[Editors] MIT Editors' Club Minutes, 2/22/2006

[Elizabeth Thomson]

MIT EDITORS' CLUB

*Meeting Notes from February 22, 2006*

The Publishing Services Bureau recently whittled the number of print 
vendors used by MIT from 240 (!!) to a preferred set of 11. At this 
meeting of MIT Editors' Club, the PSB team behind the effort 
explained the evaluation process they went through to reach that 
number, and the
benefits of the program to the community.

Among other advantages, for example, funneling existing print dollars 
to fewer vendors saves time and money. A PSB analysis found that 
using only these 11 vendors could save the Institute about a half 
million dollars.

I personally was interested in the breakdown of the top 20 print 
buyers at MIT. The top 5? The Sloan School, Resource Development, the 
Alumni Association, Admissions, and the Division of Student Live. The 
top print buyers from among academic depts./labs/etc.? Architecture 
(ranked 9), the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and 
Technology (11), the Plasma Science & Fusion Center (13), the 
Research Lab of Electronics (14) and the Picower Center for Learning 
and Memory (15).

The following web site, launched earlier this month, has LOTS of 
additional information and resources about MIT's 11 preferred print 
vendors and the Purchasing Initiative
<http://web.mit.edu/smartbuy>http://web.mit.edu/smartbuy. You can 
also download today's presentation from that site. (Click on 
Resources, then Purchasing Initiative Downloadables. The document you 
are looking for is called "Process, External Print Vendor Evaluation."

Editors' Club meetings for the remainder of the semester are as
follows. All meetings are from 12-1 in the News Office (11-400).

Tuesday, March 21
Thursday, April 13
Tuesday, May 16
Wednesday, June 21

Cheers,

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

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