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Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: UCLan’s experience

Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: UCLan’s experience. Caroline Gibson eResources Co-ordinator cgibson1@uclan.ac.uk  01772 892280. Patron Driven Acquisition at UCLan: Reckless abandon or natural evolution?. Why did we trial PDA in our library?

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Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: UCLan’s experience

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  1. Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: UCLan’s experience Caroline Gibson eResources Co-ordinator cgibson1@uclan.ac.uk 01772 892280

  2. Patron Driven Acquisition at UCLan: Reckless abandon or natural evolution? • Why did we trial PDA in our library? • How did we introduce PDA • What have we discovered? • Where do we go from here?

  3. Why did we decide to trial PDA? National Student Survey “If you could change one thing about the University to improve your experience, what would it be?” “Add more books!” “Library books are not always available when you need them” “Better selection of books in library” “More books related to my course in the library, please!” “There's not many books available for my course.”

  4. Choosing a supplier: Why Ebrary? • Ebrary Academic Complete is our most popular eResource • No need to add MARC records to our Library Catalogue • Continued use after purchase • Collection Management tool looked to be comprehensive and intuitive to use. • Multiple PDA profiles could be created. • Option to offer short-loans and/or outright purchase • In 2011, we deposited £40,000 ($64,080) with Ebrary and also, £40,000 with Ebsco.

  5. Targeting our funds

  6. Creating our subject profiles

  7. Proceeding with caution….

  8. The big launch!

  9. So, what happened?

  10. Pattern of expenditure

  11. Purchase triggers

  12. How do you measure success? COUNTER Book Report 2 Usage: A comparison

  13. What next? • Ebsco PDA trial • Deposited additional sum with Ebrary • Communicating new, additional acquisition strategy to Schools • Reckless abandon or natural evolution? • Top-slicing school learning material budgets?

  14. Introducing Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) in an Academic Library: Blackburn College’s experience Philip Abbott HE Librarian p.abbott@blackburn.ac.uk 01254 292269

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