<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">As we finish our first year of EBAs, and renew most of them, I've had a thought I want to bounce off all of you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Our context is that we're a small library and paying the minimum deposit that each of the EBAs allow for a library our size. That sometimes gets us their full catalogue but most often gets us just a portion, like a few years of frontlist or a few most-desired subject collections.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">After the year is complete, we "spend out" our account before renewing with more money for another year.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What that means is that we just bought the most demanded books from that publisher, so they're no longer part of the next EBA cycle.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Imagine looking at a list of the books available in that EBA package sorted from highest use to least. We're cutting the "head" off that list by purchasing them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">So we enter the second year, having to deposit at least the same amount of money again (or even more as some publishers ask for an increased amount minimum), but now the most likely-use books are removed from the pool.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes, patron use varies from year to year, so the second year, and probably the third, we'll probably be able to still get enough use to justify the deposits.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">And yes, hopefully each year the publisher is adding new frontlist books that your patrons haven't seen, assuming your EBA profile is providing frontlist (JSTOR EBA is strictly backlist, for instance).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">But I'm thinking that 3-5 years down the road, unless our curriculum/research programs significantly change, we'll hit the point where we are no longer seeing enough demand/usage for the unpurchased books remaining in that publisher's EBA-able catalogue to justify the amount they want in deposit.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The 80-20 rule for book use is probably at play in here somewhere too.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Has anyone here been in EBA programs for enough years to test this hypothesis?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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