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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I would just like to jump in to this conversation briefly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m at a very middle of the road mid-sized public university. I looked very carefully at the use of our firm ordered and approval books and compared it to the
use of our ebook collections acquired during the same period of time, and data here just do not support moving to ebooks. If my goal for the monographic information we have available to people is for it to get used, then print books are a better purchase.
Far more titles we buy in print get used than ebooks do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In looking closely at published studies of the use of ebooks (I’m pretty confident I looked at all the published studies), most showed that about 10% of the ebooks
made available to users ever get used. These studies were a mix of DDA and other kinds of packages. People tend to get distracted by the high number of “uses” ebooks get, but it’s important to remember that uses are a mixed bag – you’re mostly shown number
of page impressions and that kind of thing, where you would expect a high number. In reality, in most instances, not many titles get much use. Some people get excited about how much money they save by doing DDA – I get sad when I hear that, because what it
really means is that library’s users just aren’t using books. And part of the reason often is that most people really don’t want to use ebooks, so if that’s all you have your users may go elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It is difficult intellectual work to be a good selector, but not impossible, and with the potential low rate of ebook use you’re almost certain to beat it even
doing a bad job selecting print – if what’s important is getting monographic information into the minds of readers and not just spending as little as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I do feel like I go against the industry when I say things like this, but I get my opinion from a careful study of all the data available to me. I am about to
update all my data, something I’m dreading a little because it was so hard to pull together. Maybe ebooks are increasing in popularity at my institution now. Maybe 75% of our print books are no longer circulating. I’m open to changing my approach to collection
development. But I think in the case of ebooks librarians have erred more on the radical approach in order to get rid of the work of selecting, and don’t really have data that supports it being best for users. Most of the newer librarians I work with have
no interest in selecting, not even when it’s part of their job. That makes me sad. The less of our collection is well-selected and usable, the less relevant it becomes, and the less relevant the library as an institution becomes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am not against all ebook purchasing or all ebook plans, lest you want to accuse me of doing that. My data and knowledge makes me good at making good decisions
about ebooks. Right now I am all about moving ebook money towards EBA plans with the best platforms and university press content – Project MUSE, JSTOR and Oxford’s University Press Scholarship Online are the best value and will get the most use. But moving
to e is really not right for every institution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Amy Fry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Associate Professor, E-resources Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jerome Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Bowling Green, OH 43403<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:afry@bgsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">afry@bgsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">email is the best way to reach me</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><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>VanUllen, Mary K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 10, 2017 3:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] FW: [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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">At the University at Albany, a larger, public institution, we do some of both. We tend to find that students in most disciplines generally much prefer print
books to ebooks. In an ideal world, they’d like to have access to both, but we can’t afford that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Mary K. Van Ullen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Director of Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University Library, LI-328<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University at Albany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">1400 Washington Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Albany, NY 12222<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(518) 442-3559<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> 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>Karen Jensen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 10, 2017 2:55 PM<br>
<b>Cc:</b> eril-l<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] FW: [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">Are we seeing a difference in philosophy here due to the nature of the institution? Smaller, wealthier schools maintaining traditional selection methods and favoring print, versus larger state-funded institutions going for the best bang
for the buck? It is not inexpensive to have a host of subject librarians selecting printed books title by title, nor cataloging and shelving them, whether they are ever used or not. Much of what we have chosen to do has been driven by financial necessity,
but also by patron demand; they want e-books and lots of them, and DDA allows us to make more titles available for consideration - 10 times more titles (or more!) than we could ever dream of acquiring in print. I'm not getting much faculty or student feedback
for print; what print requests we receive, we purchase as requested. But the DDA e-book models are much used here, for the reasons stated above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Rasmuson Library<br>
University of Alaska Fairbanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Steve Oberg <<a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a good discussion and I just wanted to briefly point out that our library has deliberately chosen _not_ to go in this direction. I realize this is contrary to what Melissa originally asked about. We looked carefully at ebook DDA
a few years ago, along with considering how we’d like to handle ebooks vs. print books overall, and concluded that ebook DDA was not well suited to our environment and/or philosophies for collections and user access. So aside from purchasing an occasional
large ebook set (think Springer Nature, e.g.), most of our ebooks are individually selected, and we have specific criteria in our collection development policy for when ebooks are preferred rather than print. Put another way, we still prefer print over e in
the main for monographs. Our subject librarians make most selections with a few minor exceptions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The opposite is true for journals, where we prefer e subscriptions and have a big pay-per-view initiative for journal articles that’s going into its sixth year. In addition, we have had a successful print DDA program for a few years now.<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 <a href="tel:(630)%20752-5852" target="_blank">(630) 752-5852</a><br>
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NASIG Vice-President/President-Elect<br>
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