Dear Librarian, 

Following the introduction of duties on imports to the US, we would like to address any concerns you may have regarding future shipments of books to your library. 

While print material is exempt from tariffs, we are aware that there has been confusion among some shipping agents. 

We would like to assure you that we have a consolidated and longstanding partnership with a freight-forwarder based in New Jersey and we have not encountered any difficulties thus far.  

Although we do not expect our shipments to be affected by the changes, we will of course continue to carefully monitor the situation and will let our customers know should there be any updates.  

We invite you to contact us with any questions or comments regarding our shipments, or for any further assistance.

Our companies share a single vision: to provide the very best services, partnering libraries through evolutions in all areas of the scholarly communications industry.

Casalini Libri, Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel and @Cult pledge their continued commitment to libraries, accompanying traditional, core services with investment in new, flexible and sustainable ways of providing access to academic publishing from all over the world.

Leading providers of publications, bibliographic data and knowledge management solutions, together we focus on providing the best possible services to libraries, steered solely by our long-standing and close ties with the international library community and in line with their evolving needs.

Firmly rooted in our joint mission to disseminate European academic publishing to libraries around the world, to advocate for libraries and to create innovative tools that facilitate access to knowledge:

• we continue to supply books and journals in print format, providing expert collection development support across all disciplines and tailoring resources to the library’s shelf-ready preferences.
• we support libraries through all aspects of selecting, acquiring and accessing digital publications, to make collection development, discovery, and everything in between as simple and streamlined as possible, with flexible selection tools and acquisitions models tailored to each library’s individual requirements, including permanent access, single title purchasing and PDA models. 
• we maintain our commitment to timely and quality bibliographic data and to the development of new solutions for information management and knowledge sharing, supporting innovative, collaborative andsustainable approaches to cataloguing environments and knowledge sharing.

With over 150 years of collective experience, our well-established relations with publishers, knowledge of individual markets and constant contact with the territories we cover mean we are ideally placed and equipped to source any print publication, allowing libraries to consolidate orders for all titles with confidence, regardless of language, format and subject area.

Thanks to our very own digital library platform, which hosts content from over 580 academic publishers, we are able to negotiate on behalf of libraries, representing their voice with academic publishers, to ensure vast digital collections and a full range of services for academic libraries.

Driven by the determination to anticipate the changing needs of the market, we work side by side with the international library community to define and develop tools that ensure the integrity and authority of bibliographical data and to forward the practical implementation of BIBFRAME and linked open data for libraries.

We know that all libraries and all collections are unique, which is why we believe that libraries themselves are best placed to steer our activities, according to real-life requirements. Our common aim in this new eco-system of academic publishing is to continue to partner and facilitate libraries in sustaining and promoting access to scholarship for their patrons and serving new generations of the international research community.

Michele Casalini
Chief Executive of Casalini Libri

This update is part of our ongoing commitment to better serve our global community. Italian-speaking users can now easily navigate and access all of our content in their preferred language by selecting Italian from the language options. Benvenuti!

We’re glad to announce a new collaboration with Editis Group for the Torrossa platform. In the near future we will start adding eBooks from 72 French publishers, including prestigious publishers such as Dalloz, La Découverte, Perrin, Robert Laffont, CNRS éditions and First Édition

Earlier this week Cambridge University Press (CUP) experienced a cybersecurity incident that has affected their IT systems. This will cause a delay in the supply of orders. CUP has indicated that they will not be able to supply books in the coming three weeks. We will provide you with updates as they are made available.

Please find here the official statement from CUP:

Cambridge University Press & Assessment has experienced a cybersecurity incident

We were able to respond to this incident quickly and took immediate action to contain it and limit its impact. As part of this action, we have had to take some of our systems offline as a precautionary measure and are working to restore these as quickly as possible.

Most customer-facing platforms remain live and there has been no impact on the current exam series.

We are also aware that a group has claimed that data related to our organisation has been published online, and we are working to verify this claim. We are continuing to investigate with the support of external experts and the relevant authorities, including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre.

Our investigation into what happened remains ongoing and the experts we are working with have advised that it will take some time to complete owing to its complexity. We will provide further updates as soon as we can.

https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/technical-incident