Power of the Network Billing By “Stops” Encourages Sharing Fast Delivery Ease of Handling
From Library to Library Library ‘Bags’ item Velocity picks up and delivers to hub Sent to receiving hub Sent to library Processed and given to user Sent back to owning library ORL TLH JAX TPA GVL MIA FMY
Statistics 329,173 - Orange Bags moved by the vendor 526,677 – Estimated number of items moved if each bag averages 1.6 items Participating library locations 43,160 - Number of deliveries made by the vendor 49 – Number of items lost or damaged and paid for by the vendor
Quick Quiz What do the three letters in the right-hand corner of the Delivery label mean? When can you report a missed stop? When can you report a missing item? Is Delivery service available on the weekends?
Delivery Contact Info 3 ways to contact us with issues: Stay involved by joining the Delivery Mailing