The State Library of Kansas has negotiated an arrangement with LYRASIS that provides new purchasing discounts to replace those formerly provided through BCR. Kansas libraries with budgets under $200,000 may use almost all LYRASIS services, and all Kansas libraries will be eligible to use the LYRASIS vendor discounts. A detailed list of these discount rates, including some additional discounts that NEKLS has negotiated, are available on the NEKLS web site at http://www.nekls.org/nekls-services/discounts-group-purchasing/
This also means that libraries with budgets under $200,000 (and many larger libraries) have no reason to respond to the membership solicitations that LYRASIS has continued to send to Kansas libraries). To be clear: unless your library has a budget higher than $200,000 and considers that services of LYRASIS other than vendor discounts justify the membership fee, we advise you to ignore any membership solicitation or invoice from LYRASIS.
Jim Minges is the Director of NEKLS. You can reach him by email (jminges (at) nekls.org) or by phone. Visit the 
