[Eril-l] Kanopy Streaming Videos - PDA program

[Jennifer Bazeley]

Hi Marcia,

We have been doing Kanopy PDA for several years, and we have seen the same
increases and trends this past year that you noted. I spoke with someone at
Kanopy about my concerns, and they felt it was partly a result of our
patrons becoming more comfortable and familiar with the platform. In other
words, patrons are now searching in Kanopy for all their video needs rather
than just heading there when an assignment requires them to visit the site.
We're also seeing many films triggered two and three times over the course
of our PDA program with them. The Kanopy rep didn't provide me with any
solutions or options to combat the spending increases, which if they
continue, may be unsustainable for us.

One thing that I did recently was to turn off the "recommend this Kanopy
film to your librarian" feature. We don't have all of the subjects enabled
in our profile, but I was getting a lot of one-off requests from faculty
and students who would find a video on Kanopy that wasn't in our pool
(and/or wasn't available for PDA) and ask for us to purchase it. In some
cases we were able to add those, but not always.

We have not yet removed any of our currently available subjects, but if it
comes to that, we will probably look at usage (on non-triggered films) and
relevance of the subject area to our curriculum.

If anyone else has other solutions, I would also be curious to hear about
them.

Thanks,
Jennifer

Coordinator, Collection Access & Acquisitions
Miami University Libraries <http://www.lib.miamioh.edu/>
King Library 312
Oxford, OH 45056
p. 513.529.4216 | e. bazelejw at miamioh.edu


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:03 AM Marcia Lee <leemarci at gvsu.edu> wrote:

> Good Morning,
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> Since the beginning of the year our library has seen a significant
> increase in invoice totals for our subscription to Kanopy’s PDA
> subscription.  We are now being invoiced monthly, instead of quarterly
> (which it looks like were in 2017) and our totals for the monthly invoices
> are equaling the quarterly ones from last year.  I was wondering if anyone
> else had noticed anything similar?
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> If so, has anyone made changes to their approaches in making these
> accessible?  We currently have all subject categories available for our
> users to access – has anyone begun turning any of these off?  If you have,
> how are you selecting which subjects are hidden and which you are leaving
> “on”?
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> Any insights would be greatly appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your
> help. J
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>
> -Marcia
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> Marcia Lee
>
> Technology Specialist, E-Resource Management | leemarci at gvsu.edu | GVSU,
> University Libraries
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