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Building upon Susan Swogger’s observation, librarians need to achieve equity/fairness across the disciplinary spectrum.</p>
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Given the extreme variances in cost, use, and potential audience, UNC has created a prioritization model that standardizes for these various factors and allows it evaluate <i class="">all</i> databases in tandem via the use of the following absolute scale:</p>
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</span></span><b class="">Priority 1</b> = Essential (must have): a core resource integral to supporting a program and so necessary that the library needs to fund it if at all possible; the expectation is that the resource will get high use or at least heavy
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</span></span><b class="">Priority 2</b> = Important (should have): a major resource for a program; the expectation is that the resource will get substantial and on-going use among at least its primary audience</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Symbol;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><b class="">Priority 3</b> = Useful (could have): a significant resource for a program; the expectation is that the resource will get appreciable use among its primary audience</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: Symbol;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><b class="">Priority 4</b> = Marginal (would have if funds permit): directly relevant to supporting a field within a program; the expectation is that the resource gets at least occasional use of from it specialized audience</li></ul>
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This methodology also has the advantage of being relevant to any size library.</p>
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<div class="">On Oct 6, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Swogger, Susan <<a href="mailto:sswogger@email.unc.edu" class="">sswogger@email.unc.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Good advice! I’d add that it’s important to look at each DB in context – is it for a small or large group? Is it core to that group? Is its content unique among
your subscriptions? What percentage is being actively used? And the like. If your VPPA is only give numbers without context that’s all they’ll know to look at as a measure of value.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Melissa Belvadi<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 06, 2015 1:44 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thomas, Karen <<a href="mailto:Karen.Thomas@delval.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Karen.Thomas@delval.edu</a>><br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Eril-l] Database cost per use statistics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Scale (as in economies of...) is everything. What is your undergrad and grad FTE?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">You probably shouldn't compare your cost/FTE to an institution that has 50,000 undergrads if you have only 2,000.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Also if you have a professional consortium negotiating your prices, that can very well affect your price and thus your cost/fte.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">We generally have MUCH better costs/FTE for products with consortial deals than those without.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">That said, we're a public university with a total FTE of just under 4,000, a few hundred of which is graduate level, mostly education, nursing, and business.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">If we're comparable to you, contact me directly, and I'd be happy to share at least some of those stats.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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