[Eril-l] weeding purchased ebooks?
Wallis, Lisa
l-wallis at neiu.edu
Fri Jan 25 10:03:29 PST 2019
I would just add that yes, EBSCO, can turn off individual titles. However,
if you purchased any as part of a consortium (as in a cooperative
collection project), the titles would have to be turned off for all
schools. This is causing a weeding barrier for us.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:14 AM Jennifer Hill <jennifer.hill at jhu.edu>
wrote:
> 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!
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> · 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.
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> · 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.
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> 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.
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>
> Please share if you find out about any other vendors being able to
> suppress/weed eBooks! Would love to learn more.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Jennifer
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> Jennifer Hill
> Distance Education Librarian/Electronic Resources Manager
> Excelsior College Library
> c/o JHU Sheridan Libraries/ELP
> 5801 Smith Ave. McAuley Bldg, Ste. 310
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> Baltimore, MD 21209
> 410-735-4202| jennifer.hill at jhu.edu
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> From: Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca>
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> Hi, all.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> checkbox.
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> 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)?
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> Finally if anyone knows of any good publications (articles or books) or
> conference presentations on this topic, I would appreciate the references.
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> Thanks!
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> Melissa Belvadi
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> Collections Librarian
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> University of Prince Edward Island
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> mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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> Subject: [Eril-l] ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Collection
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> ALCTS Web Course: Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management
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> Session 1: February 25 ? March 22
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> 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
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> 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
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> and management
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> Learning Outcomes:
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> At the end of this course, you will be able to:
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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
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> plan to increase your activities in these areas
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> Who Should Attend:
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> This is a fundamentals course that will appeal to anyone interested in the
> topic with no previous experience.
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> Instructors
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> Brian Quinn, Coordinator of Collection Development, Texas Tech
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> Jennifer Arnold, Director of Library Services, Central Piedmont
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> 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
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> Edward Lener, Associate Director, Collection Management at Virginia
> Tech.
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> Registration Fees: $109 ALCTS Member and $139 Non-member
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> The Fundamentals of Collection Development & Management is generously
> sponsored by Midwest Tape <https://www.midwesttape.com/>.
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> For additional details, registration links, and contact information see:
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> http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webcourse/fcdm/ol_templ
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> For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
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> 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email 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
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