This slaid shows the brief info about Patron Driven Acquisition in eBooks acquisition

1. Patron Driven Acquisition
By: Musa Mohamed Ghazali

2. Ebooks @ Hamzah Sendut
Library
 1st eBooks purchased was Kluwer Online
in 2005 with 1,530 titles.
 Currently we have 14 different eBooks
aggregators contains 107,731 titles worth
RM2,765,049.79
 eBrary has the largest number of
collection, about 70,000 titles, currently
subscribed by Serials Division

3. Why eBooks?
High demand in electronic resources
Immediate access through electronic platforms
Multiple users access –no issues of high demand material not
available
No issue of printing restrictions
No issues of market
restriction
Remote access
Enhanced functionality -useful features such as enlarging, linking,
audio….

4. Methods of eBooks Purchase
Firm Order
- Firm
ordering of
e-books can
be on a
single-title
basis or
package of
titles.
Pay-per-
View –
E-book
providers
may charge
a view in
any one of
several
ways— by
the chapter,
by the book,
or by the
section.
Standing
Order –
Order will
continue
until
cancelled
Patron-
Driven
Acquisition

5. Methods of eBooks purchased
by USM Library
One time purchase (perpetual)
-Package- Science Direct, RSC, Springer
- Pick and choose title- Wiley
Subscription- eBrary, Books 24x7
Pay per view – will be practiced by AMDI soon.

6. Patron-Driven Acquisition
 PDA is a model of purchasing in which
the librarians set the parameters of
purchase and patron pull the trigger.'
(JISC Report 2011)
 has been around since the early 2000s
but is only now becoming a serious
contender among the options available
to libraries.
 E.g:
EBL (eBook Library)/YBP , eBrary, eBooks on
EBSCOhost (previously known as Netlibrary),
and Ingram/MyiLibrary

7. Why PDA?
Expand universe of books available
Better use of funds by change in philosophy from
building collections to providing access
Evolving Role of Liaison librarian
Reduces staff time spent on purchasing and
selecting books
Facilitate demand driven access to information

8. Evolution into patron driven
 Collection growth is driven by patron demand
 Budget challenges
 Librarian required to possess diverse skill set
 Explosive growth of mobile devices and
applications
 Technology will continue to change services
and required skills
 Physical space is repurposed and virtual
space expands
(ACRL Research Planning and Review
Committee 2010 -Trends in Academic
Libraries)

9. Findings
 About 40 percent of the books academic
libraries purchase in traditional ways never
circulate and another 40 percent circulate
fewer than three times (David A Swords)
 Usage is much higher, and the cost per use is
lower for PDA methods than for traditional
collection development methods (Rebecca
Schroeder)

10. Benefits of PDA
Guaranteed use for every title
purchased,
Automated acquisitions
workflow,
Instant access

11. Components of PDA
PDA
The
collection
The user
The
library

12. The collection
 The library provides access to user to
a range of material that is the library
has not (yet) purchased or licensed

13. The user
 User to be seen as helping make
more effective purchases. Some
evidence shows PDA acquired ebooks
having more subsequent use than
library selected ebooks.
 50% of e-books bought through
Dawson (eBook Publisher) were not
used (average) – but only 40%
purchased by PDA not used again.

14. The library
 The library sets the parameters/criteria
that must be satisfied to trigger a
purchase vary and a range of free
(browsing) and chargeable uses (STL)
Browsing : e.g .Two pages of each
chapter is browse free
short-term-loan : 1 day , 7 days loan

15. The workflow of PDA
Mediated STL / non-mediated STL / purchase automatically
Request evaluation define
Further access needed?
Users discover & browse
Upload MARC records to OPAC
Pre-selection criteria

16. Pre-selection Criteria
Price limit Publishers
Date of
publication
Subject
categories
Classification
ranges
Keywords
Language

17. Request Evaluation
Automatic
Purchase
eBook unless
content is
specialised or
very expensive.
Then evaluate
for STL or refer
user to
alternative
access
Short term
loans when
use is
specialised,
and needed
short term
(alternative to
interloan);
Refer to
alternative
access where
available

18. eBrary-STL and perpetual price

19. Patron-Driven Access Models
Ingram/
MyiLibrary:
Load catalog
records into library
catalog based on
approval profile:
purchase after 3
hits on the book
Net Library
@EBSCO: Book
is purchased after
1 hit.

20. Issues in PDA
 Librarian should control the library
collection not the user.
 The issue of defining the “use” of e-books
varies from one vendor to another. May
refer to download/print, view/click.
 Quality control of batch load MARC
records for e-books
 Library is more than a shopping site built
to satisfy immediate patron needs
 Sharing among libraries is something that
most eBooks don't allow.

21. Conclusion
 PDA is just another option to develop
a library collection and not as a
replacement for the traditional method.
 The traditional library acquisition is still
relevant to the library collection

22. Free Ebooks on the Internet
 Google Books
 Haithi Trust
 Open Library (Internet Archive)
 Project Gutenburg

23. References
 Swords, David A (ed.) (2011) Patron-driven acquisitions
: history and best practices. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur
 Polanka, Sue (ed.)(2011) No shelf required : e-books in
libraries. Chicago, IL, : American Library Association
 Rebecca Schroeder, (2012) "When patrons call the
shots: patron-driven acquisition at Brigham Young
University", Collection Building, 31:1, pp.11 – 14
 De Fino, Melissa & Mei, Ling Lo, (2011)” New roads for
patron-driven eBooks: collection development and
technical services implications of a patron-driven
acquisitions pilot at Rutgers”, Journal of Electronic
Resources Librarianship, 23:4, pp. 327-338
 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/communityacademiclibra
ries/887739-419/problematizing_patron-
driven_acquisitions__peer.html.csp