Books from Hungary

SERVICES FOR LIBRARIANS
SINCE 1997

DEAR LIBRARIAN,

thank you for visiting our web page!

Our company has been supplying books to libraries around the world for more than twenty years. Working with us means you are in direct contact with almost all Hungarian book wholesalers and retailers, as well as with all Hungarian publishers and several dozen bookstores and second-hand bookshops. We also have personal contacts with the Hungarian universities and scientific institutions, museums and art galleries in Budapest and throughout the country. As a result, you can order all the books you need from a single source: you don't have to find either the publishers or the booksellers of every book in Hungary individually (there aren't any that could supply all of the books anyway): we will find for you the book ordered, regardless of whether it is a new release, it is not available in normal bookshops or it has long been sold out (out of print).

Our special services for the libraries

fulfilment of firm orders

fulfilment of standing and continuation orders

fulfilment of subscriptions for periodicals

book deliveries on approval plan

duplication prevention

book search

shipment collection

special information for librarians

Firm Orders
Our customers are welcome to place firm orders by e-mail to our e-mail address: bouchal(at)bouchal.hu. If requested , your orders will then be printed and enclosed to the books sent.
or by letters sent to our postal address:

     Bouchal Ltd
     P.O.B. 147.
     H-1605 Budapest
     Hungary

Standing and Continuation Orders - Subscriptions
We accept standing and continuation orders for publications published in Hungary. We register the order and send the next volume of the book or series automatically as soon as it is published. We accept subscriptions as well for periodicals, weekly or monthly newspapers and special publications.

Book Approval Plans
For libraries that obtain monographs for their collection from around the world, we recommend our book delivery under the Approval Plan agreement. Our librarian partner does not have to deal with Hungarian book publishing, nor does he need to know the Hungarian language: according to the detailed instructions we received, our company purchases the books after publication and automatically sends them to the library address in a collection package.

We accept two types of Approval Plans:

Simple Approval Plan.
Using this service, libraries automatically receive monographs according to the specifications listed in their profile as soon as the books is published. We accept also approval plans for shipping intervals determined by the library for a designated amount of money.

Combined Approval Plan.
We send regular, monthly information (recommendations) on new books: this allows the librarians to check their needs as well as their actual financial capabilities before ordering the books.

Duplication Prevention
Bouchal Ltd. always search your library's OPAC prior to shipping approval plan materials to prevent duplication. We normally notify clients of their duplicate orders before completing each shipment.

Book search
Any book published in any year on the territory of Hungary can be ordered. Recently published books will be shipped within a few days, all other books will be shipped within the time that they can be purchased from any source in Hungary - we search for the source, buy the book and ship it as soon as possible. We always continue searching for the books that are not available at all and send it if our search will eventually be successful. We record all orders and fulfill them until this seems possible - we never stop looking for the book until our client is still waiting for it.

Shipment collection
In case of an approval plan or if have received fix orders for more books, we collect the ordered books instead of sending them one by one: these books will be sent in larger packages up to a maximum of twenty kilograms for save shipping cost.

Shipping
Our book packages are shipped very carefully in a special thick cardboard material made especially for our company, ensuring that the books remain in their original condition when delivered. Each package includes the invoice and order slips (if any) attached to the books

Bouchal Ltd. offers free detailed information on all books published in Hungary

Our firm offers free up-to-date information on all recently published books in Hungary on selected topics that may be of interest to libraries (Hungarica materials on history, politics, sociology, linguistics, law, reference books, etc., and also fiction ): and we compile lists to send to our partners by email for free in PDF. In these lists we also provide the translation into your language of all academic titles for our partners who do not speak the Hungarian language.

Thank you for reading our introduction: we are looking forward to receiving your orders for books, periodicals or your regular shipping order on approval plan.

BOUCHAL Ltd. Budapest, Hungary