[Eril-l] FW: [EXTERNAL] request for examples of libraries almost entirely non-firm ordering, print and e

[Karen Jensen]

Are we seeing a difference in philosophy here due to the nature of the
institution? Smaller, wealthier schools maintaining traditional selection
methods and favoring print, versus larger state-funded institutions going
for the best bang for the buck? It is not inexpensive to have a host of
subject librarians selecting printed books title by title, nor cataloging
and shelving them, whether they are ever used or not. Much of what we have
chosen to do has been driven by financial necessity, but also by patron
demand; they want e-books and lots of them, and DDA allows us to make more
titles available for consideration - 10 times more titles (or more!) than
we could ever dream of acquiring in print. I'm not getting much faculty or
student feedback for print; what print requests we receive, we purchase as
requested. But the DDA e-book models are much used here, for the reasons
stated above.

Karen Jensen
Collection Development Officer
Rasmuson Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
907-474-6695
kljensen at alaska.edu



On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Steve Oberg <steve.oberg at wheaton.edu>
wrote:

> This is a good discussion and I just wanted to briefly point out that our
> library has deliberately chosen _not_ to go in this direction. I realize
> this is contrary to what Melissa originally asked about. We looked
> carefully at ebook DDA a few years ago, along with considering how we’d
> like to handle ebooks vs. print books overall, and concluded that ebook DDA
> was not well suited to our environment and/or philosophies for collections
> and user access. So aside from purchasing an occasional large ebook set
> (think Springer Nature, e.g.), most of our ebooks are individually
> selected, and we have specific criteria in our collection development
> policy for when ebooks are preferred rather than print. Put another way, we
> still prefer print over e in the main for monographs. Our subject
> librarians make most selections with a few minor exceptions.
>
> The opposite is true for journals, where we prefer e subscriptions and
> have a big pay-per-view initiative for journal articles that’s going into
> its sixth year. In addition, we have had a successful print DDA program for
> a few years now.
>
> Steve
>
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