Blue Fountain is your trusted partner for providing books to international schools in China. We deliver your books catalogued, processed and shelf-ready, to your library’s standards, for English and Chinese books alike.
Our cataloguing and processing service is available for the books you order from Blue Fountain.
How it works
- Your list. Send us your list of titles, or let us build one with you, based on your curriculum and collection development plan.
- Your books. We supply the books you have chosen.
- Your standards. We catalogue and process every book to your specifications.
- Ready to circulate. Your books arrive shelf-ready, by call number or genre, and we send their MARC records by email and help you with the upload.
New school openings
Blue Fountain has extensive experience in new school openings. We can help you with:
- Customized material lists based on your curriculum and collection development plan.
- Cataloguing and processing personalized to your specifications.
- Timely and accurate delivery of your books.
Cataloguing
Our MARC records work with the most widely used library systems, such as Destiny and Oliver, and you choose from simple customization options that suit your library:
- We can create or upgrade MARC records according to your requirements.
- We can map item records to the tags and subfields that you need.
- We can modify CN MARC records for your Chinese books.
- We can format local call numbers as you wish.
Processing
Blue Fountain’s processing service uses Demco supplies to ensure the durability and longevity of your books.
- We can apply spine labels and barcode labels as per your request.
- We can protect labels with label protectors.
- We can cover dust jackets with Mylar.
Browse the books and library supplies in our catalogue, or contact us to learn more about our full library service.
