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Learning Resovtves Centre 2005 Resources Catalogue : www.lrc.education.gov.ab.ca ydlberra EDUCATION »#i niucuun icuyuicu yayvi Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Alberta Libraries http://archive.org/details/resourcescataloge05albe Learning Resources Centre 2005 Resources Catalogue www.lrc.education.gov.ab.ca 1 /Iberia EDUCATION ^Iberia Learning Resources Centre LEARNING Learning Resources Centre 12360 - 142 Street NW Telephone 780/427-2767 Edmonton, Alberta Fax780/422-9750 Canada T5L 4X9 www.lrc.learning.gov.ab.ca Presenting the 2005 Resources Catalogue! We are pleased to send you our 2005 Resources Catalogue! Our catalogue features up- to-date price and authorization status listings for thousands of learning resources that support Alberta's Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum. Our catalogue is updated regularly. You will find all of the latest additions to our catalogue, throughout the year, on our Web site: www.lrc.education.gov.ab.ca. We accept orders Online, by phone, by fax, or from walk-in customers at our facility in Edmonton. Regular shipping and handling is free within Alberta. Early Order Discount Plan ahead for the next school year! Order your resources between January 1 and April 30, 2005 and you can save 10% on roughly 4,500 publisher titles. Most other titles in our catalogue are eligible for an Early Order Discount of2.5%. By pooling customer orders in the early part of the year, we can place large discount orders with our suppliers in May. When you choose the Early Order Discount those savings are passed on to you! Your goods will arrive prior to the start ofthe 2005-2006 school year, and you will not be invoiced until you receive your order. Become an Online User Online ordering is fast and easy, and it's available to you 24 hours a day! To place an Online order,just visit our website at www.lrc.education.gov.ab.ca. Ordering is just one of the many benefits to using our Online Services. Become a registered user and gain instant access to information about your purchases (like delivery' status and backorder information), your invoices, and your grant status. To become a registered user, please email lrccustservftf gov.ab.ca. or call 780-427-2767 (to call toll-free, anywhere in Alberta, dial 310-0000 first). We would be happy to provide you with your unique Log In information, or to address any questions or concerns you may have. I CiPrintedon recycled paper $ fc The Early Order Discount (EOD) The Early Order Discount (formerly known as the Aggregate Order Discount or AOD) offers you the chance to plan ahead and save on next school year's learning resources. Apply the Early Order Discount to any order placed with the Learning Resources Centre between January 1 and April 30, 2005, and save from 2.5% to 10% on most items in our catalogue. The Early Order Discount is the result of cooperation between the Learning Resources Centre and eight major Canadian publishers. By pooling customer orders in the early part of the year, we can place large discount orders with our suppliers in May. Choose the Early Order Discount, and those savings are passed on to you! This year, our publishing partners have made roughly 4,500 resources eligible for a 10% Early Order Discount. Virtually all other items in our catalogue are eligible for a 2.5% discount. Delivery is scheduled for the start of the 2005-2006 school year. You will not be invoiced until you receive your shipment. Some Early Order Discount items are ready for Immediate Delivery! The Immediate Delivery of Early Order Discount purchases is a special offer available only while current supplies last. Please contact the Learning Resources Centre to request that your Early Order Discount purchase be shipped immediately if available. When entering an order Online you must click "EOD" from the Shop Cart function to qualify for Early Order Discount savings. When ordering by phone or fax, please specify that you are placing an Early Order. To place an Early Order, use our Online Shopping cart feature and click on the "EOD" button to ensure you save up to 10% off the regular selling price on eligible products. To place an Early Order by fax/phone, mark your purchase order as "Early Order Discount" or "EOD" to ensure you receive the discount. Browse our Resources Catalogue to compare Early Order Discount prices to our regular prices. Or, click on a logo to see which resources our publishing partners have made available for a 10% Early Order Discount! • • • LRC Special Order Service * Can't find the resource you need in our catalogue? With our Special Order Service we can source and price learning resources for you! What is a Special Order? A Special Order is a request for a resource that the LRC does not list in its Resources Catalogue for sale to AB or BC schools. If you represent a registered AB or BC school or school authority, and the resource you need is a current educational item of a type that the LRC would normally list, you can place a request for the resource through our Special Order Service. How does the Special Order Service work? The Customer provides the LRC with as much product information as possible. Once we determine that the request meets our order and eligibility requirements, we will contact the supplier for pricing and availability. In turn, we will contact the Customer with the price and will order the resource(s) only after receiving a commitment to purchase from the Customer, and with the understanding that LRC will not accept returns or order cancellations. Special Orders can only be placed via email or faxed-in orders; online ordering is not available. See below to print our Special Order Request Form. Rl To Order: • Complete a Special Order Request (print version available below) with the following minimum required information: Title, ISBN, and Publisher. o Publication Date, Author, and Edition, while not mandatory, are also helpful. o If the ISBN is not available, please provide the Edition and/or Publication Date. • There is no minimum dollar value per order, but LRC, at its discretion, encourages the school to make this order as large as possible, e.g. 3-5 titles. • LRC will not accept any cancellation or return of Special Order items, unless defective or shipped in error, and then only with LRC's prior knowledge and approval, as per LRC's Returns Policy. This stipulation is at the bottom of the Special Order Request form for your reference. • The resource must be a recent publication - where possible, published within the last 4 years - and still in print. • Special Order products are not eligible for any customer discounts, e.g. Early Order Discount. Resources not eligible for the Special Order Service include: • Library-type resources, e.g. novels. With thousands of novels available in the market today and companies that deal exclusively with novels, LRC is not in a position to order these under this service. • Little Books, i.e. multiple components/storybooks/little books of a series, e.g. Early Literacy. This is due to hundreds to choose from and existing agreements with vendors that LRC list and sell only series package components. • Resources currently under review by Curriculum, those rejected after curricular review, and any resource that would not be consider a Basic Student type resource. • Any title that cannot be sourced from a supplier. How long will a Special Order take? A Special Order request may take 4-6 weeks to research, order and receive stock from a Canadian vendor, and then ship to the Customer. The more information the Customer provides on the initial request, the sooner LRC can order and deliver the resource. While orders may take less time, they can also take longer because: • The resource is out of stock at the publisher or distributor (in reprint, etc.), • The resource may need to be ordered and shipped from a U.S. or other foreign publisher/supplier, • Some publishers have a minimum order requirement that exceeds the Customer's needs. How much will a resource cost through the Special Order Service? We will research the resource's cost and advise the Customer of the final selling price. We will not release the order to the vendor until the Customer approves the final selling price.