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Patron Knows Best: Why We Should Put the Patron in
the Driver's Seat
Rick AndersonAssociate DirectorScholarly Resources & Collections
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Two Broad Categories of “Collection”
Unique/Curatorial (Special Collections) Orientation: Global
General/Functional (Circulating Collections) Orientation: Local
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Why Do We Build Collections?
Access Access Access
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How Do We Build Collections?
Guessing what patrons will want Buying documents based on those guesses Describing the documents (proxy docs) Organizing them
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Alternatives
Share. (Ugh.)
Books: expose [everything we can] and buy only when the patron points Ebooks (MyiLibrary, NetLibrary, EBL, Ebrary, etc.) Print books (LightningSource, OUP, etc.) Print books (Espresso Book Machine)
Journals: by-the-drink purchasing Remember: patrons don’t need journals; they need articles This is the opposite of the Big Deal: it’s the Tiny Deal Problem: publishers don’t want to sell that way
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The Unattainable Ideal (“North Star” Approach)
Every book ever published is easily and immediately findable
Any book ever published can be purchased by library for patron immediately upon realization of need (purchase or borrow)
Every article...
Every data set...
This ideal does not have to be attainable in order to be useful.
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Problems
Budget management
“Every book”? Come on.
What if they select garbage?
What about my job?
