[Eril-l] CD policy around cost sharing ebook purchases?

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Hi Jessica,

We're in the middle of revising our coldev policy, so thank you for the reminder that I need to add something about cost sharing! The current one is here: https://library.uco.edu/about/policies and the applicable sections are on pages 4 (textbooks) and 5 (ebooks).

For context: we do not differentiate formats for the one-time orders budget, so each department/line can order either physical or ebook from their budget, depending on what makes the most sense for the title, demand, and budget. (Subscriptions are a different budget entirely.)

Also, from the one-time budget we allocate about 3% for the textbooks that we put on permanent reserve (for the largest classes on campus). This is rarely spent entirely, but we've found that the larger allocation ensures we have enough in those years when many of the classes all adopt new textbooks at the same time. And putting them on reserve (a three-hour loan) ensures that plenty of students can use the physical copies.

In regards to cost sharing, so far we've only done that for very expensive databases that have limited demand outside a particular department (*cough*WRDS*cough*).

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We're looking at our collection policy around requested ebooks, specifically textbooks. We have a very small budget for ebooks in total, so we'd like to come up with some way of cost sharing the purchase price with the requesting department.

Does anyone have any CD policy piece that talks about cost sharing, purchases of textbooks, and/or purchase of ebooks in general? We're hoping to find what other academic libraries are doing in this regard when the requests come in for 20 textbooks andd our budget covers maybe one or two of those.

Please feel free to share off-list as well to either jdgr.library at gmail.com<mailto:jdgr.library at gmail.com> or my work address of j.gilbertredman at und.edu<mailto:j.gilbertredman at und.edu>.

Thank you!


Jessica D. Gilbert Redman, MLIS

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