Eileen Baker Email and Phone Number

For more than 60 years, Worldwide Books has offered reliable collection development and acquisition services to libraries collecting strongly in the areas of art, architecture, photography and design. As a leading specialist in the selection and distribution of art exhibition catalogues and other books on art, Worldwide provides thorough and systematic coverage of titles from hundreds of museums and galleries throughout the world, while also offering comprehensive coverage of new art books from scores of the leading American trade and university presses. Responsibilities include: Head book buyer and selector for exhibition catalogue approval program servicing up to 125+ academic, public, and art research libraries mainly in North America. Manage acquisitions staff; select, review, and rank all new titles for standing order plans; systematically assign titles to pre-determined ranked plans based on relative art historical importance and monetary plan quotas; negotiate purchase terms with domestic and foreign vendors; efficiently and economically arrange and manage all logistics and bulk stock orders; company representative at over twenty art librarian conferences/trade fairs and sole company representative at multiple Frankfurt Book Fairs annually meeting with dozens of international artbook publishers and sales representatives; assist with marketing, customer service, serial claims and order management; maintain up to date knowledge of contemporary art world and monitoring trends in publishing. Implementing DEI initiatives in acquisition and selection processes for approval plan program; staff management/team leader; and responsible for international bank wires.

Systematically monitor the publishing activities of major museums, galleries, independent and commercial publishers primarily in North America and Europe; acquire in a timely manner single advance copies of newly released publications for examination and review; routine generation of purchase orders; claims; receiving and processing books, invoice preparation; online bibliographic research as well as regular communication by email and telephone with museums, galleries and foreign commercial publishers.

Extensive work with exhibition catalogue bibliographic record creation; design and maintain citation authority files, assist in curated collection development lists of back stock; data posting of all itinerant exhibitions on museum and vendor files; process all reorders of trade and university press stock for approval plan and selective firm order customers; as well as assist in various special projects.

Office management; administrative tasks; maintain membership database, event management; customer service.