"Crossing the Line into Patron-

Driven Acquisitions in the Arts?"

Janine Henri

Architecture, Design and Digital Services Librarian and

Interim Resource Librarian for Urban Planning

UCLA Arts Library

March 2012

Based on chapter titles from:

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: History and Best Practices,

edited by David A. Swords. Boston: De Gruyter Saur,

2011. (Current topics in library and information practice)

Based on article titles from:

Collection Management, Volume 35, Issue 3-4, 2010.

Special Issue: “Patron-Driven Acquisitions: Current

Successes and Future Directions.”

Patron-Driven Acquisitions as

participatory librarianship? “Participatory librarians approach their work as

facilitators of conversation. Be it in practice,

policies, programs and/or tools, participatory

librarians seek to enrich, capture, store and

disseminate the conversations of their

communities.” -- Dr. David Lankes quoted by Buffy Hamilton at COMO 2010 (Georgia Library/media

conference) http://www.slideshare.net/buffyjhamilton/participatory-

librarianship-transliterate-conversations-for-creating-contributing-

collaborating-and-connecting

“You are not a user, you are not a

customer, or consumer - you are a

participant in control of your world and

able to shape your own learning and

environment...

So are those we seek to serve.”

Dr. David Lankes, Reinventing Library Services And

Librarians In The Digital Age.

http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2011/Pitt-Library.pdf

“Patron Choice”

Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot

at UCLA

•Began loading records into catalog on April 5, 2010

•Over 3,000 records loaded by April 30, 2010

•First selection input May 7, 2010

•Over 3,800 records in catalog by July 20, 2010

•178 titles selected between May 7-July 18 2010

($6,600)

•Over 10,500 titles in the catalog by July 5, 2011

•654 titles selected by end of 2010/11 ($45,560)

•As of last week $78,300 has been spent this fiscal

year (in all subjects)

Sample UCLA PDA catalog record

PDA in Arts Subjects

•Titles loaded in to Catalog in FY 2010/2011:

•Arts US: 793 (7.5% of total)

•Arts UK: 22 (.2% of total)

•Arts Titles ordered in FY 2010/2011: 9

•Arts Titles ordered in FY 2011/2012: 105

(as of March 27, 2012)

Issues limiting interest in PDA

selection in design disciplines

•PDA catalog records are still only as good as

catalog records get:

•Designers use catalog records to locate a section

of the library where they can browse

•Designers needs specific kinds of visuals: the fact

that the book is „ill.‟ or has „plans‟ is not enough

information.

•Designers surround themselves with a wide range

of visuals during their projects

On a more philosophical note

• If we do away entirely with subject expert collection

development (librarians/selectors/bibliographers)

might that mean that our users would only ask the

library to purchase the titles they know about on the

topics/designers/artists/architects they know about?

• If so, what would that mean as far as their exposure

to other ideas/works/precedents? (Especially in

academic libraries that support students‟ education.

On a more practical note: • When faculty at academic institutions are not necessarily on

tenure track (or if they are not planning to stay at one institution

long-term), the faculty may be less invested in insuring that the

library develop collections that will benefit students or even their

own research.

• When a new course is taught, if we have not purchased titles

that support the course we get to spend a lot more money and

time filling in gaps than than if we‟d bought the books when they

were first published.

• Are we ignoring the importance of exposing our students to

visual content just when we‟re exploring issues related to visual

literacy instruction?

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