[Eril-l] Kanopy Streaming Videos - PDA program

[Melissa Belvadi]

First, we're very small, just about 4,200 FTE.  That said, in our first
year with the Kanopy DDA, we did not load catalog records for the films,
nor make it particularly visible on our website, but only shared the info
about our account with select faculty who had in the past indicated an
active interest in using videos in their curriculum, including responses to
a faculty-wide survey we conducted about video use in the curriculum that
we did around that same time.
That kept our costs down, in fact too far, so we did finally load the marc
records, and have seen a modest increase, but still affordable for us. But
if you are having the opposite problem, you might consider reducing your
discovery points rather than reducing the actual service coverage.


Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jennifer Bazeley <bazelejw at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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”?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any insights would be greatly appreciated!  Thank you in advance for your
>> help. J
>>
>>
>>
>> -Marcia
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcia Lee
>>
>> Technology Specialist, E-Resource Management | leemarci at gvsu.edu | GVSU,
>> University Libraries
>>
>>
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