<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I would think that automated removal via the profiles of the books over certain STL cost criteria (we can debate absolute versus percentage as a separate issue) would be LESS, not MORE, expensive in terms of "DDA transactions processing costs" than moving to a system that involves manual mediation for every request that exceeds those limits.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">In general, any time librarians limit ease of access to particular material, whether it be for cost reasons, collection priorities, or professional philosophical principles, it works against that primary goal you articulated. That's just as true when we limit our DDAs to exclude popular fiction and "Dummies" series types of materials.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I happen to work at an institution where standing firm on "big picture" ethical principles with widespread and long-term library "industry" implications is considered a legitimate factor to weigh side by side with the immediate demand of current patrons.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thus we disagree that those pricing policy issues need to be prevented from influencing the exclusion/access issues.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">At the same time, I understand that professionals across the spectrum can agree to disagree in general and in specifics regarding weighing these principles. These are very difficult decisions for every library management team to make, and perhaps the reason that we have professional librarians rather than, as one person suggested to me, turning over library collections purchases to our university procurement office and doing away with acquisitions professionals altogether.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Melissa Belvadi, UPEI</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Swindler, Luke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke_swindler@unc.edu" target="_blank">luke_swindler@unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="margin:0px">Librarians need to disentangle questions about which publishers to exclude from concerns about high STL charges—especially in terms of not letting the latter unnecessarily influence the former.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">UNC Chapel Hill Libraries chose EBL as its only DDA provider in large part precisely because it allows libraries to avoid excessive short-term lending charges while offering users a robust array of potentially relevant e-books.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Even excluding e-books with a list price >$250 from the UNC DDA pool, STL charges have varied greatly. For a 24-hour checkout period, they ranged from <$1 to >$70 because of wide variances in
<i>both</i> list price <i>and</i> publisher STL charges as a % of list price. Given that 3 STLs trigger purchase, UNC
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<i>in an extreme case </i>in total cost of >$500 when the purchase price is added to the STL charges.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">UNC faced with three options for eliminating expensive STL charges:</div>
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</span></span>Preemptively remove all publishers that had a STL charge above a specified % of list price;
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</span></span>Preemptively remove all e-books from the DDA when the STL charge would be in excess of a certain % of list price on an on-going basis
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<div style="margin:0px">UNC will be implementing a DDA configuration whereby patrons are presented with a “Request Library Purchase” button to click if she/he wants to continue reading the DDA e-book with a STL cost of over $50 beyond the free 5-minute browse
period. The system emails a notice to the Collections Management Officer indicating a DDA e-book purchase has been requested. As a rule CMO will automatically approve purchase—and do so as soon a possible after getting request.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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