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PATRON DRIVEN ACQUISITIONS @ MACEWANRichard Hayman & Sandy StiftGrant MacEwan University
Library
Alberta Library Conference28 April 2012
Overview
Collection Management Rationale Implementation Logistics Outcomes Budgeting Challenges
Collection Development Assessment method Analysis Findings ConclusionsFuture Directions
Collection ManagementRichard Croft, http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/1904,
CC BY-SA 2.0
Collection Management:Rationale
Why PDA @ MacEwan Expand collection with new
ebooks Patron discovery before
purchase
Collection Management:Implementation
Selecting a vendor Coutts Library
Services
Developing a profile LC class & subject
parameters Non-subject
parameters Price
Collection Management:Logistics
Funding a deposit account $22,000 for pilot project
Loading content MARC records for initial 6000 titles Additional records loaded monthly Catalogue record does not indicate anything
unusual about these titles
Collection Management:Logistics
Collection Management:Logistics
What triggers a purchase?
Content must be viewed twice Beyond ebook
description and ToC Content viewed once
only? Free!
Collection Management:Logistics
Collection Management:Outcomes
Purchases 541 purchased titles (April 2011) 1193 purchased titles (April 2012)
Free use 572 free single use titles (April 2011) 1448 free single use titles (April
2012)
Collection Management:Outcomes
Books are being used, repeatedly!
High: 899 uses (atypical) Low: 2 uses
Average: 6 uses Median: 3 uses
Collection Management:Outcomes
And more… Average # of pages viewed per
title: 91 High: 4045 pages Low: 2 pages
Collection Management:Outcomes
Are we victims of our own success? Some subject areas purchased more
than others Ran out of money, 3 times in first year
alone! Find other funds to complete the pilot
Collection Management:Budgeting
Some budget numbers for 2012: Average expenditure: $4800/month
Vendor anticipated $2500-3000 Feb. 2012: already expended $43,000
budgeted for 2011/12 March 2012: $54,102 spent Year end: June 30, 2012
Collection Management:Budgeting
What happens if we overspend again in 2012/13?
Tighten profile Reduce maximum price Reduce maximum number of titles purchased
Counterintuitive? These titles are being used.
Collection Management:Challenges
Acquisitions Discovered MARC records did not ID
purchased vs unpurchased titles NEOS now: shared catalogue
Can’t have holdings added to unpurchased title records
Now manually remove PDA flags from MARC records for purchased titles
Collection Management:Challenges
Selection Patron Plan titles appear in our primary
selection tool Selectors want to purchase (print or ebook)
Could open title twice to trigger purchase Librarians concern re disappearing records
If unpurchased title goes O/P, then what?
Collection Management:Challenges
Maintenance Duplicate title records if book is in
catalogue within and outside of Patron Select plan
When (and how) do you weed? Can we add new title records indefinitely?
Collection DevelopmentGlenn Fleishman,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennf/4309829213, CC BY 2.0
Collection DevelopmentMethod
What can we tell our liaison librarians about…
what subject areas are popular? Unpopular? how much are we buying (and spending) in
key areas? what we are missing?
Collection DevelopmentMethod
Model Primarily a collection-centred approach
Vendor data for examining purchases Some client-centred analysis
Vendor data for examining use
High-level analysis Relies on primary LC classification onlySee: Sivak, A., & Hayman, R. (2011). Interdisciplinary collection assessment model. In S. Hiller, K. Justh, M. Kyrillidou, & J. Self (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Library Assessment Conference (pp. 663-676). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
Collection DevelopmentMethod
Purchase ≠ Use 1193 purchased titles Sept. 2010 − Apr. 2012
(two hits trigger purchase)
Use = purchased titles where hits ≥ 3 At least one other legitimate user after purchase 783 is new total
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentMethod (again)
Collection areas identified by LC classification
B (excl. BF) Philosophy & Religion BF Psychology D-F Classics & History H-HJ Business & Economics HM-HX Sociology J Political Science L Education P Language and Literature Q Natural Sciences R Health Sciences
Valdes & Rauber, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Call_numbers-----use.gif, CC BY 3.0
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection DevelopmentAnalysis
Collection Management:Analysis
Case studyHistory: What’s missing?
Collection Management:Analysis
What’s missing? FC > Canadian History
Why? Our liaison librarian is that good There are no ebooks in this
subject area No ebooks on this platform
Collection Management:Analysis
FC > Canadian History Canadian convention (LAC) LCC uses F1001-F1144 Our vendor is US based
Result: We need to revisit our profile with the vendor
Only 1 purchased title, 14 unpurchased titles
Future DirectionsNick Koudis, http://
www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/projection-of-circuitry-on-a-book-royalty-free-image/AA019919
Future directions
Using PDA to compensate for titles lost from elsewhere
Force university press titles removed from another ebook subscription package into our Patron Select profile
Future directions
Big Questions How to manage PDA across multiple vendors? How much of our collections budget can be (or
should be) allocated for PDA? Is PDA the future of collection development, or
just a trend?
Thank you
Richard [email protected]
Sandy [email protected]
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