<div dir="ltr">Our DDA experience at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been similar to Kelly's, in that we don't allocate by subject; it's just one big fund, and we have found that use is pretty evenly spread over the disciplines. It's easy to pull stats from the online vendors, and sort by LC class, so getting subject information is easy to do after the fact, rather than through pre-set allocations. <div><br></div><div>After seeing the success of our ebook DDA program, and now watching publishers pull their materials out or raise prices so that the program is no longer viable for those publishers, I am disappointed to be going back to more liaison selection and purchases. Every dime spent in DDA was money well spent, which I can't honestly say is true for liaisons' choices. I would definitely favor patrons over librarians when it comes to choosing books or ebooks, but DDA was far more efficient than simply gathering suggestions by any method.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Karen Jensen<br>Collection Development Officer<br>Rasmuson Library<br>University of Alaska Fairbanks<br></div>907-474-6695<br><div><a href="mailto:kljensen@alaska.edu" target="_blank">kljensen@alaska.edu</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:24 AM, 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<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></p><div><div class="h5">
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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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