Give ‘em What They Want:Patron-Driven Collection Development
Hope Barton, Associate University Librarian, Services, U of Iowa
Mike Wright, Acquisitions & Rapid Cataloging, U of Iowa
Kit Clatanoff, Collection Development Manager, YBP
Karen Fischer, Collections Analysis & Planning, U of Iowa
Charleston Conference | Nov. 4, 2010
Our Ebook History
• Vague exploration of e-books across publishers and disciplines (2007-2009)
• CIC 2009 Consortium for Library Initiatives Conference: Off the Shelf: Defining Collection Services http://www.cic.net/Home/Calendar/Conferences/Library/2009/Home.aspx
Off the Shelf: Rick Lugg
Kent Study: Use of library materials: The University of Pittsburgh Study. Books in library and Information science, v. 26. New York, M. Dekker, 1979
Off the Shelf: Lugg cont’d
• 39.8% monographs never circulated during their first 6 years
• For books that didn’t circulate in first 2 years, chances of ever circulating were 1 in 4
• If a book didn’t circulate within first 6 years, chances of ever circulating were 1 in 50
Off the Shelf: Lugg cont’d
• 54.2% of titles purchased in 1969 would not have been ordered if at least 2 uses were established as a criterion for a cost effective acquisitions program
• At ARL institutions, 56% of books never circulate
Off the Shelf: Dennis Dillon
• Among ARL libraries, printed books on median have an 8% chance of circulating in any given year, or once every 12.5 years
• Conclusion: Books are an underperforming asset
E-books, here we come!
• Initial conversation with our friends at YBP, ALA Annual, July 2009
• Full discussion with YBP about our PDA needs, post ALA, July 2009
• PDA pilot with YPB/Ebrary began late August 2009
• From pilot to production, fall 2010
Specifics for PDA
• Ebooks only • Non-mediated approach to title
acquisition by patrons• Instantaneous access to the ebook• Duplication control against ebooks
owned by the University
Specifics
• UI deposited $25K to start• 10 uses would trigger a purchase• PDA pilot would not be announced to
the public• ebrary would provide MARC records
to load into our catalog
Specifics• Initial offering of 100K titles – no
attempt to limit other than de-duplication against ebrary’s Academic Complete set
• Synergies of the Universe: by accident we loaded only 19K titles; this may have saved the pilot
Specifics
• By Nov. 30 (pilot started Oct. 1) we spent $28K on 262 titles; weekly spend amount was increasing
• Clearly this was not sustainable given our finances
• Rather than bail, we regrouped
PDA2: The Fix
• While pleased with user response, the pace was unsustainable
• In conversation with YBP we decided to run the PDA title list against our virtual approval profile
PDA2: The Fix• We had also purchased ebook
collections from Wiley, Elsevier, and Springer; those were blocked
• When the results came in, fewer than 600 titles remained
• Date limitation was changed back to 2005 – boosted number to 9K
Working Pilot – YBP Mechanics
• Bring in PDA titles from ebrary• Profile titles against U Iowa
requirements• Return to ebrary for MARC
information• Titles loaded to UIA catalog
Print Profile Requirements
• 105 Exclusions in LC Subjects• 31 Exclusions in Non-Subjects • 2,000 Exclusions by Publisher/Series• Exclusion of any duplicate editions
Rethinking Print Requirements
• Low number of titles in the initial profiling against print offered alternative solutions:
• Alter the ebook profiling requirements• Adopt an ebook profile to match the
print requirements exactly.
PDA Profile Requirements
• Exclude Academic Complete titles• Exclude ebooks owned by the library• Exclude Popular and Juvenile titles• Exclude LC Classes K-KZD• Limit by price• Exclude specified publisher offerings
PDA Now
• ebrary added add’l titles which went through the same limits, bringing collection to about 12K
• Even though new titles aren’t being added by ebrary for now users continue to buy from the existing stock
PDA – Next Phase
• Development at YBP and ebrary for the next phase of the PDA tied to feedback from our beta partners
PDA – Next Phase
• Use of YBP profiling methodology • Weekly updates to PDA pool based
on the individual library profile • New purchase triggers with ebrary
New Trigger Definition
• Viewing 10 pages of the body of a book in a single session
• Any copy or print • Time-based use of a book for 10
minutes or more
PDA – Next Phase
• Short term loans • Duplication detection • Up-to-date PDA purchase history in
GOBI
PDA – Next Phase
• Ongoing dialogue is key
Usage Analysis• 11-12 months of data for usage and PDA
purchases (Sept/Oct ‘09 – Sept ‘10) • 12,947 PDA titles in catalog | 47,367
Academic Complete titles (subscription) in catalog
• “user session” = how many times a patron uses a book in unique ebrary sessions
PDA Spending
PDA Publishers
PDA Publishers con’t
Amacom analysis
PDA Subject Analysis
PDA Usage – Most used titles
PDA Usage
PDA & Print Duplicates
• 714 PDA titles purchased in 11-month period
• 166 print duplicates (23%)
Print Duplicates Circulation Stats
Print PDA Duplicates – publication date
Total ebrary Title Usage – 11 mos.
Title Usage – most used publishers
Title Usage – average use/title
University Presses – user sessions
University Presses – avg. use/title
Title Usage- Subject Analysis
Most used ebrary titles
Future analyses
• YBP and ebrary will share data – coming early 2011.
• Hope to get better data to analyze the subscription titles from ebrary.
• Statistics will change with ebrary’s change to definition of a “trigger” for purchase (Oct ‘10).
Conclusions & Questions
• Publishers are interested in all the data.• What does PDA mean for collection
management policies? For budget allocations?
• Ebooks data and management - in it’s infancy.• Changes in our collection development
practices• Trust the patron!
Copyright
Copyright 2010
by Hope Barton, Kit Clatanoff, Karen Fischer, and Michael Wright,
This work is copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 License.
See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
This presentation is available at:
http://ir.uiowa.edu/lib_pubs/61/
