All our Booklists are available to download. They provide lots of information, should you wish to select your own titles.
Do you use CollectionHQ or Bertram's Engage? We love to review Check-Out Statistics to see how are books are doing.
Is your New Library about to be unveiled? Need large amounts of Quality Stock in the Shortest time? We are here for you.
We can help you find new books, out-of-print books, rare books, or even used books. If your reader wants it, we work hard to source it.
We welcome Libraries to visit Books Asia in Bradford. You can view our stock profile, meet the team, and discuss your requirements.
Business
Our office is located near Bradford City Football Ground. Once you are off the M62 and M606, follow the signs to the Town Centre. As you approach the Town Centre you will see signs for the football ground. Just follow these signs and you'll be at our office in about 5 minutes. Once you get to Manningham Lane, we are opposite Machine Mart.
We are located a short walk from either of Bradford's train stations. We are a 5 minute walk from Bradford Forster Square Station (your easiest option). Or a 10-15 minute walk from Bradford Interchange Station.
Books Asia Ltd
Here's a selection of questions we are often asked when a new Library considers joining Books Asia. To view the answers, simply click on the questions.
Yes, eBooks are available for European and Chinese material. For Indic material, the larger publishers are currently creating content, and we hope to add a few titles to our catalogue by the end of 2014. We are in the process of reviewing licensing and platform options - it's likely to be 3Q-2015 before eBooks are a standard addition to the Books Asia portfolio.
All our Marc Records are created in-house by experienced Cataloguers with 'book in hand'. We cross reference Authority data against OCLC and Publisher Databases where available. Our Marc records are accurate and comprehensive, containing upto 35 tags. We are reputed as having the best quality foreign-language Marc records in the industry.
Not at the moment. However, we are currently developing a solution (Unicode formatted Marc records). We hope to introduce Native Script Alternate Tags (for Author and Title) in 2015. We will initially introduce this for Chinese and Arabic, as these are the languages currently being requested for Native Script support.
No - whether your annual foreign-languages budget is £1000 or £100,000 we would be delighted to implement EDI with your library. No matter the budget, EDI is a 'win-win' for everybody concerned. We encourage all our libraries to 'go-EDI' with Books Asia. There is no charge for our EDI implementation or support.
It helps to build a better relationship if you can put a face to the name, so here's a photo and a few words about the core team.
In addition to our core team, we also maintain a pool of specialists to cover our spectrum of languages. They are on-call for transliteration, and also to assist with servicing during our busiest periods. We are always looking for avid readers to join our team of language specialists - if you would like to be part of the Books Asia team, please submit your CV to
