[Eril-l] looking for group wisdom on Patron Driven Acquisition: limiting by publisher

[Karen Jensen]

When we first started doing PDA for electronic books, we didn't limit on
publishers. After seeing some titles we would never have purchased, I put
in limits by publisher. Then I realized that the actual uses of
non-academic titles was so minimal, that it didn't really matter; the total
cost of these titles was tiny in proportion to the whole. I have left the
publisher limit, but some titles still come through that we would not have
ever purchased in print. It's just not enough to worry about. I guess that
would be my advice; is it enough to warrant spending your time analyzing?
If so, then publisher is an easy way to start.



On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Mary Beeker <mbeeker at nmc.edu> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please let me
> know if I should post elsewhere...
>
> Can anyone share their philosophy/advice on including publishers in their
> PDA collection?
> We've had some rude shocks seeing what is available in our new PDA
> collection.  We're wondering whether to exclude publishers from the entire
> PDA profile, or perhaps to include publishers in certain call number
> ranges, but not in others (e.g. our clinical nursing section)
>
> We're a community college, so we need some intro-level books, but
> reliability is key to us.
>
> If this becomes an interesting discussion, I'm happy to collect responses
> and share them.
>
> Thanks all!
> - Mary
>
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> Northwestern Michigan College - Osterlin Library
> mbeeker at nmc.edu
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Karen Jensen
Collection Development
Rasmuson Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
907-474-6695
kljensen at alaska.edu
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