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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I definitely agree your collecting should be user-focused and center on the needs of the local clientele. I should have emphasized in my original message that
DDA/EBA is not a one-size-fits-all solution. We don’t even use it for all parts of our collection. For example, we have a very large music library with a comprehensive collection—DDA would be inappropriate for that collection because of their patrons’ needs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Another aspect of the decision is how many staff and librarian hours can be dedicated to collection development vs. how much needs to be done. While I agree very
deliberate, highly researched title-by-title selection (as Diane described) is ideal, we would need many more hours in the week to be able to do sufficient selection and expend our budget in this manner. Again, the local situation must dictate what’s right
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think we should say:
<i>if </i>your library would like to make the transition to mainly-DDA for monograph acquisition, it
<i>can</i> be done, and well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A">Laurel Sammonds Crawford</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A">Head of Collection Development</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Oberg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 10, 2017 3:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] [EXTERNAL] request for examples of libraries almost entirely non-firm ordering, print and e<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In response to Karen Jensen’s email about differences in philosophy, plus Jill Emery’s followup and maybe one or two others who’ve emailed…My view is, you just can’t over-emphasize the importance of the local context. Yes, it does have
something to do with each institution’s budget (relative wealth or lack thereof), but it also has to do with user expectations and types of education being offered. What I mean by that is that for example, my institution is very much a residential experience
and deliberately so, with no plans to expand into online offerings (other than perhaps in our graduate programs). This colors our considerations about ebooks vs. print.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, my institution tends to be rather conservative anyway but in this regard, at least, being conservative about ebooks has been a good thing. My perspective is that by and large, they are just not that user-friendly and in many cases
are not library-friendly at all, either. I hope this will change over time and of course, we will observe external changes like this, along with changes at our campus user level, and re-evaluate as time goes on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Steve Oberg<br>
Assistant Professor of Library Science<br>
Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives<br>
Wheaton College (IL)<br>
+1 (630) 752-5852<br>
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NASIG Vice-President/President-Elect<br>
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