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

[Jill Emery]

Hi All,

We've done a hybrid approach and limited subject funds to nominal amounts
that the selectors have to purchase with and have larger general accounts
for direct faculty/student requests and initiatives. This is how we've
managed to carve out funding for streaming media and more media requests in
general. Our DDA is through our consortia (Orbis-Cascade Alliance) but more
and more both the consortia and ourselves are more interested in evidence
based purchasing models. Subject liaisons were not spending out their
amounts annually and even in this model do not fully expend the $4K per
subject area and $2K per studies area they are given with one exception. We
converted our print UP approval plan to purchasing Project Muse UP
collections with no complaint from faculty and have seen a tremendous usage
of this specific collection strategy across the campus.

We still end up with around $20K unspent at the end of the fiscal year for
purchasing year-end resources.

Portland state is a medium to large sized (20K FTE) public university with
a very interdisciplinary focus and a hybrid (online/in-person) community
based learning pedagogy.

-Jill

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:38 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
>
> Steve Oberg
> Assistant Professor of Library Science
> Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives
> Wheaton College (IL)
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