[Eril-l] weeding purchased ebooks?

Fri Jan 25 08:14:22 PST 2019

Hi Melissa,

Your question about weeding purchased eBooks is very timely for us! We have been struggling with this for the past several years.

*         As you said, PQ is easy because we change the book to not visible in LibCentral. This works for both purchased and subscription eBooks, which is awesome!

*         With EBSCO, we finally were able to get several purchased titles suppressed by working directly with an eBook specialist. We've been asking since 2015 and were just able to make it happen Nov. 2018. Note: They cannot suppress subscription eBooks. We told them about PQ and asked for the ability to do this.

*         Tracking: Currently we only have a handful of weeded titles, so they are on a word doc with the steps for how  to "weed" them from our knowledgebase and different vendors. I imagine this will move to a spreadsheet or another tracking method as the list grows.

o   In our knowledgebase (Ex Libris) they are still in there as subscribed/purchased, but visibility is turned off. So we have a record in there of having purchased these titles.

Please share if you find out about any other vendors being able to suppress/weed eBooks! Would love to learn more.

Best,

Jennifer

Jennifer Hill
Distance Education Librarian/Electronic Resources Manager
Excelsior College Library
c/o JHU Sheridan Libraries/ELP
5801 Smith Ave. McAuley Bldg, Ste. 310
Baltimore, MD 21209
410-735-4202| jennifer.hill at jhu.edu<mailto:jennifer.hill at jhu.edu>

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Hi, all.

We've now been purchasing (perpetual access rights) ebooks long enough that we're starting to run into the situation where an ebook is old enough to be "wrong" (eg older editions of medical or legal texts), where if this were a print book, we absolutely would be discarding it. I can see in the COUNTER data that even when we've bought the newest edition with unlimited simul users, some patrons are still using the older ones, which could be anything from harmless to fatal.

We can remove catalog records for older editions, but we can't, to my knowledge, remove them from the actual platforms, and anyone who looks at

BR3 (denial/turnaway data on books) knows that patrons seem able easily to find their way to the content on platforms without the help of our catalog records.

The only platform I know of that makes it easy for us to "remove" an ebook from access on their platform is Proquest, which has that nice "visible"

checkbox.

I would like to hear from other libraries who have faced this issue and tried to remove ebooks. What vendors/publishers cooperate and actually remove the book from your account? What do you have to go through to make that happen? What recordkeeping do you do internally to track those requests (eg for auditors)?

Finally if anyone knows of any good publications (articles or books) or conference presentations on this topic, I would appreciate the references.

Thanks!

Melissa Belvadi

Collections Librarian

University of Prince Edward Island

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*Cross posted to multiple lists*

ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management

Session 1: February 25 ? March 22

This four-week online course addresses the basic components of collection development and management (CDM) in libraries. Complete definition of collection development and collection management:

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   Collections policies and budgets as part of library planning

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   Collection development (selecting for and building collections)

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   Collection management (evaluating and making decisions about existing

   collections, including decisions about withdrawal, transfer, preservation)

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   Collection analysis?why and how to do it

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   Outreach, liaison, and marketing

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   Trends and some suggestions about the future for collection development

   and management

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

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   Describe the range of CDM responsibilities and the required skills and

   competencies

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   List the elements in a collection development policy

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   Write a collection development policy

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   Explain the importance of collection analysis

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   Perform one or more types of analysis

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   Explain outreach and liaison responsibilities and be able to develop a

   plan to increase your activities in these areas

Who Should Attend:

This is a fundamentals course that will appeal to anyone interested in the topic with no previous experience.

Instructors

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   Brian Quinn, Coordinator of Collection Development, Texas Tech University

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   Jennifer Arnold, Director of Library Services, Central Piedmont

   Community College

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   Alexandria Arnold, Executive Director, Bernardsville (NJ) Public Library

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   Alison Armstrong, Collection Management Librarian, Radford University

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   Jennifer Matthews, Collection Strategy Librarian at Rowan University

   (NJ).

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   Edward Lener, Associate Director, Collection Management at Virginia Tech.

Registration Fees:  $109 ALCTS Member and  $139 Non-member

The Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management is generously sponsored by Midwest Tape <https://www.midwesttape.com/>.

For additional details, registration links, and contact information see:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/fcdm/ol_templ

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling

1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org<mailto:registration at ala.org>. For all other questions or comments related to web courses, contact Megan Dougherty, ALCTS Continuing Education Program Officer at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or alctsce at ala.org<mailto:alctsce at ala.org>.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*

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