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<div>Although we heavily rely here on DDA, we also still purchase print, but with extreme budget cuts we can no longer afford allocating large sums to the "just in case" method. Just can't do it or justify it; there are too many other priorities fighting their
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#002164"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yes, this is where demand driven models have become a necessity for some of us. Of course librarians can pick valuable books, but valuable for whom and at what point in time? My
library cannot afford to buy every monograph that is good. So, we let patron need drive our purchasing. We don’t buy every single thing a patron requests (if a patron requests a clinical nursing book from 1975, we borrow it) but if it fits the criteria that
we have developed, we buy it, whether it is in print or electronic (those of us with online programs have got to favor electronic for those subjects, despite the fact that many people prefer reading in print).</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#002164"><span style="font-size:11pt;">One area in which we do actively select books is for curated displays to help spur serendipitous discovery. For example, our campus is exploring Metacognition as a strategy for
improving learning outcomes across the curriculum. We’re developing a display for the “staff picks” area of our reading room that will highlight metacognition. We didn’t necessarily have an extensive collection on this one topic, so we’ll buy some newer things
to flesh it out. And we’ll promote eBooks and other online content related to this in our social media. I think this curatorial role will only expand in the future.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Corbel" size="2" color="#7F7F7F"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Kelly Smith </span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>From:</b> Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rick Anderson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 25, 2015 12:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karen Jensen <kljensen@alaska.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] funding for DDA/PDA</span></font></div>
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<div>Although we heavily rely here on DDA, we also still purchase print, but with extreme budget cuts we can no longer afford allocating large sums to the "just in case" method. Just can't do it or justify it; there are too many other priorities fighting their
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<div>This is indeed a really, really difficult dimension of the issue. The question about print books isn’t just whether they’re valuable, but how their value stacks up against that of the other valuable things we have to buy. </div>
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<div>And of course that’s also the question about ebooks, databases, print journals, ejournals, A/V materials, etc. Our job isn’t only to identify and purchase things that are valuable—that’s the fun and relatively easy part—but also to choose between multiple
valuable things when we can’t afford all of them. That’s the difficult and frustrating part.</div>
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<div>Rick Anderson</div>
<div>Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication</div>
<div>Marriott Library, University of Utah</div>
<div>Desk: (801) 587-9989</div>
<div>Cell: (801) 721-1687</div>
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