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Using SFX to Facilitate Electronic Book Discovery

Using SFX to Facilitate Electronic Book Discovery. Anita Foster Head, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Milner Library, Illinois State University May 1, 2014. Topics. Philosophy How SFX Manages electronic books Workflows SFX Knowledgebase Issues Discovery Systems

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Using SFX to Facilitate Electronic Book Discovery

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  1. Using SFX to Facilitate Electronic Book Discovery Anita Foster Head, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Milner Library, Illinois State University May 1, 2014

  2. Topics • Philosophy • How SFX Manages electronic books • Workflows • SFX Knowledgebase Issues • Discovery Systems • Is it worth the effort? • Examples

  3. A little poll… • Your Library Catalog • WorldCat • Resource Discovery System • Other webpages (i.e., Libguides, pathfinders) • Link Resolver

  4. A little bit about Milner Library • Illinois State University • Almost 20,000 students • 5000 faculty and staff • Located in the center of Illinois • Milner • Nearly 82,000 electronic journals • 320,655 electronic monographs active in SFX • 217 active targets, 188 include monographs • 100,000 electronic books in the OPAC • Member of CARLI and Amigos consortia

  5. http://library.illinoisstate.edu/

  6. Why use SFX for electronic books? • Why Not? • Ranganathan’s Fourth Law • Multiple Points of Access • Impact of Local Practice • Can’t catalog every electronic book • Impact of New Discovery Options • Is the catalog still the first place users go to find electronic books?

  7. How SFX Manages Electronic Books • The same way as it does online journals • Differences: • “bkey” instead of “jkey” • Threshold is usually empty

  8. Databases • More books and book chapters exist in literature databases than you may think • 70,000 titles active as of April 7 • Activated in SFX at the same time as the database • All Book Databases • Same set up steps as other databases

  9. Discovery Systems • Online Catalogs • Do you catalog every electronic book for which your patrons have access? • Resource Discovery Systems (EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, Primo, etc.) • SFX links users to titles from one content provider to another • Electronic Book A-Z • Provides a way to discover uncatalogued electronic books without searching a database or discovery system

  10. A note about the eBook A to Z • Milner Library makes it available to users • Added to the library homepage August 2013 • Basic Search • Would anyone use it? • So far: • 528 requests, 505 clickthroughs

  11. Electronic Book A to Z

  12. Workflows

  13. Electronic Book Packages • When you buy every title in a collection • Sage Knowledge Encyclopedia collections • Project Muse Higher Education • Configuration process same as for journal packages • Title details are sent to the Cataloging Unit • If available, include links or information about obtaining vendor created records.

  14. Single title, Firm Orders

  15. Patron-driven Acquisitions • Background • First pilot Spring 2011 direct with Ebook Library (EBL) • Second pilot Spring 2012 used YBP as carrier • EBL still the aggregator • Pilot became regular program due to timing issues • Details (as of April 15): • 61,000 books active in the PDA • 553 books purchased through the program • 6200 unpurchased books used since April 2012

  16. Patron-driven Acquisitions • Setting It Up • SFX • Created a new target, EBOOK_LIBRARY_PDA_LCL for all titles active in the PDA • Staff use Dataloader for newly added titles • Voyager catalog • New titles added from MARC records files sent from YBP

  17. Patron-driven Acquisitions

  18. Patron-driven Acquisitions • Deleting Records • Unpurchased titles can be removed at any time from the PDA account • Monthly emails from EBL details any deletes • Dataloader is used to deactivate portfolios

  19. SFX Knowledgebase Issues • Delays • Available for purchase before title added to KB • No portfolio for a book in the target where it is purchased • “Messy” Data • Multiple records for the same title • Missing ISBNs

  20. Is it Worth the Effort? Yes!

  21. SFX andElectronic Book Discovery

  22. Where were users finding books? Data aggregated across all CARLI libraries

  23. Milner Library SFX Requests

  24. User Interaction

  25. For the Future • Investigate Google Scholar, electronic books and SFX • Improve the methodology used for updating the EBL PDA target for new titles • Streaming Media patron-driven acquisitions project

  26. Questions? • Contact Info: • akfoste@illinoisstate.edu

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