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Patron Driven Acquisitions

Patron Driven Acquisitions. Ready, Fire, Aim. Liberty University. Private university founded in 1971 Carnegie Classification: Master’s L Fall 2010 FTE: 43,000 12,000 residential / 31,000 online Teaching university – largest graduate programs Education, Counseling, Seminary

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Patron Driven Acquisitions

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  1. Patron Driven Acquisitions Ready, Fire, Aim

  2. Liberty University • Private university founded in 1971 • Carnegie Classification: Master’s L • Fall 2010 FTE: 43,000 • 12,000 residential / 31,000 online • Teaching university – largest graduate programs Education, Counseling, Seminary • Enrollment (resident and online) and library resource budgets tripled over last five years

  3. PDA Collection Overview • ebrary • Contract signed December 2009 • Pilot from February to October 2010 • Live October to current • Intentionally large, broad-based • Feedback on publisher/disciplinary gaps • Which disciplines would use ebooks • How PDA program with fewer limits would work

  4. Overview cont’d • Budgeted spending of $15,000 per month • Initial agreement $12,500 deposit / $12, 500 per month • Initial trigger was combination of 5 unique usages (unique page views, prints, or copies) • 96K items offered, 53K items loaded • English, < $200, > 2003 publication date • Pretty good deduplication (removed unlimited-use owned titles, some single-user)

  5. 2010 Counter Report 6 – Searches and Sessions

  6. Lessons, Impressions, Questions • Business program unexpected use of books • ebrary destination site with no marketing • Budgets and MARCs can be managed • Expertise of selectors works well with wisdom of researchers • Growing budget but how much? • 10/10/Print-Copy? Leasing? Print PDA? ebrary Profile?

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