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Patron-Driven Acquisitions

2014-01-02 Business & Economics
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Release : 2014-01-02
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Patron-Driven Acquisitions by : Judith M. Nixon

Download or read book Patron-Driven Acquisitions written by Judith M. Nixon. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary loan. These books had one circulation guaranteed and so appealed to librarians who were concerned about the large percentage of books selected and purchased by librarians but never checked out by their patrons. Early assessments of the projects indicated that patrons selected quality books that in many cases were cross disciplinary and covered emerging areas of scholarly interest. However, now we have a significant database of the ILL purchase records to compare these titles with books selected through normal methods. The projects described in this book present a powerful argument for involving patrons in the book selection process. This book looks at patron-driven acquisitions for printed books at Purdue University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Illinois, as well as exploring new programs that allow patrons to select e-books or participate in other innovative ways in building the library collections. This book was published as a special issue of Collection Management.

Patron-Driven Acquisitions

2011-10-27 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2011-10-27
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Patron-Driven Acquisitions by : David A. Swords

Download or read book Patron-Driven Acquisitions written by David A. Swords. This book was released on 2011-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three times. By contrast, patron-driven acquisition allows a library to borrow or buy books only when a patron needs them. In a typical workflow, the library imports bibliographic records into its catalogue at no cost. When a patron finds a patron-driven record in the course of research, a short-term loan can allow him to borrow the book, and the transaction charge to the library will be a small percentage of the list price. Typically, a library will automatically buy a book on a third or fourth use. The contributions in this volume, written by experts, describe the genesis and brief history of patron-driven acquisitions, its current status, and its promise.

Academic E-Books

2015-11-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2015-11-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Academic E-Books by : Suzanne M. Ward

Download or read book Academic E-Books written by Suzanne M. Ward. This book was released on 2015-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users’ experiences with scholarly works.

Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century

2018-01-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2018-01-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century by : Susan K. Kendall

Download or read book Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century written by Susan K. Kendall. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century is intended for those with any level of experience in health sciences collection management. This book from the authoritative Medical Library Association starts with the context of health sciences publishing and covers the foundations of selection, budgeting, and management. It won’t tell new librarians what to buy but will give them background and criteria that should go into their selections. However, the focus of this book is not only on best practices but also on the big picture and the deeper changes in the field that affect decision making. Subjects not always covered in many collection development textbooks such marketing or accessibility are included because they are part of the larger collections landscape. Chapter contributors bring their own perspectives to the topics. Stories of different libraries’ experiences bring interesting topics to the forefront in practical, specific, and timely detail. While whole books have been written that go into some of these topics more in depth on their own, the treatment of each topic here focuses on the unique perspective and concerns of the collection manager.

Guide to Implementing and Managing Patron-driven Acquisitions

2012 Patron-driven acquisitions (Libraries)
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Release : 2012
Genre : Patron-driven acquisitions (Libraries)
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Book Synopsis Guide to Implementing and Managing Patron-driven Acquisitions by : Suzanne M. Ward

Download or read book Guide to Implementing and Managing Patron-driven Acquisitions written by Suzanne M. Ward. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the history of library services that led to patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) in its current form. The author explains how PDA can be an important component of a successful collection development strategy in many kinds of libraries.

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