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<div style="margin: 0px;">Jennifer (and also Melissa Belvadi),</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Librarians of course must work within the context of what the platform
<i>currently </i>allows, while <i>also</i> continuing to have on-going and frank conversations with publishers/vendors about what is
<i>optimal</i>. (Specifically I spend a great deal of time working with content providers on e-books issues in terms of what works best for libraries and readers, advising them on these matters, and responding to their requests for input.)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">My goal is to have the collections function insofar as possible according to what I call my “Triple A Philosophy”:
<b>A</b>utomatic, <b>A</b>lgorithmic, and <b>A</b>t Point of Need. Controlling costs for a large and rapidly growing DDA pool by triggering mediation at a fixed dollar threshold price on the first STL charge represents the best compromise for UNC in terms
of what the platform options currently exist. Ideally, I want a “Triple A” solution mentioned above and have indicated this to the EBL (along with how I think it would work).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Luke Swindler</div>
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<div>On Dec 17, 2014, at 11:08 AM, <a href="mailto:jsauer@fhsu.edu">jsauer@fhsu.edu</a> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">When you state, "patrons are presented with a “Request Library Purchase”<br>
button to click if she/he wants to continue reading the DDA e-book with a<br>
STL cost of over $50 beyond the free 5-minute browse period." are you<br>
indicating EVERY 5 minute browse will generate this, or only the threshold<br>
browse (i.e. the STL that triggers an outright purchase)? I see the value<br>
of mediation at a purchase point, but not necessarily at the STL point. The<br>
mediation issue stirs up debate in relationship to our primary goals for<br>
DDA which includes making as much content as possible available to as many<br>
of our patrons as possible at the absolute point of need. We (like so many)<br>
have large distance student populations spread all around the world. Even<br>
if we are attending to the mediation "as soon as possible", our students in<br>
China or India are certainly left at a disadvantage to our stateside<br>
students (and on-campus students) simply because we are not present when<br>
they are doing the majority of their course-work and research (time zones).<br>
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This is a great thread - we've been struggling with how to proceed in<br>
"managing" and trying to exert some form of "control" over DDA<br>
expenditures.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Jennifer<br>
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Jennifer Sauer<br>
Electronic Resources Management Librarian<br>
Fort Hays State University<br>
Forsyth Library<br>
600 Park<br>
Hays, KS 67601<br>
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Voice: (785)628-5262<br>
Fax:(785)628-5415<br>
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From:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Swindler, Luke" <<a href="mailto:luke_swindler@unc.edu">luke_swindler@unc.edu</a>><br>
To:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>>,<br>
Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>12/16/2014 02:33 PM<br>
Subject:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[Eril-l] DDA pool: disentangling DDA publisher exclusions from<br>
high STL charges<br>
Sent by:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Eril-l" <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
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Librarians need to disentangle questions about which publishers to exclude<br>
from concerns about high STL charges—especially in terms of not letting the<br>
latter unnecessarily influence the former.<br>
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UNC Chapel Hill Libraries chose EBL as its only DDA provider in large part<br>
precisely because it allows libraries to avoid excessive short-term lending<br>
charges while offering users a robust array of potentially relevant<br>
e-books.<br>
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Even excluding e-books with a list price >$250 from the UNC DDA pool, STL<br>
charges have varied greatly. For a 24-hour checkout period, they ranged<br>
from <$1 to >$70 because of wide variances in both list price and publisher<br>
STL charges as a % of list price. Given that 3 STLs trigger purchase, UNC<br>
could incur >$200 in charges before automatically buying an e-book,<br>
resulting in an extreme case in total cost of >$500 when the purchase price<br>
is added to the STL charges.<br>
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UNC faced with three options for eliminating expensive STL charges:<br>
• Preemptively remove all publishers that had a STL charge above a<br>
specified % of list price;<br>
• Preemptively remove all e-books from the DDA when the STL charge<br>
would be in excess of a certain % of list price on an on-going basis<br>
o Either of these options would not only eliminate titles with low<br>
STL charges in absolute dollars but defeat the primary DDA goal to<br>
“Improve support for the academic enterprise by presenting faculty<br>
and students with a large number of potentially useful and relevant<br>
e-book for possible acquisition” as well as add to UNC’s DDA<br>
transactions processing costs; or<br>
• Move to mediated purchase for e-books when STL charge exceeds an<br>
absolute amount.<br>
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UNC will be implementing a DDA configuration whereby patrons are presented<br>
with a “Request Library Purchase” button to click if she/he wants to<br>
continue reading the DDA e-book with a STL cost of over $50 beyond the free<br>
5-minute browse period. The system emails a notice to the Collections<br>
Management Officer indicating a DDA e-book purchase has been requested. As<br>
a rule CMO will automatically approve purchase—and do so as soon a possible<br>
after getting request.<br>
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Luke Swindler<br>
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