<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">"...it takes the pressure of finding resources off of our liaisons..."</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">This raises an interesting professional philosophy issue. About half of our librarians are very happy to have that pressure removed, and the other half, mostly the older half, have expressed the concern that a core part of their professional responsibility and expertise is being disrespected and taken away from them.</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">You have to admit that the fact that we've jumped on patron-driven selection the moment it became technologically and logistically feasible does implicitly criticize the work the librarians have been doing for literally decades, since we abandoned it as soon as we had another choice.</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">The conversation becomes even more difficult when trying to present them with hard data, as I have done internally, that demonstrates that about half of the books they selected never circulated at all. They get cornered into making absurd arguments like "it doesn't matter if a book doesn't circulate for 50 years, if I thought it was a good choice, it was a good choice."</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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Smith, Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kelly.Smith2@eku.edu" target="_blank">Kelly.Smith2@eku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#002164">Our philosophy is that if you really want to embrace DDA, you can no longer commit to allocating at the subject level. A few years ago, we stopped allocating for
monographs and now only have one large monograph fund. We feared that we might over-spend or not collect in certain areas, but that has not been born out.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#002164">In addition to eBook DDA profile programs, we also use demand driven acquisitions for pretty much any resource that is requested via ILL. If requests fit our collecting
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#002164">This approach might not work at every library, but at our regional comprehensive university, it is a good solution for us. In addition to meeting the immediate
needs of our students and faculty, it takes the pressure of finding resources off of our liaisons whose time is stretched thin and who are not necessarily specialists in their assigned subjects.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#002164">For now, we still assign subject fund codes to everything purchased for tracking purposes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<span class=""><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Katy Ginanni <<a href="mailto:ksginanni@email.wcu.edu" target="_blank">ksginanni@email.wcu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] funding for DDA/PDA<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our experience with DDA is that it actually spends far less than everyone fears. So we consider DDA purchases as if the liaisons had firm-ordered them for budget line purposes. We haven't come
anywhere close to the scenario you describe. If you have to worry about patrons buying worse choices of books than your liaisons want to select, your DDA profiles are probably too broad.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Katy Ginanni <<a href="mailto:ksginanni@email.wcu.edu" target="_blank">ksginanni@email.wcu.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if anyone out there has come up with some magical scheme or prediction or formula for how to allocate subject or program-based funds to pay for DDA/PDA purchases?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When we started our DDA program, we limited the profile to subjects that would support our distance and/or online programs. We paid for all purchases from one fund. Now we are thinking
of expanding the DDA plan to cover all programs, and we’re wondering how to allocate money from the subject/program-based funds. For print books, we’ve been experimenting with an allocation formula that includes several criteria or factors (student credit
hours per department, # faculty per department, etc.). But we’re struggling with how to factor in ebooks. How can we predict what we might spend on ebooks and what we should put aside for print books? For example: Let’s say the history department gets $15,000
to spend. Halfway into the year, DDA books have eaten all of that allocation but the liaison still has print books she wants to buy.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our usage of ebooks – among all purchases, not just the DDA-initiated ones – is spread across many disciplines. That’s why we are thinking about putting additional subject areas
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.<u></u><u></u></p>
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